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Horse, bamboo and wind

Do you sometimes wonder what your body should be like?

Ideally, the human body should be strong like a horse, flexible like bamboo, and fast like the wind!

Why do you think I am writing this here like this?

My whole life has always been about disciplined training, I practice Yoga, Kung Fu, Qi Gong, strength exercises and speed training, meditation and breathing techniques every day.

Even the historical Buddha practiced yoga, he received traditional Asian massages, he meditated, he fasted.

Are you looking for a guide for your body? Imagine how your body could change in the near future, towards a positive state of health. In your mind palace, let your body go through a change, toward the three guiding images: Horse, Bamboo and Wind.

Sure, "you" might remark now that according to Buddhist teachings, everything comes as it should anyway, but if your karma is to improve your health, then it will. Sometimes we humans need a cause, a guiding light, a role model.

Visualize the images in your mind's eye, horse, bamboo, wind.

I received my Buddhist training in the Shaolin Temple China. There the body is trained with discipline and with perseverance. In western culture we know the sentence: only in a healthy body lives a healthy mind (Mens sana in corpore sano)!

In the Chinese monastery strength, endurance and speed are taught, over many centuries the methods were passed on from the master to the student.

What about you? Do you have an idea how your body should be, how it should be, could be in several years?

To what extent do you want to "incorporate" sports, exercise and good nutrition in your daily life, where do you see yourself, your body, your health?

The horse stands for strength!

The bamboo symbolizes flexibility!

The wind stands for speed!

Can you imagine adopting these guiding principles, adopting them as a "motto" so to speak?

Do you want to "be" in a healthy, strong body, have flexible bones and joints, "practice" fast and safe movements?

Health is a very individual concept, each person is different, has different genes, different history. Training must therefore be practiced differently for each individual, always according to their capabilities.

If you manage to "anchor" the guiding principles horse, bamboo and wind in your mind palace, then you are on a good way.

Because one thing is certain, the way is the goal!

We must say what we think, do what we say, and be what we do.

- Alfred Herrhausen - Former Spokesman of the Board of Deutsche Bank 1930 - 1989

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