“Throw them into perilous ground, and they will survive; plunge them into Death Ground, and they will live.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War (The Nine Kinds of Ground)

To the unknowing person, this wisdom might at first sight be totally irrelevant to picking up girls. However to the knowing person, this wisdom is of fundamental importance in winning a girl back to your side when you are on the verge of losing her.

Women smell fear and insecurities from miles away. They are even more sensitive when it comes from their man. Women being sensitive creatures needy of security cannot have their man being fearful or insecured, aka weak. They need their man to be strong or phrased in another way they want a strong man (the traditional Alpha Male). Since history it was commonly the trend that some man get all the women while others get nothing. Applied in ancient china, the emperor has thousands of concubines in his harem while the serfs have nothing.

In the modern day arena, the chances of survival for a weak man is far higher that in the old days. Also it is far easier for a weak man to pretend to be strong. The living is easier that it was. The needs to satisfy to ensure survival are less immediate today as it were. In fact if you walked around the streets nowadays, you do see lots of Beta Males and not much Alpha Males. Beta or Alpha irregardless all of them are looking for a mate. A single woman is engaged more times in a day that an average Males does approaching.

Living in a fast pace society as we are today with no real environmental threat to help eliminate the weak, women need to resort to really fast and effective methods to cipher if an approaching male is one which is Alpha or Beta. Even if this male passes the first stage of testing and gets the woman, he will still be continously subjected to more and more rounds of testing till he eventually breaks by showing fear and insecurity. Thereafter the woman leaves in search for a strong male.

The application of Sun Tze’s Death Ground Theory is thus a key in countering the tests by women on a fundamental level of perception. This is what most men understand as deep inner game. A man’s live is forever a state of warfare and a truly lonely one. To be able to accept this fact and to survive and strive is to plunge into Death Ground and live. When a man has truly accepted the fact that he will forever be alone irregardless of where he is, he would no longer fear the losing of his mate. Counter intuitively, his mate thus feels secured and stays forever with him.

Running the Jazz club many years I have came to realise that God is indeed more than just fair. Not only do we have 5 senses we do have the ability to develop senses outside of the 5 given to us. These sense each though not physical senses, but more of a way of perception, when developed to a heightened level would each in itself give us an added advantage over the rest of our counter parts in that specific field that this sense is most suited for.

One night when talking to John over some whiskey, he described to me what is known as the money sense. This is a very very important sense that one must horn to a heighten level should one attempt at money making that is out of the regular method (the stable wage lifestyle)

A person with a heightened money sense will first and foremost observe the potential rate of returns when presented with an opportunity.

Here is a schematic overview that one such individual goes through when analyzing an opportunity.

1. What is the initial capital outlay required?
2. What is the maximum potential returns?
3. What is the maximum potent loses?
4. What are the alternatives available?
5. If there are alternatives available, what are the alternative capital outlay required, their maximum potential return and loses?
6. How much percentage of your total asset is require for commitment to this venture?
7. Is this opportunity subjected to upward black swan effect or downwards black swan effect?

The best choice would be one that requires smaller amounts of capital for the most level of maximum potential returns and least level of potential losses while at the same time be subjected to upwards black swan effect.

Sticking wising to this schematic framework will further help us buck my life

An idea dawned upon Cruise years ago before he became a property tycoon. The idea was that of trasmuting the male sex drive into energy that was useful and could be harnessed. He firmly did believe in that notion and worked on it day and night.

As inexplicable as it was, there was this unwritten law of attraction in the universe that like attracts like, he met this Hayden in a business convention on a cruise ship to Tokyo. Hayden had been unknowning practising what Cruise believed to be the secrets to success and Cruise made a chanced observation of Hayden at work in bucking his life….

One day this friend of mine came into my jazz pub. As was usual the case, I sat down with him and struck up a conversation with him. The conversation soon took a turn from the usual talk about life to more serious and philosophical areas.

We talked for many hours where he expressed ideas about how the world is view true Zen where by what is really around is but Emptiness and whatever form we see around us is but and illusion. That is why the need mediation.

The period of meditation for a zen practitioner is a period by which we clear our mind of all earthly distractions and truely attempt to bring our state of mind to what truly is. In the Zen sense this means Emptiness, a state of Mu-ga or Satori translated to English, it means a state of no I.

In this state of Mu-ga or Satori, one sees things not from the perception of the illusory self but from a state whereby the self does not exist, has never existed. In this state one is truly is able to see things as the way they should be seen, an impassioned point of view. Actions and thoughts performed thus in this state is truly an enlightened one.

While striving for such a state of mind might be too lofty a pursuit for most, meditation in the Zen sense does indeed help individuals focus their mind, removing all distractions, thus increasing their productivity. Similar in the tradition of the samurais who through the staunch practise of Zen are able to serve single mindedly their Master in some extent even beyond the point of physical death.

Thinking back, it seemed surreal that I am here now, sipping my wine while listening to jazz, and not somewhere else. This has been the lifestyle that I dreamed of to have someday and now it is all real. Fate could have dealt me another set of cards and I could have been anywhere else except here right this moment.

Perhaps she did, in another time and space. Perhaps in that parallel universe, there was indeed another me that is now sitting, hopeless and homeless in the corner of some anonymous streets with nowhere to go and no one to turn to. I shivered at the thought of that. I took another sip of red wine and shrugged off this fear. It could not been too far a possiblity.

My childhood was a turbulant one, ever since the death of both my parents in the car accidant. Live since then had been a blur, like a metaphoric cosmic whirlwind that hurled me through time and space allowing me neither sense of security nor control.

How then did I survive this metaphoric roller coaster ride through all these years, all these doubts, fears and uncertainties?

Try as we might as a race to look into the future to discern the mysteries, yet unravelled, we fail time and time again and on occasions miserably. The human race just can’t predict and will forever remain so. Clairovoyance will forever remain in the realms of God. What then are we left with, if without the ability to predict. How then, did we, blind as a race, managed to move forward thus far as we did to where we are today?

Seeking deep within my heart I guess this was how. We are here we are today because some amongst us left their doubts, fears and uncertainties with God along with the need for clairovoyance and ventured forth bravely in pursuit their’s dreams backed by almost nothing but faith and a desire to see their visions come to fruition.

The human mind is the most wonderful of things. It is like a receiver and transmitter of thoughts. This is what Napolean Hill stated in his book Think and Grow Rich. How else it is then that ideas which we normally call inspiration pop into our head from sources unknown.

Being powerful as it is, the mind too is a double edged sword, that when not focused and concentrated goes wandering on its own through space and time, meanwhile leaving the body stagnant in the present moment.

Concentration then is the key to harnessing the power of this mirculously thinking machine each of us has called the brain.