A lot of good stuff there:
-Everthing is an obstracting, and nothing truely has intrinsic "good" or "bad", "right" or "wrong" values.
-Physical control often mirrors mental control. Hence, someone who is toned and conditioned on the outside is more likly to be balanced within thier minds than some random fat guy. People who have a foot of garbage in thier car care less about themselves in general than people who clean themselves and thier living space. When you are hiring someone, you look for a well dressed person with good posture/eye contact ect.... There are plenty of outside signs that can tell a lot about them as indeviduals.
-External locus of control: "The cruel world has made my life suck, I have no power to change things myself."
Its hard to say that philosophical developement has a direct corelation to physical developement....other kinds of people besides martial artists are in great shape, such as swimmers or acrobats... and its easy to say that an olympic swimmer is in better shape than your average mcdojo moron.
Though there may be some link between the unique self-control and physical developement one learns from martial art, and philosophical understanding.
|