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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 suddenly, all thoughts have disappeared.

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

So what is it that has happened?

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

Even so, it looks so rigid.

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

But you inside are just free.

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

And this is the first type of understanding that the true freedom is that one that you could even be in jail.

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

Your body is in jail.

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

The important part is, but the mind is not supposed to be there.

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

And out here in the world, it's exactly the opposite.

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

You have the possibility of traveling the world and going everywhere and having so much comfort, but you're still enslaved because of that one.

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

So which one is the freedom?

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

And this is how we understand or what I try to share a little bit in the past that really...

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

going into like a a structured day removes the thinking and when that happens thought free space it feels good from time to time it really feels good this is the whole practice of it and why i also feel like from time to time it's good to make this experience you know

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

Because the alternative is you have 24 hours to freely decide what you want to do, at what time you want to eat, what you eat, and does it make you free?

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

Let's go.

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

So, I mean, André, you asked me, you want me to smash some bricks, which is not a problem at all.

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

But I think I would just like to guide you through a little bit of what is it really that at the end you're putting it all together together.

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

that makes this more easily possible actually to break.

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

Which means, for example, does the breath matter?

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

Absolutely.

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

Because with our breathing, we do have an effect on what in the field of martial arts we sometimes call chi or energy.