Freedom

A tight ropewalker strung a cable between two buildings in New York. His words, I feel I belong to the sky when out on the tightrope I have the feeling of absolute freedom. I breathe slowly and enjoy the miracle of balance. I realized that earlier I had the feeling of fear but no longer, the fear of letting go and then I laughed at it. I am at complete peace on the wire! Out there on the middle of wire I drop to one knee and give the salute of the tightrope walker. There at my feet below is all of New York. Why does he do it? It’s the feeling of complete freedom. Is he crazy some think so?

Do you have guilt and shame of others expectations? Do you judge one another? Do you put stumbling blocks in front of one another to further yourself? Are you free or are you locked in chains or in the harness of life?

Once you have the feeling of freedom you will never go back. No longer do you have to fear what people say or do, it no longer bothers you! Live and breathe life! Live your life with love and compassion.

Like the tightrope walker his feeling of freedom trumped the short time he spent in jail. No one could take away his short time of feeling, complete freedom.

Freedom in liberty, freedom in the country is one thing but don’t flaunt it. What is most important is freedom of the spirit! Which is the only true freedom one can have.

Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com

UBBT Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

Judgment

What is the value in unity we are suppose to work together pull together but we are all different. We come from different backgrounds different parents. I was not raised the way you were raised. You neighbor perhaps their biological parents did not raise them. We have different opinions and different views on things. You may think one way about something and someone else thinks just as strong another way about something. Not that your viewpoint is wrong or the other persons viewpoint is wrong it is just a difference of opinions. Each person is trying to justify his or her opinions. We have different economic lifestyles different values. We differ in our food our entertainment, convictions even being pregidous and we all are just at different levels. Why can’t we all get along? The goal should be that we shall learn to live together in unity we can disagree but why do we have to become disagreeable. The strong person has to give the weak time to grow up and the weak person should not hold the strong person to their convictions. Strong lighten up weak grow up! Mistakes are made we all make them learn from them and move on. Don’t gossip about someone’s mistake you are just contributing to the mistake. The person who made the mistake probably feels bad enough. The gossip is only for the weak it makes them feel strong. The strong put down the weak, so they can gain more power.

Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com

UBBT Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

Conversation

What are your personal advantages when you look inside your self? Are you what you see yourself as, or are you bent on seeing yourself as what you think others see you as. If you worry what others see you as and not be yourself the only person you are pulling the wool over eyes is your own. People have to stand up for what they believe in and stand up for your self. But that does not mean jumping up and down and raising your voice hooting and hollering to get what you want that only turns a submissive person into you getting your own way, that has only given you the winning side to make your self feel good, but you did not earn it through respect, it was only earned through the other person being annoyed with you and can not stand to have a decent discussion with you. Conversations are words spoke back and forth with each side giving their perspective of what is being talked about, if people are to figure out a problem. A discussion is compared to a sparring match the more the emotions get involved the more erratic, misconstrued and out of touch with the reason for the sparring or the conversation becomes. Sparring develops into a brawl. Conversation develops into hollering. Weather a person is sparring or in conversation you should not let emotions get involved, unless of course it is an attack on you personally then it is time to walk away, or better yet learn how to get control of the situation even if it means swallowing crow.

Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com

UBBT Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada