When we feel inadequate or unworthy, we want to hold on to what we have, afraid of feeling worse than we do already. The cause of our aggression and fear begins to dissolve when we move past this poverty of holding on to things, both physical and mentally.
When you compete, study your competition for their strengths and weaknesses and place yourself strategically. A competitor trains their body and mind to perfection, seeking to eliminate as many of their own vulnerabilities as possible.
Our path in life is to live in harmony with all others, the environment and oneself, to live in synchronicity with all things and to be completely authentic, sincere, and natural. The ancient teachings provide us with a practical guide to an alternate way of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
If we remain at the mercy of moods, of hope and of fear, aroused by the outer world, we lose out inner consistency of character. Then our experiences are merely effects produced by the outside world, not experiences evoked by our own true nature.
Quote: You master nature not by conquering it, but by becoming it.