Some gold from Moshe during this lesson”
“Whoever succeeds in straightening the leg and does it in front
never succeeds because the moment that it is already straightened,
he is satisfied and continues to do it forward.
Because of this,
we all remain lagging in relation to ourselves
- always….
because we succeed in doing something
and the need to learn
goes to hell.
Therefore, we stop learning and we get old and become idiots;
otherwise, we would not get old.
As long as a person has the desire and curiosity to learn,
he is willing to do what the little child does.
When he really turns around himself,
he turns - really, really turns.
His head spins.
He falls down and gets up.
He turns around again.
He trains himself such that afterward he has power,
intellect,
and flexibility.
For all of us who begin to avoid movements,
who tries to succeed immediately,
this is the beginning of old age.
You can see people who already are eighteen or twenty
who are beginning to avoid these tricks.
They become more and more clumsy and awkward.
And, afterward they need to go to a doctor so as to heal their joints,
their stomach,
their head,
their eyes,
and their behind.
Because nothing works”.
The stomach, the head, the eyes AND their behind… maybe what he left out is the psychological impacts of preparing for the process of “aging”,
as this video jokingly(?) points to:
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