All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.
We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.
Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.
The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.