School of Oom Yung Doe: Road of Life -- Success or Failure

GrandMaster "Iron" Kim

Road of Life - Success or Failure

Success or failure comes from what choices you make in life. Life is a challenge and there are two ways to choose - a right road or a wrong road. Success comes from choosing one of these ways but cannot be achieved from being neutral, and common sense tells us success will not come from choosing the wrong path.

Neutral is equal to failure. By being neutral you have no challenge for there are no decisions to make, there is no road to follow. Every day is just wasted. Remember that yesterday can never return to you.

One main principle of knowledge is to know the difference between the right path and the wrong path. A person who understands the principles of life has earned the right to say they are a person of knowledge.

"Do not choose sides", means do not favor one side or the other. It does not mean stay neutral. Recognition comes from earning. Earning comes from taking sides, and that is choosing between a right road or a wrong road. Choosing a right road earns good recognition. Choosing a wrong road leaves on guilt.

There are two ways to fail during your life. The first is to fail "invisibly" by leaving on the guilt of a wasted life the second is to fail "visibly" by not obtaining materials and wealth.

To take a neutral position with a situation of right or wrong in front of you is selfish. It is selfish to wait, sit back and reap the benefits of staying safe rather than choosing the main principle of life. Neutral is looking for personal benefit.

Right or wrong does not come from your personal judgement. Your personal judgement always favors you. Favoring yourself is not the right answer, the right road. Favoring the other side is not the right answer either. Right and wrong were their before you were born. Personal beliefs of right and wrong bring with them the confusion of your own thoughts. This is the worst way to make a mistake.

Someone may feel they have achieved the success of daily life in the "visible", such as material and financial status, but they have failed at the "invisible" success in knowing the basic principle of life and to live it within everyday life.

You might be able to hide from others, but you cannot hide from yourself. You cannot run away from what you did. Remember right or wrong, you have to live with what you do for the rest of your life. You can lie towards the "visible" but not toward the "invisible".

One may have knowledge in the sense that they have memorized or copied from books and not know life. How can someone say they have knowledge and not know themself? No knowledge of life is to fail life.

The best judgement to make in life is not to be influenced by yourself. In life there are two ways of influence (or to be fooled). One is by others, the other is by yourself. In other words, your biggest enemy is in you (also your closest friend is in you), the next is others. Most foolish is when you cannot "get out" of your own thought.

Most sad in this life is not to know the difference between a right and wrong road. Then you cannot see someone fool you with right or wrong. Then you can be influenced and swayed by the thought and games of others. This is when you have lost yourself. The greatest loss in this life is to lose yourself, there is nothing worse.

WINNING OVER OTHERS IS VICTORY
WINNING OVER YOURSELF IS SUCCESS

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