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Why do you practice? Im not a professional fighter or a person who seeks to find any recognition in the martial world, to sell myself as a fake master to naive teenagers until the first serious challenger comes along.
Nor will being an effective fighter give me anything in life. Not as much as being a good money-maker or a good ladies man would. I therefore often ask myself why I practice.
I could say that its a habbit, back to my earlier days when I believed in the naive legend of the invincible master; who is in fact lonely and trains in a park wearing a dirty pair of trousers. But then so is smoking.
I will also tell you that if I do not practice for two or three days I start to get nervous, but then I feel the same way when I haven't had a smoke. I am ofcourse afraid of the fight when my pride will be on the line, but then who isn't, and then who knows that any of my martial skill will work.
The falsehood of invincibility in its legend not only is taken to be physical but emotion, taht a human being may become so independent that he needs nothing from the world, and that he can wipe off the pain of world like a piece of dust that has fallen on his coat. A hermit wonderful; so I practice to be a hermit. If I look at my lifestyle choices they are also those of a hermit. Ofcourse they're not. I'm as happy as the next person the day you bring me an Armani suit on my birthday. Or even not on my birthday for that matter.
But maybe this is it. I do not want to be a whole hermit, complete with rags and a little shelter in some distant mountain as I practice taiji in a hope to reach infinite life. But somewhere I want my little space where I can go to, where I can retreat to, resource myself, have something, some hobby that is not dependant on everyone else; and in which I feel some form of development and growing understanding of myself.
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