Not everyone wants to learn about chi and not everyone wants to learn to meditate. I asked my teacher why he didn't teach meditation and he replied that most people don't want to learn it. In later conversations he explained that it has a lot to do with the fact that most people can't get into what meditation is and just forget about where they're going to end up.

We currently live in an extremely over-marketed society and you could sum up marketing at one level as getting people excited about a given benefit followed by affirmations - accurate or not - that they have achieved the benefit. Suddenly, they have bragging rights along with an identity based upon the benefit.

Many people talk about "peaceful warriors" to the point that it has become a cliché, not to mention an oxymoron because war is not peaceful. If you are a real warrior, in the classic sense of the word, it means that you're going to have to go out and fight, beat people up, kill them and be involved in war. Now for most people this is terribly unrealistic and not something they want to do. As a matter of fact the majority of people who have to go through war really wish they hadn't.

That said if you want to be a spiritual warrior, at least from an Eastern point of view, you are someone who will fight every battle that has to be won until you become enlightened, giving no quarter to anything inside you that prevents you from persevering. It's a fairly courageous act and one that, frankly speaking, most people haven't got the guts to tackle. The idea is really great. Everyone loves the concept and it's not that the concept isn't wonderful, but actually doing it is rough.

Everything changes. Every moment in time is unique unto itself. Every moment in time carries a shadow of the past and in many ways the future is nothing more than a projection of the past. What happened before is going to happen again, although in exactly what way is hard to predict.

The nature of change is that you have to have the capacity for it. Whether you're trying to go from one Chi Gung movement to the next, from walking the Ba Gua circle to changing directions, going from one meditative state to another or going from one event in life to another, you must be able to change.