Taking it Personally

Tatsuo Sensei believed in the Way of Gokui. He practiced many actions that opened to the possibilities. He even talked of what leads to brutality and conflict. This is the true path when practicing the fighting arts. To practice it with esoteric values to achieve the true way of the Warrior.

We are lead to conflict by one very simple action, we take it personally! Every conflict humanity engages in is a direct result of a person taking action because they have felt that some slight was taken against them "personally."

We may have to accept an action but we do not have to accept it personally. We don't have to accept it on a personal level ever. We have to understand that because we are exposed to some action that it is not required we receive it on a personal level. It is there and there is nothing we can do about it but accept it because it is in that moment. We don't have to make it personal; we don't have to take it personally, we can consider it a problem of the other person who took the action. We can "choose" to NOT TAKE IT Personally!

Actions that can have an effect on us simply do because we happen to be in the vicinity when they occur. What we can do is tell ourselves that "It is not about me!" We can do this each and every time until be believe it and smother the ego's tendency to tell us "its personal."

This is the type of mental training we must master to become the consummate warrior of the fighting arts and a warrior of life. Just imagine if all peoples of the world decided to never take anything as "personal" that all the conflicts of the world would cease.

When that day comes then I will shift my singular practice of the fighting arts to the art of calligraphy so that I may follow the Way by another singular means.