Lessons from Kungfu Panda 2

I've been it itching to write this post for a week, but had to restrain myself because I didn't want to spoil it for those who haven't watched the movie.
Went to watch Kungfu Panda 2 last Sunday and got blown away with it. Normally, when I go to watch a movie, I switch off my brains and leave them back home. That's the reason I'm able to enjoy any movie I watch. But even with my brains switched off, I was able to pick up so many lessons that I actually got a doubt whether this movie is actually made for kids?
I'll probably watch this movie again just to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Please be warned, what I'm discussing in this post might give away important plot points and spoil your experience if you have not watched the movie already. Then again, you can always go prepared to experience the movie even better.

Here we go...

Bang... Lesson 1 - Things are not always what they seem to be...
In the very start of the movie, they show two kids talking outside the training place of Po (our hero, the panda), they hear some sounds and they think the great dragon warrior is practicing his Kung Fu. Turns out that Po was holding an eating competition with his friends which was causing all these sounds...
Things are not always what they seem. I will only accept a fact if what I HEAR agrees with what I SEE...

Bang... Lesson 2 - Faith... Trust in your team...
The valley was attacked by wolves and Po and his Kung Fu friends were asked to go to the rescue. They come running jumping across valleys and jumping from cliffs. Every time the whole team jumps, even Po jumps, only issue is that he doesnt know how to land, every time he jumps, crane (one of the team members) catches Po just inches above the ground and lands him safely, and Po actually does it with so much of style and confidence.  All the other friends are Kung Fu masters and obviously making impossible jumps and leaps from clifftops is absolutely easy for them. But given his size, Po cannot do any of that, none the less he jumps in the faith that his team will land him to safety.

Bang... Lesson 3 - Drop Desperation
In the movie, something will be bothering Po a lot. Earlier, his master told him that nothing is impossible for the one who has found peace within. Now, while struggling with his problems, Po is desperately looking for peace and gets really really desperate. But he doesn't find it. Somewhere in the later part of the movie, when he is lost in past memories and not thinking of peace, he finds it... The Peace within. Very true what my teacher has taught me - that which I want desperately may not be denied but will definitely be delayed. I should drop desperation, everything has it's time.

Bang... Lesson 4 - My communication is not complete unless it has reached the other person.
After almost getting killed, Po miraculously recovers and comes back to fight the villain, Po is standing at the top of the tower and challenging the villain telling that his end is near, the only problem is that the tower is too far away and his voice is not loud enough. So the villain cannot hear a thing, obviously he doesn't feel scared and starts firing at Po. All Po's communication gets wasted just because it did not reach the other person.

Bang... Lesson 5 - I will know the ability of my tools before using them...
After shouting from the tower, Po takes off his hat and throws it at the villain. The hat was never designed for this purpose, so it floats in the air and falls harmlessly near the tower without travelling any distance at all...

Bang... Lesson 6 - I will grow so much that my teacher should admire me...
Towards the end of the movie, Po will do some amazing stuff which is possible only after finding the inner peace. In the climax scene, Po's master will come and say this to Po - looks like you have found inner peace, (frowning) at such a young age... This really shows that the master was impressed with Po and was infact shocked to some extent that Po was able to do it at such a young age while it took the master himself so many years and a very very painful experience to find inner peace (watch the movie to know what that experience was).

Bang... Lesson 7 - I should always understand the size the problem before taking it head on...
In the movie, this leader and Kung Fu master "Master Rhino" will be challenged by the villain and his mysterious weapon. Master Rhino has never seen the mysterious weapon before and tries to fight with his own weapon of expertise - his hammer. The result, he gets killed before he knows what happened.
So many times we make promises, give estimates, commit deadlines without fully analyzing the factors involved. I think we need to learn a lesson or two from Master Rhino.

Bang... Lesson 8 - I will use what resources I have in the right way...
The movie revolves around a weapon which has been designed to destroy Kung Fu. Po's master tells him that Po and his team have to stop the weapon and the only weapon they have is Kung Fu. At this point Po asks - "How can I use Kung Fu to stop something that is supposed to stop Kung Fu". The master tells him that the answer is in finding inner peace.
Personally, I'm not very highly evolved and it might be long before I find my inner peace, but what I do understand is that it did not matter whether Po had a bigger, more powerful weapon or not, what mattered was how he used the one weapon he had, that is Kung Fu.

Bang... Lesson 9 - I should never forget my beginning and my family...
Towards the climax, Po goes back to his father's place and spends quality time cooking with his father like he used to before he became the Dragon Warrior. If Dragon Warrior can go back and cook in his own kitchen with his family, you and I are just CAs, CEOs and CFOs.