Students, I have four principles that will really “bring the rubber to the pavement,” so to speak, concerning the Fitness Program.
(This comes courteously of Dan Millman)
My Approach to Physical Training and the Jedi
There are four ways to deal with the Force in life:
1. Surrender to it, fatalistically. Rocks, since they are inanimate, have little choice but to surrender passively to natural laws.
2. Ignore them and in ignorance have accidents. Humans who lack mindfulness are relatively ineffective. Then tend not to feel their way through the course of life.
3. Resist the force and create turmoil. Socialized man tends in his cerebellums to resist the natural flow of life. Resistance waste energy and results in various systems of illness.
4. Using the force and encompassing it in your training program helps bring harmony and balance. Look to Jedi Knight G and his lecture on the force as water and we are the fish. Like birds ride the wind and the bamboo absorbing the weight of the snow, as it bends; we too can make use of the forces natural flow.
Nonresistance requires great sensitivity and intelligence to allow the natural flow of the force. We find these applications in all different sports and activities. Golfers do not resist the wind but use it to play their game. The gymnast doesn’t conquer the balance beam or apparatus any more than a mountain climber conquers the mountain. With physical training we learn to blend, balance and strive for harmony.
When we train we practice dissolving the resistance, knocking down the barriers. By doing so we find ourselves becoming more attuned to the force, which only enhances our force sensitivity. We may take the training a step further and compete. Competition brings our Jedi skills to the forefront. By doing so we recognize our “needs of improvement,” thus enabling us to solidify our abilities.
The martial arts understand this nonresistance. T’ai chi, promotes the softness, absorbing, neutralizing and redirecting the force. Aikido uses the practice of another’s energy rather than resisting.
Problems of daily life and the life of the Jedi can greatly benefit from nonresistance.
Be well!
Peace and Namaste