Why study anything to do with reconciliation if your a martial artist?

Reconciliation is the process of unifying opposites. What in the hell does this have anything to do with life or martial arts? What does this have to do with life? Why bother with this philosophical-quasi-mystical-mumbo jumbo?
If one is non violent by nature and studies martial arts, which are violent, well that’s a start. A simple truth in street fighting reality is that in order to succeed an individuals violence must be greater than the violence that they are facing. Superior violence reconciles the inferior violence in this instance.
What about the difference between sparring vs. combat. Rules would act as the reconciling agent between relatively safe (Sparring) and absolutely not safe (Combat). Sportsmanship is also an agent of this reconciliation as it is applied to sports and sparring.
The possibility exists in an actual encounter where life maybe taken to preserve ones own life. This is the reconciliation of the living against that of the dead.
When tolerance ends and one must act in a martial way, how does one maintain compassion amidst a non-compassionate circumstance?
There are many more such examples of the need for reconciliation in a person’s life. The aim of this brief post is about reconciliation and application.
OK! Here we go!
Balance is to be sought in the middle of the experience and knowledge of personal extremes. If one does not know or has not experienced their greatest personal extremes of happiness or sadness, joy and misery, sickness and health etc…. the individual is operating from a false center. Only in knowledge of these personal extremes can a true middle be known. Without this “True middle” an individual is operating from a false middle or center and is, in this sense, divided and that which is divided is easily conquered. To know the true middle, know the extremes or poles of ones nature.
The process of knowing all the extremes may very well take a lifetime. It is certainly true that an individual who has taken the time to reconcile their nature, even if that individual has not reconciled that many things in their nature, when confronted against an individual who has not reconciled one aspect of themselves and is operating from a false center will have an immediate advantage.
Winning is all about advantages no matter how small!
In the cosmos larger masses or objects create gravity fields and these gravity fields affect smaller masses or objects. Ever drive down the highway and have a large eighteen-wheeler rig go bye at a high rate of speed? Feels like your car gets sucked in towards it doesn’t it?
When an individual establishes a true core of being through the practice of internal reconciliation a corresponding external response is manifested into that person’s space. The core that is true and whole has an advantage over a false divided core.
In application on the small mat and big mat (To quote TVD) when one spins another on their axis this force or sensation is even more magnified, almost magical. It is not magical it is a physics of the unification of opposites and the affect of this unification, this new and whole core that is manifesting itself in to an individual’s space.
Take what you know (The “I”), this represents a third. Then through imagination and logical deduction focus your mind on the exact opposite of that which you are (The Not-“I”). This is the concept and application of inversion. For example: I am four feet five inches high, how am I going to fell someone who is six feet six inches tall. Taking what you know (Your short)- OK I can get in low quick and easy. Take what you do not know (The not-“I”)- imagine and deduct what it would be like to be that size and the pros and cons of being 6’6”. It takes practice and the more practice the better the results! Once both sides are known take these two thirds and combine them to make the final third.
This final third is the new and complete center. It will have its own gravitational force that can be directly experienced in the individual’s personality and life. This new center represents the reconciliation of opposites. It is how one makes strength from weakness. Or as the ancient Alchemists were fond of saying, “It makes a medicine of a poison”.

12hours later, I'm still trying to reconcile reading your post.

ROTFLMAO @ BOB#2!!!!