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Archive for August, 2006

I love sparring. I feel so exhausted from today’s sparring session, but the carthic pleasure one gets from it - not to mention the opportunity to hone one’s techniques - is priceless. For any fighter, one needs to give and take a few hits if he wants to progress as a martial artist.
So far I [...]

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Some Workout Plans

I actually don’t enjoy weight training. It’s a lot more boring than sparring with someone, and most workout plans are frankly boring and tedious. However, some are worth doing as time saving whole body workouts that are efficient and allow for at least one day of rest in between sessions. Here are a few you [...]

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Buddhism

Our world-system’s historical Buddha is the Lord Sakyamuni, once called Siddartha Gautama, who left his beautiful wife and child to find a cessation to human suffering. The first Noble Truth he discovered was the truth of dukkha, or unsatisfactoriness. Often it is translated into “suffering”. Unsatisfactoriness is inherent in life. Many non-Buddhists reflexively think this [...]

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Worth of My Fist.

Tonight I will be starting an essay for my course Introduction to Ethics. I find that philosophical egoism is the silliest and most contradictory moral position I have ever studied. Essentially, it is the belief that only one’s own interests and pleasures matter. Only one’s own, no one else’s. Superficially this makes sense. But consider [...]

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