In past posts I wrote about my best training day atop a rock in the Badachu Park while traveling in China.
These pictures are from that day also.
You'll notice the hill behind the temple in this first picture.
The perfect spot to do my Neigong Training.
The temple you see there houses a relic of the Buddha.
His TOOTH to be exact.
The whole process to get to see the tooth was a challenge.
Apart from waiting 4 hours in line and finding an appropriate gift to offer as sign of respect, fighting for position in what felt like being in a "mosh" pit to get in the front gate, once we got to the main doorway everything got really... quiet.
Definitely something worth doing if you're in China in the future.
I mean seeing the tooth was ok, but being there and thinking of the thousands of people (if not millions) who stepped into this place, revered the tooth, who held it, worshiped it, protected it over thousands of years.
As we stood at the very top level of the temple of light (the one you see in the first picture), all crunched up in this small room reciting words of respect in chinese, one word flashed in my mind and struck me:
BELIEF
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and bring himself to believe, he can achieve"
All these wonderful temples and places I've visited were all built by men and women who believed.
When building and protecting YOUR own temple (i.e: your life and everything it entails), make it strong, beautiful, and rewarding.
Believe in Yourself.
Build a strong body and mind.
Set the example for others around you.
Use the fighting spirit of the martial arts to fuel any project or goal to its completion.
I'll be back with more tomorrow,
Master Yourself,
Sibok M
These pictures are from that day also.
You'll notice the hill behind the temple in this first picture.
The perfect spot to do my Neigong Training.
The temple you see there houses a relic of the Buddha.
His TOOTH to be exact.
The whole process to get to see the tooth was a challenge.
Apart from waiting 4 hours in line and finding an appropriate gift to offer as sign of respect, fighting for position in what felt like being in a "mosh" pit to get in the front gate, once we got to the main doorway everything got really... quiet.
Definitely something worth doing if you're in China in the future.
I mean seeing the tooth was ok, but being there and thinking of the thousands of people (if not millions) who stepped into this place, revered the tooth, who held it, worshiped it, protected it over thousands of years.
As we stood at the very top level of the temple of light (the one you see in the first picture), all crunched up in this small room reciting words of respect in chinese, one word flashed in my mind and struck me:
BELIEF
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and bring himself to believe, he can achieve"
All these wonderful temples and places I've visited were all built by men and women who believed.
When building and protecting YOUR own temple (i.e: your life and everything it entails), make it strong, beautiful, and rewarding.
Believe in Yourself.
Build a strong body and mind.
Set the example for others around you.
Use the fighting spirit of the martial arts to fuel any project or goal to its completion.
I'll be back with more tomorrow,
Master Yourself,
Sibok M
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