One Bold Reason to Live
It’s a bold and courageous act.
It’s so courageous that few people pull it off.
It’s simple, it seems…but it’s so hard to do and — it’s even tougher to keep up.
It becomes complex.
Take off your Mask of Boredom.
People and cultures and advertising and your most intimate social network all try to trap you. Your Tai Chi school or your parish or your drinking buddies will try, one day or another, to weigh you down with…
You can’t.
It’s impossible.
You’re not ready.
You’ll hear one of those, or something like it. And the idea, coupled with your belief in it, the philosophies surrounding it, and all the circular, intellectual arguments for it, will keep you from the one bold act.
The One Bold Reason to Live….
To Experience Awe and Wonder
First: take off your Mask of Boredom.
All around you everyday, colleagues, coworkers, friends, and loved-ones act crabby, put-off, angry, submissive, and ignorant. Rude people radiate rudeness and it’s catchy. It’s easy to catch it. But it’s not brave and it’s not powerful. To reflect and refine crankiness only reinforces it.
Removing the Boring, Submissive, Bitter Mask breaks patterns and stirs anxiety. It’s tough.
It leaves a wake of emptiness. Because crabby and ignorant and submissive give you permission to bitch and complain, removing the Boredom Mask is tough. You don’t have to…you can keep on acting ignorant and timid.
To take off the Mask of Boredom takes guts.
Taijiquan and internal arts (like Qigong and Baguazhang) offer frameworks for breaking the Boredom Mask.
It requires combat experience.
Breaking the Mask of Boredom won’t happen with relaxing, soothing self-assurance.
You have to break something.
You have to gain confidence to smash beliefs and ideas and all those little mantras of submission.
I’ll show you what I mean. Stick around.
After you smash the Mask of Boredom: Put on your Mask of Wonder.
I’ll go over that too…soon.
