Be Like Water? | Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi

you go higher you go even more alone why because nobody is willing anymore to invest their energy in going higher because it's becoming more difficult they say ah it's it's already okay here why you still want to move up there the air is Getting Thinner over there it's getting more hard to breathe it's getting more dangerous whatever so that means along this way the higher you want to go the more likely you're going to walk alone this is the next thing the more you shine the more Shadows you cast a quote from master shangi that captured millions of your guys attention today we break that down with Master shangi at The Shaolin Temple Europe we also talk about emptying the cup and Bruce Lee today's video was made possible at Mulligan brothers. com where we got our film crew out to the sholon temple Eur because of the support that we receive on Mulligan ms. com head to the link in the description and use code 2024 at checkout for buy one get one free across everything right now until the end of the year that includes the momentum or posters the posters that remind you going to die and also the not a journal success journals linked down below where all the profits go back into creating these projects also I want to say massive thank you to everyone who's subscribed and hit the notification Bell there is a ton more amazing projects coming from some amazing guests so make sure you go do that but before that Master shung Yi on the more you shine the more Shadows you cast and also the legendary Bruce Lee let's dive into it there is like a lot of talking points and different things I wanted to go through and um I think I wanted to start with some of the points that we had last year that captured millions and millions of people and one of them was in this exact room and the quote that you said and I I love it and I I I want to get this printed on my wall somewhere but it's the the more you shine the more Shadows you cast yes I make it very uh let's make it very [Music] graspable I have always been a person who prefers Harmony I prefer Harmony if I was with my brother or my father and mother inside our apartment I didn't like it when there is something in the air I didn't like it when I feel when I could sense conflict I also didn't like it when in any group there is a type of conflict and being exactly that person who is normally not talking a lot I always try then to figure out okay what can I do in order to bring Harmony into this group I jump now a little bit but finally also like from my Chinese zodiac I'm a water pick so if somebody wants to find out the qualities of a water pick one of them is I like Harmony okay so it has always been my my my trying out that everybody stays in harmony but on the other side I realized especially now within the last years it's getting an impossible task I just realized for myself what I'm wishing for is impossible which means no matter with what type of intention I'm trying to bring out these things I can very well understand why the suffering in this world according to our Buddha who is sitting behind us he said it is greed hate and ignorance that fits extremely well the thing is I can't change anything about the greed of other people I can't change anything about the hate that people feel I can only change something about myself and yeah and with this sentence I just realized the higher I started to it's a nice picture I felt like walking up a mountain why because the higher I walk the mountain the more I can speak out and the whole valley is going to hear it that's why in a way it makes sense to be on top of the hill because from there if you shout the complete Valley is going to hear it at the same time the higher you climb the mountain the more difficult it becomes to breathe so there's something which goes hand in hand there you want to reach more people okay but at the same time it's going to become more difficult I had the idea I you want to reach more people somehow it's going to it's going to be easier for you because maybe people somehow going to help you up on the way I don't know what type of but it's not like this I realize you go higher you go even more alone why because nobody is willing anymore to invest their energy in going higher because it's becoming more difficult they say oh it's it's already okay here why you still want to move up there the air is Getting Thinner over there it's getting more hard to breathe it's getting more dangerous whatever so that means along this way the higher you want to go the more likely you're going to walk alone this is the next thing and then I think back also in one sentence I always remember again along the way to Mastery you walk the way alone this is not my sentence I think it is a sentence I I heard within the field of martial arts of course you can say why if you practice martial art with all of the passion that you have and other people also have passion then the group becomes stronger it makes it easier for you to stay on this field it is one perspective yes but self-mastery mastering something is always about yourself and if you want to master yourself well you're going to challenge and face yourself and this is happening alone it's also like recently somebody told me uh yeah in case I feel like in dark times you are not alone I don't no let's let's put it like this if this room is completely dark I am alone even if somewhere behind there I see a spark of light I see a spark of hope which is behind there yeah but for me experiencing here there is still the gap of darkness in between me and the spark of hope so around me from me it's dark and I don't have anybody left and right from me so and in this picture meanwhile I really think that to build yourself up to have a certain amount of let's say responsibility for yourself this is why I'm emphasizing all the time in all of these years make yourself strong make yourself strong we all want peace yes but here in our place we not just want to have peace peace full and strong this combination I prefer better yeah another quote that um kind of captured millions of people again was for something new to come something old must go empti the cup yes perfect example like I also mentioned what one of our conversations that I just arrived back from from the travel yes from Montenegro and coming back then to Germany of course I still have like elements and memories of that trip in my mind still as a normal human being wishing they would have stayed a bit longer but as long as my capacity of the mind is there I just can't immerse into what's happening now and it's taking simply away my capacity of allowing even something tomorrow the day after the week after even to arise because I'm still stuck with something that I don't want to let go this is like a practical way on the one side you can really just argue by listen if from the 24hour hours a day you are like sleeping 8 hours and you still have then the rest of 16 hours to invest in something if from the 16 hours you are spending 10 hours sitting there thinking about what how nice everything was a few days ago well is it's it's just blocking you from investing these 10 hours in now starting to do something now or planning something that you want to put into place later this is like simple uh the the simple expression of that and now this is one aspect about why this topic of Letting Go why the topic of emptying the cup is so helpful because it also applies to information flow at the end flow of if you want to learn something new it's just not appropriate to go to a teacher visit any seminar or any Workshop when you already have like a preconditioned mindset or pre-occupied mind while entering into new territory to understand new territory you have to become part of the territory you can't bring your own ideas and values what you think into a new territory and yeah because this is in a way limiting what is possible to to penetrate into you okay and so again also here it applies to this fact it's constant filling up emptying the cup filling up emptying the cup doesn't mean you are not learning or that you're not growing along the way because this is what the cup is doing the cup is growing by doing so but it is the content it is like yes it is like you read a book you read the book and after some time you get the content of the book latest after reading the book 10 times you have the you understood the message from the book but now it's possible you put away the book The Container is not necessary anymore because the message has also went into let's say your system yeah so it's not necessary to carry the book still in your backpack wherever you are going it has become part of you already unless you you are collecting knowledge without putting this knowledge into practice I have to go on to the uh Bruce Lee quote after that so one you know one of the things it the I think we had it printed on a poster when we were younger was empty your mind be formless shapeless be like water my friend that is a nice interview yeah yeah I I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on that particular interview and the quote of you know being light water being formless being shapeless this interview this particular actually when I saw it the first time I really liked his expression about it yeah his facial expression also while saying these quotes and knowing that he also comes from the field of martial arts artist and when I see the way how he's moving the way how he's training that's what it's about this is why I'm saying you know all of these things also what Bruce Lee said before it must be there already in order for somebody to talk about it that's why even this quote yes it is being it was transmitted through the words of Bruce through his being but he just expressed something that he discovered along his personal way how to bring out the proper understanding about your physicality and your mental aspects and nowadays it's the same the principle about how to properly develop your life your body your mind it has also remained the same you're fool Nothing fits in there anymore you're stuck okay you can't move on it's too heavy you put too much in your backpack is difficult to climb anywhere and this is the point about why formlessness is the beginning of everything it's not metab based yeah thank you so much to master shangi for this video if you want to find out more resources from him go down to shin.

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