Shi Heng Yi
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Your matters are the peace of the world.
This is not about
You are beyond yourself.
You're greater than yourself.
That is very closely related, I think, to what greatness means.
The reason why we suffer throughout this lifetime is because we want to be someone.
I had parents that came as refugees from Vietnam, running away from war with the idea of finding safety in a foreign country.
Do your education, get a proper job, earn some proper money.
That was the idea of my parents.
Nevertheless, with the age of four, I got acquainted with the practice of the martial arts.
I can do all of these things.
I'm a high achiever.
But this one?
Never satisfied.
Yes, on the outside it looks great.
There, it doesn't look great at all.
No matter how I felt, there was literally nobody I could somehow share with.
So I just kept it for myself.
Everything I started building up started to crumble.
Then I was sitting there and asking, and then what?