And now for something completely different.
Karate brought me to a point that I could understand chi kung (mushin). Chi kung brought me to the point where I could understand sitting meditation (zanshin), Sitting meditation brought me to the point where I could understand the power of prayer ( guided meditation).
None of this is magical, or has any bearing on what anyone does around me, but it has fundamentally changed the way that I live my life.
Here's an analogy: If all I knew about meditation was that it was supposed to enable me to levitate four feet off the ground, I would probably try to meditate as hard as I could for as long as I could, until I burned out and gave it up.
Now, I'm not saying that meditation won't enable me to levitate four feet off the ground when I'm 110 years old. Maybe I will, but that's not why I do it. I meditate because it helps me to see the world as it really is, without emotion and left over thoughts from the past clouding my perceptions and actions.
If everyone in the world learned how to practice the most basic and simple form of meditation there is ( zanshin), from childhood on, there would probably not be much need for prozac and other drugs dealing with ADD etc. , not a whole lot of neuroses, and anxiety.
But there is this artificial perception that "esoteric" disciplines are bullsh#t because in reality, they won't let you meditate four feet off the ground.
Chi kung is not practiced in order for you to knock people down and play with people as puppets for your mind, but rather as a way to learn about your body, mind and spirit, and how to bring them all into alignment. It really pisses me off, that when I talk about this sh#t, I know that everyone is laughing and falling asleep because the only thing anyone knows about chi kung is that it won't help you knock people down with your mind.
What if you where told that the purpose of kata was to learn a set routine of movements in order to defeat 50 people with machine guns. All you had to do was perform the kata and you would survive the hail of gunfire.
What a bunch of fuc#ing bullshit, and kata would become some kind of insane practice in the minds of most rational people.
When I read the "modern scientific anti-traditional martial arts" theories of those people who are now training the military and police forces of the world, all I see is a bunch of reworded explanations for why people should actually practice and respect the "traditional" paradigms of discipline and spirituality.
You know how fuc#ing funny it is to hear people who put karate and kung fu down as some kind of fantasy, and then they start talking about the very aspects of it that no one wants to learn or pass on, like self hypnosis, spirituality, imagination, self realization, etc, etc....
You see no one wants to talk about the fact that people are actually much more than a bunch of muscles and bones tied on a computer. It's only sexy when you use modern commando counter-espionage lingo.
If I ever teach karate to anyone, and that's a big if, the very first thing I will teach is sitting and counting the breath, the next will be chi kung. Maybe that way I won't end up with a bunch of retarded as$holes who will use what I've taught them to f#ck up the world even more than it already is.
(The preceding rant DOES NOT apply to anyone here, but you have to admit there is a lot ignorance and B.S. in the world of martial arts today. Rule number one in spiritual law: Do not put down what someone else does, as a way to make a name for yourself. I didn't make this law up, it is just the way it is, call it karma or whatever.)
.so it's kinda hard to prove 
...........there was a guy on TV recently here who lived to be 100 and said he did everything wrong, he drank and smoked etc...so maybe that could be given as the reason for his long years 
...........I've also been ridiculed for doing so many styles 
