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First, I fight.
Then I learn how to fight.
Then I learn why I fight.
Then I learn how not to fight.
Then I learn to heal myself.
Eventually I learn to heal others.
-L. Burkins
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Tonight’s UFC fight between Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez got me thinking about purity. With all of the hype – two monster’s of the cage, the purportedly ‘badest men on the planet,’ facing off in what would be the first syndicated televised UFC event since it’s inception in 1993, I was expecting magic.
What I got was about 35 seconds of haymakers and posturing. Don’t get it twisted – I’m not stepping into a cage with either one – but I went straight home and fed myself on Lee Burkins’ ,”Colorado Internal Arts,” and Bruce ‘Kumar’ Frantzis’ , “Energy Arts.”
For all the reasons we fight: to defend, to achieve, to be heard, to be felt, and to feel; the complete self-honesty internal art demands, creates the kind of growth and healing we know deep inside that we are after.
Sometimes nothing but a thousand years of tradition and education in the search for true meditation can wipe away the disappointment of being built up to a show of commercialized image-dominate fluff.
“Emptiness is not non-existence of the mind. Emptiness is an existent quality of the mind that can be perceived directly through practice. It is this mind that allows transformation. Emptiness, the nature of the mind, can combine with the undifferentiated nature of compassion. Monkey mind is a vehicle for ego entertainment and not transformation.” L. Burkins
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what Love’s will is–it’s good, pleasing and perfect will.” Romans 12:2
Lee Burkins performing ‘Thunderpalm.’
