Poetry

There Is A Bully Inside You

Serving the bully is not self-improvement — it’s obedience

there is a bully inside your head it had been there all throughout your life you had watered the bully to grow through your refusal to turn and look at it your own unconscious nature had allowed it to grow so powerful now you got some limited choice either to aggressively obey the bully and take its cheap rewards —call it self-improvement or obedience or to end up being self-destructive for not able to please the bully after all, it’s either everything or nothing or to be conscious of that bully operating in you that cruel internal pressure that forces you to remain as an obedient slave to notice its sheer pressure without falling into obedience to pull it out down to the roots don't expect the bully to become weaker — once a bully always a bully ?— but aim at getting to be larger than the bully “Do not pray for an easy life pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” — says our Bruce Lee which is very much the case when we are confronting this Bull Lee — I mean bully.

“The principle of avoiding conflict and never opposing an aggressor’s strength head-on is the essence of aikido. We apply the same principle to problems that arise in life. The skilled aikidoist is as elusive as the truth of Zen; he makes himself into a koan — a puzzle which slips away the more one tries to solve it. He is like water in that he falls through the fingers of those who try to clutch him. Water does not hesitate before it yields, for the moment the fingers begin to close it moves away, not of its own strength, but by using the pressure applied to it. It is for this reason, perhaps, that one of the symbols for aikido is water.”― Joe Hyams, Zen In The Martial Arts

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