Comments Thread For: The eight most depressing boxing stories of this miserable October

[Coverdale]

In any given moment you can only do 1 of 2 things...

Choose to do something or choose to do nothing, but the only 2 things you can do, is what you chose to do in the moment before, while choosing what you're going to do next.

There is no past present or future, just an endless series of moments that can run forward, backward or stand still.

It's the secret to mindfulness and being present in the moment.

To actively choose to do nothing at all, be still and observe time and thoughts as clouds entering your view from any direction. Acknowledge them and allow them to pass through your field of consciousness without giving them any mind.

Western thought has a problem with this. We feel the need to constantly choose to do something all the time, to control what we think about and what we do.

Eastern thought can be summed up in the Taoist concept of Wuwei. Doing not doing. Letting chi flow and nature do its thing while you go along for the ride.

Not so much a passenger lacking free will, but in tune with the will of the universe/Tao and letting it show you The Way.

Yes, and this rises all the way up to the political level causing politicians desperate to be seen to be doing something to make terrible decisions about firing missiles into complex geopolitical situations (e.g. the Middle East).

I meditate and only wish I had more time to do so. The plan is to take a year out of work when viable and live in a monastery.

[pollywog]

Yes, and this rises all the way up to the political level causing politicians desperate to be seen to be doing something to make terrible decisions about firing missiles into complex geopolitical situations (e.g. the Middle East).

I meditate and only wish I had more time to do so. The plan is to take a year out of work when viable and live in a monastery.

Sounds crazy, but you know what else is as good as a monastery... Prison.

I treated it like it was. Meditated, practised taichi, qigong, read heaps and learned how to get on with guys who were as far away from pacifist monks as you could get, but a hell of a lot closer to real people, nothing fake about jail.

In there, you can only control what you think you can as there's others whose thoughts and actions you simply can't.

Shịt is as real as it gets. Good times, happy memories...lol

[pollywog]

Fear of incarceration, denial of liberty, removal of freedom is the only control the system and society has over us.

It is the power that enables 'them' to supposedly act in our best interests, to protect us from whomever, whatever, wherever, whenever.

Conquer your fears, face them down, allow them to pass over you as clouds also.

Prison is the best place to do that as it allows you the time and space to control yourself while under the strictest control.

You cannot show fear inside. It gives power to others and allows them control.

Fear inside ourselves and imprisoned by thoughts of weakness is to quote DUNE, 'the little death that brings total obliteration.

I guess that's why i like boxing. Show fear and get obliterated or don't and who knows...