Martial Arts & Religion

Well, I'm kinda sad right now because I was just on Facebook looking at photos of someone who used to be a close friend... until his girlfriend drove us apart with her wild insane jealousy. We can't even be friends on Facebook. It's his birthday in 2 days, and I'll just pretend I don't know.

I'll tell you one thing though. Once we were sitting on a friend's bed helping him with some work, and I was eating ice cream. I offered him some and spoon fed him and he looked at me and said "Why is it you always want what you can't have?" I blinked at him, taken back. Our friend turned around and went "WHAT?" and he innocently replied "I'm lactose-intolerant". He was talking about the ice cream, of course.

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Religion. You know what I want to talk about? One truth, Love. It's true. Religions are different interpretations of that one truth, but they all come back to it. And yet. And yet all this carnage and violence... in the name of religion. I cannot understand it. I've read often enugh in books that some people believe all religions to worship the one God... they just call him/her different names... and choose to worship him/her in different ways. I can find peace in that.

I know it's ridiculous for me to say this, but it's the same with the martial arts. There is no one true, right, martial art. And yet, the novices all still squabble. "My martial art is the best... yours is rubbish!"... and I put my head in my hands and sigh. But as they progres... they learn. This is what my martial art can teach me. If there are other people with other martial arts who can teach me something, I will go learn. I will not stand proud and say "I will not learn from you, you are not of my martial art". Learn what you can from who you can.