Calm is Vital

I’ve been boxing quite a bit these past few months.  I’m a huge advocate for mixing it up, it helps to stave off burnout.  Read more

Focus

What’s up Nak Muay’s?… Oh shnizzle I think broke commenting… with the whole logging system it appears that I’ve reduced commenting by about half.

Things on my end have been slightly hectic. I feel like I’m being pulled in several directions… like I’m doing a lot of things and none of them really well. I think we all go through these periods of funk, in work, training and life. I wanted to write something for Episode 13 but before I new it, the hours in my day seemed to just slip away. Read more

Clinging

As some of you know, I’m a practicing Buddhist. In the Buddhist vernacular we refer to our adherence and observance of Buddhist principles as our “practice”. This is because it is exactly just that, practice. I’ve written a few posts on mindfulness, emotional awareness and meditation.

I haven’t really spent anytime talking about clinging. Clinging is a central theme of Buddhist logic and practice. Clinging and Aversion are the two states of mind that 98% of our lives are caught up in. Our lives swirl between finding things that we like and running away from things we don’t like. When we don’t get the things we want and can’t get away from the things that we don’t want…there are issues. Read more

The Science of Meditation

I stumbled onto this clip the other week. Reason #4 to meditate, you can leave the coat at home! I’m always interested when they talk about the science of meditation. I don’t know what documentary this is from, if any of you know speak up.

This video talks a little bit about the effects of meditation on the body. It would be pretty cool if we could all control our minds to the extent of these Tibetan monks. One of the benefits of meditation that I’ve blogged about before was the use of meditation to relieve stress.

One of my primary reasons for training used to be for stress management. I used to be a pretty high strung person. I mostly train today because, I enjoy and it helps me from getting too fat.

There is a Standford Professor Read more

The Second Arrow

I’ve always had a profound respect for individuals who can bounce back after defeat. This is because I used to find it extremely difficult to do so. I used to run the scenario over and over in my head, usually beating myself up in the process.

My teacher once gave a dhamma talk on something called the Second Arrow. It’s one of Buddha’s more well know Read more

Meditation 101

So I’ve heard some positive feedback about the posts I did on Meditation. Some of you have expressed interests, so here we go.

Meditation is apart of our art. Meditation is an integral part of the study and practice of Muay Boran. Most of the Thai fighters, I know don’t have a daily practice but are aware of it. As the art evolved into a sport, this was one aspect that was trimmed away.

Meditation isn’t unique to Buddhism or Asia. Many cultures and religions have various forms of mediation practice. As I mentioned in my previous post, almost anyone Read more

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