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we all know how Cus D'Amato's proteges faced their fearFear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when you’re hungry, give you light when you are in the dark, and produce energy. Let it go out of control and it can hurt you, even kill you….Fear is a friend of exceptional people.”
- Cus D'Amato
how do most TCMA students address this essential issue?
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By comforting themselves with reassuring compliments.
You can have Kung Fu in cooking, it really has nothing to do with fighting!
Banned Li Fut
What is fear?
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
~ Mark Twain
Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.
~ Joe Lewis
A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it.
~ Author unknown
"You don't feel lonely.Because you have a lively monkey"
"Ninja can HURT the Spartan, but the Spartan can KILL the Ninja"
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How can a man know fear, when he feels so comfy wearing silk pajamas?
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I have heard something like this. "We all have fear. How to deal with it is the difference."
http://johnswang.com
More opinion -> more argument
Less opinion -> less argument
No opinion -> no argument
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Most kung fu students dont deal with fear. Their thinking is along the lines of "I dont wanna know what its like to get hit, so Il just tell everyone I train for health.
Actually training for "self improvement" should involve a lot of getting hit, that is overcoming a fear which can transfer over into other aspects of life, whether its fear or public speaking, fear of quitting smoking etc etc
Moo Moo
Fear is nothing more than fear itself.
Some people like to say that fear is a beast or a demon.
Fear feeds upon fear. It grows like a tumor.
We acknowledge its existence and move on.
Do not feed the fear with more fear.
Or cut it out or off with a surgical blade.
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The larger fight is internal. Only by confronting our fear and knowing ourselves can we hope to truly succeed in the fight that is life.
As Sun Tzu said in "The Art of War":
"
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
"
Be more, do less
Oneness of self
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
-Patanjali Samadhi
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."
~ Bodhi
Never miss a good chance to shut up
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