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You are going to learn that your body is important just as your mind is important.

And based on this very basic idea, now it starts.

Now somebody maybe asks, OK, now, yes, I want to develop the mind, how should I do it?

And then, in the Shaolin Temple traditionally we are teaching Buddhist teachings, Confucianist teachings and Taoist teachings.

So three, let's say, teachings aiming in the development of the mind.

So you are reading series, you are reading essays, you are reading different texts,

maybe some of them describing the life of one of these persons, Buddha or maybe Lao Tzu or maybe Confucius.

By putting yourself into the skin of those personalities, you maybe, maybe or maybe not,

get a glimpse of, ah, okay, so this is how they were living.

This is the virtues that they inhabited in themselves, why they are behaving in this, this and that way.

These were some type of virtues that they were abiding to, that they kept as a guideline in their daily life.

That is like where the theory part in a way tries to already offer you something.

Offer you something because at the end of the day it's still up to you to decide

whether you take what you have observed there as something that you think is useful for you, or if you just say, I cannot relate to it,

I don't know what it means, so it's not relevant for me.

This is like in terms of theoretical aspects.

And then at the same time we have the physical practice, which means it is the Kung Fu training, It is the Tai Chi training and it is the Qi Gong training.

And practical means because by doing some type of practice, you get answers.

Sometimes it's answers you didn't ask,

but nevertheless the important part is that through the practice there is some type of information and some type of knowledge

being transmitted to you along the way of practice

that will never ever come in this lifetime if you would only read books.

The knowledge from the practical,

the knowledge from the theoretical, this afterwards you take.

What it means is you You have a field of knowledge,

you have an area that now at any time wherever you are going in this lifetime you are able to access it.

And when are these times to access it?

It is times when you are being placed in a situation where you need to take a decision, for example.

No matter from which country you are coming from, no matter from which culture somebody is coming from.

This whole life is based on the decisions you are taking.

Some people take that type of decision which leads to a consequence,

other people maybe take better decisions which leads to another consequence.

Ultimately it's about the decisions.

But how come sometimes are confronted with the same situation but they take completely different approaches,

they take completely different decisions.

It is because one of them has more or the other one has less access to knowledge,

to experience than the other one.

So what all All of this theoretical learning,

practical learning, what all of this is supposed to offer to you is just a whole bandwidth of solutions,

which we think is very good to have walking through this lifetime,

not only as a martial artist, it doesn't matter from where you come from.

The more possibilities you can access, the better for you.

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But before that, here are my personal favorite rules from Master She Hung Yi from the Shaolin Temple Europe.

Let's dive into the video.

Sometimes in order for you to develop something,

some type of experience, some type of situations are necessary.

So that means this idea of sometimes it needs something really, really emotional. that triggers you inside.

Then a change comes.

Sometimes it's exactly what makes you cry, exactly what makes you confront yourself and what is super uncomfortable.

Exactly these moments sometimes are the ones you should be thankful for

because they carry the potential to unlock something very fundamental inside of you.

Let's say like this.

It is impossible for a human being to walk through this lifetime

without making things that the first time they do it directly go right.

What I mean is everybody will do something which will go wrong, no matter in which type of field.

But after it went wrong the first time, the question is how are you going to continue?

If you are starting to be wise,

intelligent, you are observing the situation.

Why did you make it wrong?

What was the mistake?

What went wrong in it?

If you are confronted the second time with the same situation and you make it wrong again, so apparently you didn't learn something.

And in the way how Confucius expresses this is, making something wrong the first time is not a mistake.

It is your chance to correct it.

But making the same situation over and over wrong again and wrong again,

because you are of the unwillingness to learn something from it. That is the mistake.

That something goes wrong the first time, this is not the mistake.

If you don't learn from it, if you don't observe the situation,

take the knowledge out in order to make a better outcome for the future,

If this is not your trial, if this is not what you're aiming for, then it's a mistake.

So in a way, it is the same that nowadays we are already expressing with the term of

that's why you need challenges.

You will fail definitely a few times.

The question is what will you take out of these failures?

And in the way of people, for example, yes, it can happen that you made in the past,

took some decisions, took some actions that have shaped your present life right now

and also will have an impact on the future.

But we cannot undo the past.

Therefore the question is, what will you take out of this lesson that you have?

You did one thing wrong in the past.

Now it's following me, following you, your whole life long.

My first conclusion is, I need to better take care about what I am involving in.

Message number one.

Now some things you cannot undo, yet there is still the possibility to rebalance things.

And there are different ways how you can approach it.

For example, by doing a lot of charity work.

You did wrong to many people in the past.

Now, do something good for many people where you are excluded.

Let's say, charity work.

Invest some of your time to take care of people that they can benefit from your work energy, let's say.

These are very practical ways that in our tradition we also sometimes make use of.

Charity work, donating.

This is where all of this comes from. Because it takes something.

It takes something from you in order to live this way of life.

Everybody talks about letting go of the self, letting go of the illusion of the ego.

How?

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For example like this.

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Do something that is not for the benefit of yourself.

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Invest your lifetime, a few hours, a few days, every week,

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every month and do something where other people are benefiting from your work.

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This is what I think is a practical way how that maybe guilt that some people still feel nowadays can be reduced.

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Before you were taking now it's time to give.

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When things are rebalanced then you can continue on another path again.

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But before anyone continues, you need to rebalance.

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You want to know what is spiritual.

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You don't approach spirituality.

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You want to know what is spiritual, figure out what is the physical.

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then you will get to there.

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You want to know what is left?

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Don't approach left.

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Figure out what is right.

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And in such a way,

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this is also like something counterintuitive.

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But that is one of the methods.

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This is why you want freedom, we want freedom, yes.

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But how do we live?

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Structured rules, walls, all of this.

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That doesn't look like this would be free.

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Yes, you want freedom?

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Face the structure, face the hard discipline.

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Because if inside this hard structured form, you are able to have the freedom.

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You feel free inside this hard form.

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That is the freedom.

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But to always directly approach what you want is the wrong way.

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Why?

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Because it is one-sided.

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Because it is only one-sided.

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You want success, you directly try to to approach success,

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but it's impossible to have this success if you do not know what that failure is before.

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So now the question is, how do you make this both?

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How can you have this wide view of incorporating everything that is involved in it?

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You need to find a way how to always embrace everything that is involved into it.

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And that's why we say relaxation and tension, they both belong together.

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That's why there's no way.

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I need to know both of them.

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This is not about if you want or not.

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You need both of them.

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Of course we want to have spiritual development.

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But how do we get there?

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by figuring out what is at the moment really accessible to me, my body.

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Because there this is nothing about imagining, this is nothing about fantasizing.

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Your body is something that is available to you 24 hours every day.

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So therefore, because it is so close to me, I can learn from it.

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So we go from the physical to the spiritual.

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And yes, this is where I would say the...

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It's one part of what is existing in this type of teachings.

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What I know is

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when people receive some type of knowledge,

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that knowledge can be very, very powerful.

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There is knowledge out there that just gives you the ability suddenly to see for yourself what you are capable of.

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Now the question for me is, if I would like to run any type of system,

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if I would like to establish some type of structure,

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I don't want that everybody inside the structure does what he thinks he wants to do.

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It just would not work.

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So now the problem is, in the moment where you are receiving some type of knowledge and you for yourself can understand your potential,

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I think it's not wanted.

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So based on that, it was unwanted after some time that the real knowledge,

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that the real methods are being shared to too many people, not just in China, but worldwide.

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I think it's still nowadays like this.

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There is some type of knowledge people don't want that it's getting out there.

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Why?

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Because after you have this type of knowledge, after you practice and develop yourself, you cannot be controlled anymore.

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You cannot be influenced so easily anymore.

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Why?

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Because you see for yourself what you can do and what you can't do.

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You don't need to listen for anybody to tell you what you are able of and what you are not capable of.

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This is what it means to bring out the potential of someone. Which potential?

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The potential to express yourself.

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If you don't realize that potential inside of yourself, what you can and what you can't, other people will tell you.

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Other people will put you in that category where they think you would be useful for.

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But this is not what I think is the intention and the purpose of you living this life.

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I think for all of us living this life means you

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have the right in a way to self-express yourself as long as you don't harm other people along this way.

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So this complete knowledge and at the same time the methods that were strengthening,

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hardening and making your body become a weapon, this combination is deadly for any system.

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You are a good fighter and you are intelligent and wise.

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You know what you are mentally and physically capable of

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and your body is at the same time strong is the worst combination.

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Nobody can tell you something.

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So and this is why it's a big jump right now.

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But there is the time where the practice of the martial arts was forbidden.

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And now based on that I don't want to go too deep into it because sometimes these These are legends,

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sometimes they are fairy tales, I don't know.

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But some movements of the traditional martial arts styles, for example, sometimes you see that it looks like a farmer's job.

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Because it is said that this type of fighting techniques were hidden inside the farmer's job

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because they couldn't publicly practice their Kung Fu.

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They needed to hide their training in, let's say, daily activities where nobody could witness this.

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I cannot tell you if it's a legend or not.

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It's out of question that there are practices still existing nowadays that definitely have some similarities.

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And yes, but the main idea is that there was a time where all of this practical approach was forbidden.

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And yes, and that was at the same time also the point where I think it happened

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that the majority of knowledge that once was hidden inside those walls started to spread into the world.

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And this is why you don't find it anymore where you think it is.

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It may be slowly, it's coming back again.

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But it's still out there right now.

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And like I initially also said, what is another mission of this monastery?

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It's the same like it is 1,500 years ago.

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2. Collecting knowledge, this time it just means we have to recollect it because it's lost. And number 2.

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Educating the youth.

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Educating the youth now it's our novices,

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the master students and the disciples and everybody who in a way is now in contact with this temple. And what goal?

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Give the power back.

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Give the power back that people have.

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Is that humans have the same issues in every country, regardless of nation and culture.

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There are some things that are just connected to being human.

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At the same time I realize that some nations,

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some cultures are very much embedded also in the way of how they were brought up,

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meaning with a very specific type of looking at the world.

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Another part of this world has other ways of looking at the same problem.

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Everybody is looking for the solution of their issues.

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And sometimes there is not only one answer.

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Sometimes the answer from them is correct and the answer from them is correct.

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because sometimes the answer and the solution is based on the person itself.

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I make it maybe a little bit more clear.

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In Buddhism exists for example this idea of reincarnation.

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In other traditions you don't have reincarnation.

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Either you have paradise or you have hell.

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So now somebody might be asking, so who is talking the truth now?

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The Christians or the Buddhists?

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So what of them?

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Either reincarnation or hell and heaven?

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What if both of it would be possible?

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What if the person who his whole life long believed and grew up in this belief system?

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There will be heaven and hell.

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Okay, you go to heaven and hell.

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And if somebody died with the last thought of reincarnation, is possible.

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Why he can't get to that state of being reincarnated?

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Who says there can only be one of those two things?

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Because potential for me means if a human can sink it, it's there.

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And if somebody creates something in the mind between heaven and hell, it's there.

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If somebody creates in his mind reincarnation, it's already existing in the mind as well.

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And so from this example I can just see that what nowadays is happening is that a lot of eastern insights,

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eastern methods for example, on the one side, being more and more exposed in the western world.

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And then it seems like the Western world now is trying to counter with some insights

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that the Western science and the Western culture maybe has developed.

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And I just think both of them are right.

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It would be good to see the connection between...

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The connection, how both of these insights can be brought together.

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Because it just gives you a bigger view.

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And eventually we're talking about the same stuff.

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And not against each other.

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So, and in that sense, very, very glad and very thankful if there are people that are maybe famous out there,

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if they also sometimes share the methods, even so they are coming maybe from another area.

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It only tells me, okay, maybe he got it.

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Maybe he understood that it's the same, it's just, I just speak another language.

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With the way of how I speak, I can reach a certain group of people.

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With the way of how another person explains it, for example Joe Rogan, the way how he talks, he reaches another group of people.

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But what is it that is reaching them?

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A message.

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And this is the important part.

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I don't care how the message is reaching them.

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I want the message to get out.

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In the recent times, for example, when I looked at different interviews, there is one word which like starts to, maybe it seems like it,

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but it pops up more often, which is the warrior.

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It pops up a little bit quite often and of course you can be a mental warrior meaning you're always strict,

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you're always strong in the mind, you keep going.

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Yes of course this is something that you need but at the same time taking it a little bit more literal, a little bit more martial,

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it also means a warrior that you at the same time have the physical abilities to interfere.

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A warrior is sent.

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A warrior has or feels the obligation if something is out of balance out there, I'm gonna fix it.

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Or you try.

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And if you try and you fail, you try harder next time.

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But you don't give up on that statement that you're giving to yourself.

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So in that sense, and especially that the Shaolin warriors are embedded in the field of martial arts,

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the full picture is you need to have a capable body.

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But if I would express it like this too often, maybe there will be a group of people that say,

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yeah, but I can't anymore because of this, this and this issue.

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So how can I still participate in the Shaolin teaching?

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You can, of course.

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That's why I'm telling this the whole time that it's not about this martial aspect.

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But if you want to have a glimpse into how in the past Shaolin warriors were living,

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why they were called like this, it's possible to find it out.

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And that means you are using methods to bring something out of the body that the average person does not have.

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It's not only that you are physically able.

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It is something very strange.

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It is something that inside of you, you access something different in you.

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There is a famous saying which is called Guishou Foshin.

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Demon's hand, Buddha's heart.

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It's an old Shaolin saying.

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Develop the demon hand while at the same time maintain the Buddha's heart.

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Demon and Buddha, you might say they are both very two different sides.

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Yeah, you need both.

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You need both.

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Demon hand, demon heart, no good.

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Then you are going to become a threat for this world.

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demon hand, Buddha heart, to be able to access something and then decide upon your heart whether to use it or not.

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I think this is what we're looking for.

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And the physical abilities is important of course but there's more to it.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “The 7 Rules To Become Unshakeable”. This video has 311 sentences and 3633 words to shadow. The speech runs for 31:53. The speaker talks at a steady 114 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 90% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
warrior noun	/ˈwɔɹi.ɚ/	A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
martial adjective	/ˈmɑɹʃəl/	Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
reincarnation noun	/ˌɹiːɪŋkɑː(ɹ)ˈneɪʃən/	A rebirth of a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body.
demon noun	/ˈdiː.mən/	An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
nowadays adverb	/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/	At the present time; in the current era.
rebalance verb		To balance again.
confront verb	/kənˈfɹʌnt/	To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with.
theoretical adjective	/ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/	Of or relating to theory; abstract; not empirical.
observe verb	/əbˈzɜːv/	To notice or view, especially carefully or with attention to detail.
poster noun	/ˈpoʊstɚ/	A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
insight noun	/ˈɪnsaɪ̯t/	A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
embed verb	/ɪmˈbɛd/	To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
undo verb	/ʌnˈduː/	To reverse the effects of an action.
motivate verb	/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/	To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate.
checkout noun	/ˈt͡ʃɛkˌaʊt/	The process of checking out of a hotel, or the latest time to vacate a room in one.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
get out verb	To leave or escape.
pop up verb	To come up with a "pop" sound.
walk through verb	To explain (something) to (someone), step by step.
bring out verb	To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality).
bring together verb	To cause people to do something together; to bring about togetherness.
bring up verb	To mention.
come along verb	To accompany.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Let's dive into the video.
Why did you make it wrong?
The question is what will you take out of these failures?
Before you were taking now it's time to give.
You want to know what is left?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if both of it would be · if you think it will motivate
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being transmitted · being placed · is based
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	practice, which means · something which will · person who his
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have observed · have shaped · has developed

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 36 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/, thankful /ˈθæŋkfəl/, bandwidth /ˈbændwɪdθ/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: martial /ˈmɑɹʃəl/, reincarnation /ˌɹiːɪŋkɑː(ɹ)ˈneɪʃən/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, relaxation /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/, illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
Long words — get the stress right: reincarnation /ˌɹiːɪŋkɑː(ɹ)ˈneɪʃən/, theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, counterintuitive /ˌkaʊntəɹɪnˈtuɪtɪv/, inhabited /ɪnˈhæbɪtɪd/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like warrior, martial, reincarnation.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?