The End of the World? Not for Me and Tai Chi!

Today I’m going to go out on one of my tangents.  Just thought I’d warn you.

How many times have you seen someone make a big deal out of something?  Something that either isn’t all that important, or something they have absolutely no way of effecting?  Not that I’ve every done that of course, but have seen it done… from a distance; that is while standing some distance from my bathroom mirror.

Tai chi is not about reaction, it’s about response.  If you’re crazy enough to study tai chi as a martial art and you try to guess what an opponent is going to do, you stand a pretty good chance of getting it wrong and having to react after their well on their way to kicking your butt, slowly.  If you don’t try to guess, but instead ready yourself to respond to whatever is thrown at you, you stand a much better chance of being effective.

Life is neutral.  It doesn’t care what you make of it, or even what your reactions are.  It just keeps moving along… or not.  Good planning is like practice; it prepares us to respond to what life throws our way.  It’s not fool proof though, so you need to allow for a certain amount of rolling with the punches.  The alternative to this is to either think you have the right answer(s) or to try guessing what’s next.

Apply the tai chi mindset to your life.  Prepare as best you can and be ready to respond to whatever comes your way.  If it’s a Greyhound you’d better be ready to jump out of the way – the bus, not the dog.  If you happen to jump off a high cliff in the process you’re probably on your way out, but if you’re ready to respond you might just get lucky and land perfectly on the upper branches of a randomly placed, perfectly formed evergreen.  It’s not likely, but it has happened before and I can again.

What got me thinking about this deep subject?  Why the great Master of Duhism himself, Bob Tzu.  You see people are getting them themselves all worked up over the coming end of the world.  You know 2012, the end of the Mayan Calendar.  If it’s going to happen I doubt there’s much I can personally do about it.  So I don’t worry about it… much.

You never know what Life will throw your way.  For instance I heard Bob’s insurance agent was giving out calendars, so now he’s my agent too.  He gave me a new calendar and then I noticed he’d marked “vacation” over the first month.  I wonder where he’s going?

Here’s Bob’s Duh of the Day, inspired by his insurance agent. 

It’s too heavy to hang on my wall though

“Okay, everyone can relax now. My Mayan insurance agent just sent me the 2013 Mayan calendar.”

Your thoughts?

P.S.  You too can get Bob’s Duh of the Day by signing up on his site:  http://www.duhism.com/.  I picked up a copy of The Duh of Success while I was there.  Fascinating reading, what there is of it, and it’s worth every penny.  Yep, you guessed it; it’s free.

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