I am consciously and unconsciously processing frameworks, ideas, ideologies, concepts, methods, systems, etc., and… Throwing them out one by one. Maybe it started with that Buddhist quip about the people at Dharma Drum Mountain “Why do they pray to Guanyin? They’re not even enlightened!”

I honestly hadn’t thought about Guanyin much since “waking up.” I did take my brother to Longshan Temple and bought a little bracelet but… I was kind of operating on autopilot with that.

Guanyin’s not a buddha huh? Fair point. Hmmmm… Maybe I should pray buddha then? But… Not an Asian one… I can make up a new one with new lore… A Black Panther Buddha… Yeah… That’s the stuff!

That bounced around in my mind for a few days. After the Juneteenth event… I was ready to let go of that too… Let go of the ❤️🖤💚 too (although I do like my spin on it).

Yesterday, I went looking for the “Be water, my friend” video clip of Bruce Lee. I just wanted that clip to upload to Facebook, but I couldn’t find it. I tried finding a YouTube downloader and it didn’t work (I assumed that was going to be an issue with a lot of them). Figured Gemini would be able to help me and it totally did. Found me the whole ass interview! Fuck it. I’ll just upload that. Then I ended up watching the video and I got some gems that I hadn’t “heard” before (I probably have but wasn’t ready to hear them).

One thing he talked about was how hard it is to be your authentic self. Like a fight! Now, he didn’t connect this next idea in the video, but surely he has in his philosophy.

He talked about not having a fighting style because the style can become a trap! It’s better to borrow and put something together special for you.

Me, in idea, etc. dropping mode got me like “OH!” I don’t want to be any of these labels people place on me or… THAT I PLACE ON MYSELF! I just want to be open, listen, learn, absorb what works for me, and get rid of what doesn’t. I’ve heard that from Bruce many times but… I’ve never applied it to LIFE. Just the martial arts (BUT I APPLY MARTIAL ARTS TO LIFE ALL THE TIME! WHY DID THIS TAKE SO LONG! 😭😂)

Being formless… Shapeless… He was hitting on a totally different level. I mean… Maybe not. Maybe I was just ready.

Two things I’ve said for a long time when people want to know how to be “formless” or live life “effortlessly”. You can’t be formless until you’ve mastered form. You can’t be effortless until you’ve put in a lot of effort (into the right things!)

There’s a shedding taking place in my mind.

I do three (four including work) things.

1. Refine and teach tai chi
2. Refine and teach Flowism
3. Make content
4. (Teach English and AI)

I’m not interested in anything unless it’s related to those things (as far as energy into my life’s work goes). This means a lot of the books I have need to go. Even more than I originally thought.

There’s obviously leisure stuff, and that can contain a lot of extra things, but as WORK (my work, my life’s work) goes, a lot of things are about to get dropped.

Note: I tried to get Gemini to make an image based on this and it gave me Black Panther Buddha for some reason… Whatever. I’ll take it. 😝😂