Know Thyself

I saw Jet Lee's 'last' movie on Huo Yuan Jia. I think it is a very touching CHINESE movie. It awaken the pride of the yellow skin.

At the end of the movie, Jet Lee told the Japanese martial art master, "The greatest enemy is thyself, and the purpose of martial art is to know thyself." I agree.

If you think deeply, life can be a meaningless affair. You will die the way you were born, and nothing can be taken away. Many things such as schooling, working, marrying, child rearing, sickness, and dying are predictable, and irreversible. We work for our desires, yet we are destined to lose it all.

Yet, all these are externalities. Internally, there is something normally unspoken, that is who we are. We may be fighting for a chance to career advance, and its driven by a desire to succeed. We succeed and become happy, or fail to be disappointed, or do we need to? Overcome our own desire, and we are free to succeed for others. Care not of ourselves, and we became the larger than life. We live in everyone around us.

Before that, however, we need to understand ourselves, penetrate our desires, and liberate them. Fight like Jet Lee as we work, and begin our cultivation from daily life.