The Fight

To be clear I did not see the McGregor/Mayweather fight and I will not be seeing it either. However it is interesting to hear what the fighters say about their experience. And we must always hold reservations and not firm up opinions about these fights or about the color of their skins because we never know if these are fixed fights, meaning if the fighters were in an agreement about the outcome of the fight, as arranged by their handlers. And you do not know the past life history as to which color was the skin before.

This means that whatever this guy says may be totally skewed. However my interest in this has to do with observing how we evolve using violence though various species of life. I took my body from a man who was a seaman by profession but who in his school boy days was a person known for fighting on street corners. He did not have a big framed body and did not have a heavy-weight physique and yet he was into fighting.

People try to pin down whatever one does to what one’s parent(s) did but in my case, even as a boy I was not interested in fights and remained at a distance from any possibility of it. All the same if I was boxed in a corner my attitude was:

Do or Die

Recently a grandson of my explained how he was bullied at school. His mother wanted me to advise him on how to handle it. I told him that he should speak to the school authorities but if he was boxed in a corner and had no alternative, he should just kill the other person.

To qualify this, and there were some adults listening who were somewhat shocked at what I said, I clarified that when boxed in a corner, one has to have an attitude of:

I am not in this as a play activity. This is a live or die situation. If the other guy(s) is not serious about this, then he should back away, because otherwise if we are both serious about this, then one of us will be put away.

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inSelf Yoga which I teach is mostly about running away from combat or fighting and winning. In that sense these fights have significance and if the fighter sold out because he agreed to a preset outcome with his opponent then it is still a fight and it is still motivated on the basis of violence. In fact there is even more violence in such a fight because it is violence towards to gullible public who are caught in the trap of enjoying or being disappointed about a staged performance.

Question is:

When will any fighter evolve out of having the desire for such combat?

Applying this to the core-self and its adjuncts, when will the fight between them be conclusively over and permanently ceased with the core-self being the victor?

How many more times will the core have to run away from, to avoid being shamed and bloodied in the fights for control against the adjuncts?

Here is the video: