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Buddhism Saved My Life

Steve Rowe

Buddhism saved my life.It’s a toolbox for the mind and emotionsIt’s diagnosticYou look at the symptomsYour fears and anxietiesYour rage and angerYour insecurities and addictions. Then you use mindfulnessTo sustain awareness and concentrationLeading to insight and wisdomEnabling you to drill downAnd find the root causeOf all those problems. The magic isThat when you can see the rootsOnce you know the name of the devilHe can’t hurt youJust by observingWhat they areWho you really areThey go away. Instead of looking at life through a microscopeGiven to you by othersYou are able to see the entire vistaOf life, death and the universe. … Continue reading Buddhism Saved My Life

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Hope Less To Enlightenment

Steve Rowe

You must have hopeYou can’t live without hopeThis is not trueWhen you reach a point in lifeWhere there is nothing leftNothing in the futureNothing you can haveEverything is out of reachNothing you wantNo desiresAs the self diesThere’s nothing to hope forYou are dead insideIn that darknessIn that stillnessIn that silenceLies immortalityUniversal consciousnessThe language of wisdom and insightNormally hidden by wantsAnd not wantsDesires and addictionsWhen hope diesSo does the selfAnd enlightenment arises.By Steve Rowe Continue reading Hope Less To Enlightenment

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Dependent Origination

Steve Rowe

Your DNA goes back to the emergence of life on this planet about 4 billion years ago when simple self replicating molecules occurred. Every part of evolution after that is still inside of you. You have died and been reborn millions of times to become who you are. Every time you feel small or worthless remember how you got here and what you’re made of. It’s all in your DNA, it’s there for you to call on when needed. Dig deep, meditate on every life inside of you, not just human, but every life form, through mammal to reptile right … Continue reading Dependent Origination

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What’s Missing With Mental Health?

Steve Rowe

Are you wanted?How do you know?Talk is cheapOnly actions tell truthDo your opinions count?Do they have any meaning to others?Do you help?Is it paid any regard?Do you support?Is it appreciated?When you speakDoes anyone pay attention?Are others just ‘putting up’ with you?Do you feel ‘trapped’ in any way?Can you change it?If you can’t, can you accept it?It’s important to be in the right placeWith the right peopleOr life loses its meaning and purposeYou feel isolatedImprisonedDepressedAnd when people talk about ‘mental health’They often fail to understandHow many people give upStop taking medicationDon’t seek medical help for conditionsAre happy to just ‘let go’It’s … Continue reading What’s Missing With Mental Health?

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Yang Family (Yeung Gar) Tai Chi Chuan

Steve Rowe

Historical facts about the founder of the Yang family (Yeung Gar) style of Tai Chi Yang Lu Chan are varied and often disputed, but he did teach in the Imperial Palace and also many high level dignitaries. I would speculate that this contributed to his notable skill and his ability to deal with opponents utilising the Tai Chi skills of a ‘soft front and a strong back’, often referred to as ‘a sharp needle, or iron bar wrapped in soft cotton’. He needed to be effective but retain a dignified approach, negating an opponent’s force with a blend of skill … Continue reading Yang Family (Yeung Gar) Tai Chi Chuan

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You’re Enchanted!

Steve Rowe

You’re living inside a witches ‘glamour’ spell. You’re enchanted. Put inside a meat vehicle and subject to the spell’s glamour, you think that life is precious, you think it’s full of love, joy and happiness, not realising that your body is gradually rotting, will get sick and die and you will not be able recognise those glamours without an equal amount of anxiety, anger, unhappiness and pain. How do you deal with this? Life is movement, so sit still, breathe deep and you can get outside the spell, you can see the illusion and when seen, the glamour disappears… Continue reading You’re Enchanted!

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Where Did We Go Wrong?

Steve Rowe

I was watching the BBC series ‘Human’ about our evolution and wondering when we changed from living in harmony with the planet and became the disharmonious, damaging, self inflicting, nasty virus we are today. It seems that it was around ten thousand years ago when we started to change from roaming hunter gathers who only took the minimum of what they needed when they needed it to settling in one place and ‘farming’. We altered, bred and farmed crops and animals to harvest and kill for food and stored the extra ‘for a rainy day’ changing our society and the … Continue reading Where Did We Go Wrong?

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3 Qualities Of A Good Martial Artist

Steve Rowe

Do you want to know whether someone has a deep understanding of their martial art? Here’s 3 things to look for: Are they ‘in’ or ‘on’ their feet and legs? If they are ‘standing on their bones’ they can be easily pushed over, a skilful practitioner is balanced and can drop their weight into the soft tissue in the legs down to the feet by softening down through the body, and push directionally from there. Are their arms driven from the waist? Flapping the arms around is weak, but if driven from the feet, legs and then the waist, it … Continue reading 3 Qualities Of A Good Martial Artist

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Pain & Fatigue

Steve Rowe

You can’t understand if you haven’t been there.You need to walk a mile in their shoes.Or shoe.Or wheel if you can’t walk.You wake up more exhausted and in more pain than you went to bed.Too exhausted or in too much pain to shower or bath.Nausea means you feel like you’re moving when you’re still.Electric lights hurt your brain.Flashing lights and movement give you vertigo.Loud noises hurt your ears.Clothes hurt your skin, any touch is painful.Food hurts your stomach.Any medication has side effects that can make it worse.Pity hurts.Helpful suggestions hurt.Help not requested hurts.Most give up trying to get government help, … Continue reading Pain & Fatigue

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Training With Pain & Fatigue

Steve Rowe

Training this morning with chronic fatigue, chronic arthritis, only one leg and sprained my neck and chest yesterday using a transfer board at an awkward angle to get from wheelchair to car. Was obviously seated, moving with care to not make anything worse and was using my breathing to open and then close all cavities, tissue and joints in the body filling them with energy to assist healing and reduce pain. Turning disadvantage into advantage was using my hip bones against the chair as my ‘feet’ and pain makes me extremely focused, mindful and concentrated, and the sensitivity makes me … Continue reading Training With Pain & Fatigue