08/02/2023
All your martial arts practice sustains your ego and its illusions. You practice martial art for the survival of the self. The survival of an imaginary ego. Your martial arts practice is never a spiritual quest to get rid of your ego.
If you believe otherwise, is only a fairytale told by this and that, dead or alive teachers.
Anything that you do, only strenghtens the ego.
It is very simple: an illusion can not destroy another illusion.
Martial arts are based on illusions, that is why in taoist and buddhist temples to this day, the old, wise monks look down upon those that practice martial arts.