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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

That already removes the idea of what nowadays, let's say, I just felt like is propagated, that it's a one-directional, it's a one-direction street where it's about better, higher, more beautiful, good, health, growth.

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

Yeah?

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

That is one part of the truth.

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

What about the second one?

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

And there I simply feel like

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

It is you're creating your fantasy in your mind how this life is supposed to be.

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

Then you're being faced with the reality of how life on earth right now really is.

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

And then you're wondering why you're having such a difficult time.

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

It's because you focus all the time on 50% of the truth.

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

You had a preference.

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

You had a preference for the gentle, nice and pleasant things.

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

And one area of Shaolin spirit, like I said, is again, we need both.

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

It's not just that we need both, we are going to face both.

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

That's where you also, no, it's not just the Shaolin spirit.

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

The Taoists way before that, they have the yin and yang symbol, right?

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

Even other religions, other cultures, they have the devil and the angel or the demon and the Buddha.

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

Two sides of the same coin.

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

So how do you translate this two sides of the same coin?

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

Yes, this is you.

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

It's the same of what's happening nowadays also in the world where to the public you show the glorious and shiny side of you.