You have to defend yourself, your family, friends, village, town, and city. If you don’t do so enemies will take what belongs to you and will destroy you. So wake up now! You will learn skills, tactics, discipline, strength, and survival wisdom. You will learn how to become you again with lots of energy and agility. Enjoy the ride and get intense. It is your time to shine, compete with nobody but yourself.
Become Intimate with Fear to Overcome
Here is what we must do in moments of hardship and difficulty. To overcome fear become intimate with it. It is not a problem to be solved, instead, it is a tool necessary to dismantle familiar structures of being, in order to learn and create new ones. Since bravery is not the absence of fear; one has to use it in times of fear to redirect energy and use it to undo old ways and bring forth a new creation. This practice will continually humble and give no room for the arrogance that develops by holding on to ideals. Our own courage to step forward a little further will continually shut down the arrogance that inevitably arises. We will in the process find discoveries that are made through practice and have nothing to do with believing in anything but developing the courage to die, the courage to die continually. Sincerely our deepest strength arises in the hard work of befriending ourselves; which is a mechanism for befriending life in its completeness. We have to expose ourselves over and over to annihilation to discover what is indestructible.
Things fall apart as a test and healing, though not a test to pass or to overcome the problem, but to get things not really to get solved but to come together before falling apart again. We should understand that things come together and fall apart again and do the same over and over. Life is just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
It is on the above premise that the most basic loyal disciplinary measures and skills every one of us must accomplish as a self-defense mechanism are established here… Next page
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