Among all the noble spirits, there is one that is the most important. Without it or wanting it, all other noble spirits will perish. Elites become elites because of it, civilization is maintained and developed because of it, it is courage (for individuals) and martial spirit (for the race). Nordic mythology gives the best interpretation of this spirit: faith cannot change fate, and believes that bravery is an indispensable responsibility for everyone - "A person's first and eternal responsibility and value is bravery and integrity. When he faces cruelty and ruthlessness, When faced with a certain fate, one must put terror under his feet and move forward bravely to fulfill his manly responsibilities, risking his life and fighting endlessly; bravery is the foundation of every enthusiastic person, otherwise his thoughts will be wrong and his behavior will be despicable. He will be abandoned by the gods like a coward who does nothing, and will not have the chance to enter the temple of Odin. "Yes, a man should and must move forward bravely, like a real man - calmly trusting in the work of the supreme destiny. arrangement and selection. In short, be fearless. The degree to which a person overcomes fear will determine what kind of person he is - now, in the future, and forever!

The process of birth of life is actually a process in which the bravest competitor wins - among millions of sperm swimming towards the egg, only one can be fertilized. Therefore, each of us is born as a winner, and bravery is the nature of our lives.

Bravery and martial spirit are really the spiritual sublimation of the most powerful survival instinct, and are the pearls among all noble spirits. The two are always connected with vitality and are the most abundant expression of the earth's spiritual energy in the human body. However, with the development of human beings, the progress of civilization, and the consumption of the spiritual energy of the earth, human beings have also developed towards the pursuit of sensory pleasure and material enjoyment - the most prominent of which is excessive indulgence. And these, without exception, are eroding the courage and vitality of people and races, and then wiping out the noble survival instincts of people and races. Races and individuals who have lost their martial and brave spirit will sink without exception. History is the last Good proof.

The broad sense of bravery and martial spirit is reflected in the spirit and quality of initiative, pioneering, expansion, conquest, enterprising, leadership, dominance, and manipulation - not only in the three-dimensional geographical expansion, but also in the three-dimensional space of geography. Expand the abstract intellectual space in three dimensions; conquer not only the physical world in reality, but also the spiritual world of virtuality. In a narrow sense, martial arts generally refers to a brave and warlike character - human life is actually the result of fighting, and warlikeness is human nature. However, with the development of civilization, people always tend to choose peace (peace is actually the most important thing in the civilized era). disease).

Bacon once said: "If any country wants to be great, the key point is to have a nation that is good at war." Yes, "the same nation or country cannot be both a lion cub and a donkey carrying a heavy load: a nation or country cannot be both a lion cub and a donkey carrying a heavy load. It is impossible for a nation trapped in taxes to become brave and warlike. And most importantly, if you want the country to be strong and to extend its authority, the people of a country must regard military affairs as the only honor, knowledge and profession in the world. - Please refer to Sparta and Rome. It is true that all the excellent races in history have entered the stage of history as conquerors and masters (you will know when you look at the history). Their common denominator is to be martial and warlike. Characteristics. Moreover, the historical fact is that the race and country that maintains the martial spirit the longest can often create the myth of a thousand-year empire; on the contrary, the loss of the martial spirit is actually the main reason for rapid decline.

Pericles once said: To be free, you can be happy; to be brave, you can be free. Obviously, bravery is also the spirit that is most respected by a race to achieve happiness and freedom. “You can find the greatest rewards for bravery. "The best and bravest spirit among men," is indeed true. The most powerful races and countries in ancient and modern times are the first to respect the spirit of bravery and enterprising spirit. The eternal theme of history is war, and peace is the preparation stage for war - Germans It speaks the honest truth. All races and countries that dream of permanent peace will fall into the abyss of decline, failure and destruction. "Whoever wants peace must prepare for war" - it is true, there has always been peace. It is peace "under the protection of a sharp sword." A Chinese sage once said: If you don't forget about danger, you will always be in danger if you forget about fighting. , is not only related to greatness, but also related to the life and death of a race and a country for thousands of years.

Once a race begins to lose its martial spirit, the self-destructive mechanism begins to activate - corruption and degeneration are its external manifestations. The performance is accompanied by the loss of the spiritual energy of the earth and the decline of the noble blood. Indeed, before the descent of the bloodline, there is first the degradation of the spirit - especially the martial spirit. The race that has suffered from self-destruction has been abandoned by God. Please look at history. A scholar’s ??description of the Byzantine Empire at dusk:

“This nation has become a twilight weapon, without initiative or will. Before the emperor and the church, they crouched in the dust. When their backs were turned, they could not help but stretch out their fists and stamp their feet. Above is tyranny and oppression, below is hatred and cowardice. Both the government and the public are full of cruelty and hypocrisy. Appearances replace real culture, and corrupt language hides real ideas. All political and social organizations are equally rotten, and the national spirit has aged and lost all initiative.

Under the cover of false patriotism, everyone only focuses on selfishness and profit, while ignoring public welfare. "——This is a true portrayal of an empire that has declined for thousands of years.

God is fair to a race that has hurt itself to the extreme and does not know how to rise again. This is true to an old Chinese saying, "Only when you save yourself can God save you." ! What awaits the fate of a race that is extremely decayed is destruction. “A race that is willing to degenerate is shameful! " Indeed, "the defeated have no right to bargain" - this famous saying of the Gaulish chief has left many ethnic groups in later generations recalling it endlessly. Let's look at the heroic words of the Romans: "The Romans are accustomed to using iron to save their motherland, rather than using iron to save their motherland." "Gold"! How heroic and heroic, this is worthy of a great race, and only such a race can build a glorious thousand-year empire.

The Holy Roman Empire, which lasted for thousands of years, experienced too much suffering : The Thirty Years' War, the invasion of foreigners, the peasant uprising, the schism war between the old and new churches, etc., and the First French Empire pushed Germany to the edge of greatest humiliation. Please refer to the German policy of Napoleon I. Germany seemed to want to It was permanently sunk (after the defeat of Prussia and the signing of the Treaty of Tilsit). However, there was a rebirth in the ashes, first the awakening of the German spirit, and then the reform of Prussia - it was the martial Prussia. Became the spark of Germany's rebirth. Finally, in the smoke of victory in the Battle of Sedan, we witnessed the glorious rebirth of the great German nation. "It either rises in humiliation or perishes in humiliation." "It is well said that great races will create miracles in a thousand years - and the prerequisite for miracles is spiritual revival.

Indeed, spiritual and cultural revival is a sign of the activation of the regeneration mechanism. And The implantation of a martial spirit is indeed the key to spiritual revival - it can be said that without Prussia's martial tradition, there would be no modern unified Germany. "Building a country with force and returning to the pre-Qin era" will be the slogan for the rebirth of the Chinese empire. This requires an Eastern Renaissance and religious reform. Also, please don’t forget that at the most humiliating moment for the German race, Germany still produced the great Goethe, Schiller, Fichte, Hegel, Trecht, Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, Clausewitz, etc., the birth of a creative culture and social organizational order marks the completion of the rebirth mechanism, and the key decisive element in all of this. The most fundamental reason: the return of spiritual energy and the rise and awakening of noble blood. There is a Chinese philosophy that expresses the principle of qualitative change: things must reverse when yin rises and yang declines. This is when the spiritual energy of the universe and heaven and earth "failure". It will also be the time when the spiritual energy of the earth returns. If it cannot return, wait for the next thousand years. When the noble blood is completely submerged, it will be the time when the excellent blood reappears in the life space. It is divided into two dimensions: tangible and intangible. The tangible life space contains various instincts, which is the nature of human beings and animals. The invisible life space also includes two levels (sub-dimensions): value space (can be equated to intelligence). Space) and soul space. The former determines the destiny of a race in this world, and the latter determines its destiny in the next life (the destiny of the next thousand years). Races will be born in the second level of the second dimension (the soul space in the life of invisible beings). The seed of rebirth can be one person, such as Moses who led the Jews out of Egypt, or Cyrus who set Persia on the path of imperial race; or it can be a group, such as the founder of the American nation before independence, but it can be resurrected deep in the soul of the race. Of these seeds, there is only one greatest one, such as Washington, Caesar, and Alexander. Without the fire of rebirth ignited by the seeds of rebirth, it would be impossible for the race to achieve a phoenix-like rebirth. These fires of rebirth are genius-type elites. , the noblest among racial bloodlines. Their spirit comes directly from the soul of the race, and they are actually equivalent to the soul of the race. Without them, the race will have no hope of rebirth and can only sink. But with them. , the race will win a glorious rebirth - the deeper meaning of rebirth is to reshape the soul.

The genius elite reshape the soul of the race, which is to recast the spirit of the race, thus laying the foundation for the next thousand years of the race. This spirit of rebirth is the spirit of martial arts in a broad sense; its basis is the character of bravery and war.

In the far west and in neighboring Japan, two kinds of martial arts have been formed. Warlike Spiritual Traits: Chivalry and Bushido Chivalry maintained the glory of the Middle Ages for a year and gave birth to the great Gothic architecture and art - the Middle Ages were called "dark" - because of the Pope. It unified Europe (Western Europe) in a religious spirit (the complete unification of the second dimension of life space closed the intellectual space), but the Middle Ages will become and will become the ideal paradise in the hearts of people in the industrial age. Here we think of the novel "The Disappearance of horizon". With the introduction of Chinese technology (cannon, gunpowder, compass, papermaking, shipbuilding, etc.), medieval castles collapsed, chivalry declined, and the civilian class began to rise. At the turn of the millennium, Western Europe encountered an opportunity for regeneration. Western Europe did not miss the opportunity, and the beginning of greatness came from Germany. The genius of the revival was Luther—the Puritan spirit spawned by the Protestant Reformation was the source of the great capitalist civilization. We cannot fail to mention here Marx and Weber and his handed down masterpiece "Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". Weber was indeed a genius. He discovered the essence of the spirit behind a civilization. Martial arts in the living space truly transferred to the intellectual space. Martial arts - this is the essence of the rebirth of the West.

In the development of intellectual space, the second dimension (wealth space) is used as the starting point and main force, which in turn drives the expansion of the other two dimensions, knowledge and power. The conquest of land also shifted to the conquest of the ocean. With the opening of new shipping routes, the ocean became the passage to the new continent. A group of British people had no choice but to take the initiative to colonize. Unexpectedly, it was the harbinger of the birth of a new world. Through the expansion of intelligence and living space, the civilization of Western Europe was able to break through the narrow limitations of Western Europe and replicate its own civilization in the vast new continent. It can be reasonably predicted that as the next millennium approaches, Western civilization will also face the challenge of regeneration or destruction. The four-dimensional geographical expansion into outer space and the transformation from intellectual space to soul space will be the key to regeneration - if this regeneration cannot be completed, humanity will eventually destroy itself due to technological civilization. Remember, when the next millennium comes!

Therefore, our choice should not be to simply copy Western civilization like Japan and South Korea. We must prepare for the next civilization after rebirth. But we cannot leapfrog technological civilization. We should first copy technological civilization like Japan and South Korea, and at the same time be committed to creating the next civilization - this is the tone we set for our choices in the next millennium. The premise of creation is the return of the earth's aura, and opening up a second living space geographically is the key to retrieving the earth's aura - Germany sank because it could not defeat the Soviet Union. And water is the source of life, and it is the carrier of the spiritual energy of the earth (the other is soil). Therefore, for China, developing the west and returning to the place where its ancestors lived is the first step to achieve a thousand-year rebirth. Without water, the earth's spiritual energy will be closed; with water, the earth's spiritual energy will be open to humans. Water is indeed the most important strategic commodity. For this reason, the Shuotian Canal-Great Western Line project, which will bring water from Tibet into the arid northwest of China, is truly a genius creation—it is not an exaggeration to call it "rebuilding China." Unfortunately, only a few knowledgeable people have seen its long-term value and significance in the future. The target of the second step is the Far East and Siberia. Lake Baikal is the source of life for the future of the Chinese nation. The two primitive and undeveloped lands are the main source of China’s resurrection aura. They are also the ideal place for China to expand its life and living space and resettle its surplus population. land. Lake Baikal should become a sacred lake in the hearts of the Chinese - a gratifying thing, the inferior Russians did not realize its huge long-term value. The third step is to move towards the vast universe and the mysterious soul space - perhaps in the latter space, human beings can obtain eternal life.

The first step is to absorb the living space and the spiritual energy of the earth. This is the crucial key to rebirth. The first step can be completed within the existing boundaries. But spiritual martial arts is still the key among the keys. We must not forget that "the victory of the strong over the weak is an irresistible law of nature." Yes, God prefers the party with strong material strength, but material strength can only rely on Only spiritual strength can be achieved. The sages have long said: Countries that do not simply engage in martial arts do not need to hope that they will suddenly become powerful; on the contrary, those countries that have been martial and warlike for a long time will achieve great things. This is the most reliable lesson of history - please refer to Rome and the United States. A martial race will never allow the word "shame" to be placed on its honor; and even if there is no legitimate reason, it must find suitable excuses to prepare for war at any time. Similarly, just as exercise is good for improving physical fitness, war, uninterrupted justice and glorious war are very helpful in enhancing national power and strength. It is necessary to explain that this kind of war must be a war of external conquest rather than a civil war. —Rome, the British Empire, Prussia, the United States all did, and the United States still does. Indeed, peace is a common problem in the civilized era. Peace helps to weaken the survival instinct of a person or a race. The blind pursuit of peace makes human beings morally corrupt and demoralized. It is also the beginning of self-mutilation - when a race begins to pursue peace at all costs. , the self-harm mechanism begins to activate. ? The great Hegel once said: "Just as the wind helps to clear the dirt from the ocean, war helps the ethical health of mankind that has been corrupted by long-term peace." It is really a wise saying that all degraded races and empires will They are "peace-loving", but the result of true peace-loving is without exception, destruction. Romulo's message to the Romans was: Only by advocating force can one become unparalleled in power and dominate the world. Therefore, the Romans, who have maintained the longest tradition of martial arts, created a thousand-year empire of world civilization - and became one of the most civilized empires in later generations. Role model. Sparta's state institutions were all set up for the purpose of war. Later examples include Prussia. What was the fate of the two? God made them great. In China, the only example is the Qin State. Shang Yang's reforms turned the Qin State into a militaristic country. The martial spirit became the primary virtue and the source of honor and status. (Military merit comes first, and titles are awarded based on military merit). The result? It was Qin who unified the six countries. If Qin is still dissatisfied (by annexing six other countries) and can still maintain its policy of expansion and military expansion, Qin will not die in its second generation. For a martial country, expansion is its ultimate mission. The day expansion ends is when the martial spirit declines - please refer to the Han Empire. There is an article on martial arts in "Collection of Bacon's Comments and Hearings", which is very good. The civil war is the most prominent external manifestation of self-mutilation, especially the emergence of uprisings and revolutions of the lower classes, which bring this form to its climax.

In the spiritual realm, there is the closure of the intellectual space and the degradation of the second type of human instinct, returning to the first instinct (the soul space retreats to the instinct space). The spirit has come to a standstill, the will has declined, and the people have returned to an era of near ignorance. Another outstanding manifestation of self-mutilation is the strangulation of the spiritual traits of martial development, enterprising, and innovation. The instinct of indulgence replaces the instinct of survival, and the noble bloodline begins to degrade. This is the sunset of the race or empire.

Throughout history, the establishment of empires, the creation of great achievements, and the prosperity of races have always used the method of military conquest to conquer the will of the conquered to resist and thus open up a broader living space. result. In other words, it is an axiom of history that empires are built and defended by force rather than by peaceful means (which can only play a supporting role). It is an indisputable fact that new things have the strongest vitality. To achieve rebirth is to create a second life. Strong vitality has an innate impulse to expand. The martial spirit is an external expression of the impulse to expand. Its essence is: not afraid of war or death. Life is precious, and so is individual life, but there are some individual lives that are even more precious, which is the survival of the race - this is the sacred responsibility of individuals who cannot be afraid of death. We find similar examples in the animal kingdom. Honor can cultivate the martial spirit. "It is better to live in pieces than in ruins." "I would rather die with a sword in hand than be destroyed in humiliation." "A soldier can be killed but not humiliated." Honor is more important than life - this is the spirit of martial arts. (Responsibility and honor over life are the twin cores of the martial spirit). Compared with the eternal value of racial survival, the humble body of an individual is insignificant. For the sake of faith and ideals, the throwing of personal blood can make personal value Realize eternity. A noble spirit can never endure humiliation forever. If so, the noble spirit will exist in name only. Without a noble spirit, life is worse than death for a noble and dignified person. Therefore, one must defend one's honor at all costs, and the same goes for the race and the country. The example of Rome is: if a peace treaty that damages the honor of the country is not accepted, even if the field consul or military governor has signed it, the Senate will annul it, because they understand that the dignity of Rome cannot be violated in the slightest. Rome was able to develop from a small state to a huge empire. In addition to various internal and external factors, the Romans' spirit of treating honor as life cannot be ignored. It is not that the Romans have never suffered humiliation, but this can only double their proud ambition, and in the future they will redouble their avenging for themselves. This is the key to Rome remaining strong. When Rome could not avenge itself - such as the Battle of Parthia and the Battle of Teutoburg Forest - Rome's spirit would inevitably decline, although it would take centuries for people to see clearly. Under the aura of the Spartans, who can't think of the Helots? A race that lacks a sense of responsibility and honor, and thus loses its martial spirit, is what we call a slave race; the fate that awaits the slave race is to be conquered and enslaved. Unfortunately, our Chinese nation has been in such a situation many times. Why? Lack of martial spirit and will to conquer.