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Shi Heng Yi

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Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

And number three is your diet.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

All these three things together makes a big, big amount of how do you feel on an average day?

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

What problems, mental and psychological and also physical problems are you facing?

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

I do feel like those three areas is something where you can directly look into.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

Let me try to really make it not too complicated for people and especially not too religious for people also, because the Noble Eightfold Path is often related to Buddhism and still many people in this world are believing that Buddhism is a religion or Buddhism is, let's say, a way of life.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

But as for my understanding, in the first place, it is a practice.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

It is a practice.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

And what is this practice aiming at?

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

And therefore, let's jump very, very clearly back.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

What is the aim of Buddhism?

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

Let's say to liberate ourselves, to transcend the cycle of birth and death.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

Why?

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

Because if you don't transcend it, you suffer.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

So meaning, what's the purpose of Buddhism?

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

To not suffer anymore.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

What is the reason why we human suffer?

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

Greed, we want more than we need.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

Hate, we reject sometimes or have resistance against what we are facing.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

But the third one, very interestingly, is called ignorance.

Know Thyself
E187 - Shi Heng Yi: Shaolin Master’s Guide to Self-Mastery & Inner Stability

And now ignorance for what?