The Martial Mind Power & Martial Arts Philosophy Podcast

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan, "The dragon and the woodcutter", found on page 304 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - Bob Bremer shares a fable told to him, nowhere else for the first time,  by Bruce Lee. - Bruce lee"s "Hammer Principle" and why he taught it to remove preparation. - A demonstration of...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan, "When the student is unready, the teacher disappears", found on page 333 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking."   Highlights include:   - The different variations on the student and teacher being ready to meet each other and ideas on how to manifest the right teacher for yourself. - JT share...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "Human Musk Deer", which can be read here: https://www.martialmindpower.com/human-musk-deer/ Highlights include: - The spiritual and mystical meanings from the analogy of the musk deer, its pouch and jumping off a cliff. - A story of the 3 gods and the place they hid their consciousness. - The different ways people l...

ep32 In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "The biggest ego trip going, is getting rid of your ego", found on page 490 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - why the increase in muscle or fat could be because of the  wounded inner child - how people's wounded ego shows up in the fitness and health space - the am...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "I think, therefore I am"", found on page 226 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - insights from a workshop that Lak did with his students based on a famous scene from enter the dragon. - insights from heart-lab studies - what are mirror neurons and the self? - the mind-blowing...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "Life is a zero-sum game", found on page 572 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - Newton's law of conservation - energy is never destroyed or created, it just changes form - How society is set up for consumerist and capitalistic tendencies and otucomes - How are we approaching...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss  today's koan: "Not human doing, human being", found on page 634 of Lak's  book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - How a human being turns into a human "doing" - How rites of passage into adulthood depends on one's life situation - How the busyness of life makes adults forget about their inner...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "Be a bee", found on page 198 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - Forget positivity and focus on the nectar in your life - The value of creating community to extract more goodness from nature - The amazing finding behind what community does to human longevity - Teamwork, harmo...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "dancing a dream awake", found on page 152 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - The biggest obstacles people face when trying to achieve dreams - Transmutation, manifestation and bringing dreams to life - How does partiality and totality apply to one's dreams coming true - The...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "sochu-geiku, kang-geiku", found on page 656 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: – How temperature is used in Japanese dojos as a means of increasing intensity of training – What is the spirit test that JT encountered whilst in ju jitsu class – The different levels of reflection...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "Tao Yin", found on page 452 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - the exploration and explanation of energy, chi or prana - why all energy is kung fu - the purpose behind the opposing and complimentary nature of energy - how to use, direct and channel your energy for consciousn...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "Avoid Loneliness, Strive Aloneness", found on page 168 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - the differences between loneliness and aloneness - aloneness as a means of self improvement - the 3 key points why people come into your life - the different types of teachers in your l...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "Atomised Relationship", found on page 494 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - the importance of nurturing the seed of brilliance within you - the flaws of a reductionist approach to life, partly accelerated by tech - the metaphor of driving a car vs experiencing it just as nu...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss standing up for a righteous cause. Also covered, the koans: "spineless backbone" and "man in the arena" , from "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking"book. Highlights include: - Martial arts teaches us enough to not want to fight - Dealing with fears, anxieties and challenges - The 3 things that martial arts teaches you - How marti...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss  today's koan: "Consciousatarian", found on page 119 of Lak's book, "The  Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - Life lessons learnt from a spiritual awakening - Experiences after shedding animal based foods and going vegan - The ethics, history and practicalities of eating flesh and fish - The rise of...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss  today's koan: "Lunar-tic", found on page 388 of Lak's book, "The Art Of  Thinking Without Thinking."   Highlights include:  - A discovery of the effects of the moon during Lak's meditation  - The link between moon, water and the body  - Calming feelings and wild influences of the moon during meditati...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "Crisis or cry-sees", found on page 410 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - Why a personal crisis is so destructive and destabilising to the real you - The flight, fight and freeze response in relation to helping and healing others - Why suffering is like re-reading the same c...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "Work on the root, not the fruit", found on page 700 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: "your purpose is not your goal" There's GPS but what about identifying your CPS (cosmic positioning service)? The instant needs of modern age vs the measured response of purpose The value of...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "Innocence is your inner sense", found on page 632 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - the perspective of how we choose our life before being born - having different  experiences dependent on your senses - the "sixth" sense of a baby and how they go in and out of the spir...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss  about the power of community, leadership and empowerment to take on more  healing for yourself, others and the environment you surround yourself  in. Highlights include: - Insights gained from differences between face to face and zoom interactions - the number 1 reason for people living past 100 but also dying youn...

http://talks.martialmindpower.com 3rd Degree Black Belt, Martial Arts Instructor Carl Hodgetts was born with two debilitating diseases - Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. His parents were told that he would not live more than 12 months. He went on to defy the odds, by learning how to walk using a frame by the age of 2, swim and play a guitar by the age of 4, having survived septacemia twice and endu...

http://talks.martialmindpower.com Martial Arts Champion & Instructor, Bouncer, Bodyguard, and Best-Selling Author Matt Stait was a sickly, scared little kid with asthma who was diagnosed with PTSD, and horrifically lost his father to suicide. With all the pain and suffering he endured as a child, he had to learn how to stop fearing fear itself. He discovered a way to conquer his fears through...

http://talks.martialmindpower.com Two Time World Gold Medal Champion in Tae Kwon Do, Martial Arts Trainer, and British Army Paratrooper Kevin Bennison is a two time Gold Medal Champion in Tae Kwon Do, a Martial Arts Trainer and a British Army Paratrooper, and has clearly got mastery at what it takes to win on the mat. However, life has taken its' twists and turns in his relationships and career, a...

http://talks.martialmindpower.com Eastern & Western Medicine Specialist, Martial Artist Nisha Rani is a martial artist and has been studying ancient eastern and modern western medicine for the past 11 years, soon to graduate from Medical School. Through her journey, she had a profound discovery connecting martial arts and east-west medicine, linking body, mind, emotion, and spirit through the...

In todays episode, co-host Jatinder and Sifu Lak choose and discuss today's koan: "Inside out, outside in", found on page 558 of Lak's book, "The Art Of Thinking Without Thinking." Highlights include: - Developing maturity to combat negative external forces - Influences on the teenage mind - Developing the maturity to know yourself and say no thank you to conflicting influences - Developing your "...