By Huai Hsiang Wang
I am not interested in inventing a new system.
I am not interested in building another tradition.
The only thing I am interested in is that I like to collect the hearts from people.
I do not take any disciples.
I MAKE MASTERS.
If you use your mind to try to make it happen, you cannot.
You have to relax.
Relax yourself mentally.
You have to prepare, to practice, everything. But you cannot make it happen.
IT HAPPENS TO YOU
By the end of the day it is you who is practicing.
It is your mind, your body.
You are the only one to make a difference in you.
Nobody else can do it for you.
In your relationship with mind, body, Spirit, where does God fit in or does he? What is your belief in this chaotic world and how does one zone out with so much negativity in the world today? Do you have a connection or solution within yourself to share with everybody or a path where someone can find soleness in oneself?
The trinity of Kung Fu is Essence, Energy, and Spirit. If one really understands the metaphorical pointers, the connotation means:
There is no other God but thee!
Beingness is the essence, the combination of the Primal energy with the animation of body sentience. Once in animation, all is a function of the primal energy with the veiling of sentience. Spirit is of the manifestation, the reflection, and extrapolation of the psyche.
Ancient Chinese Kung Fu is an empirical art of reverse self engineering. It is always up to oneself to realize one’s true nature. On the path, there is no room for mystery nor religion. For if there is a mystery, you are the mystery bound by ignorance, whereas when the spiritual teachings become a religion, the essence is gone.
All relevant teachings, both advanced Kung Fu and spiritual teachings are metaphorical pointers, once digested and graduated, there will be no more seeking high and low, for the seeker is the sought. Knowledge disappears, one becomes the knower, the seer, in peace and harmony always, rifting on life current in the moment of now, Prana in Dynamics.
In peace.
Both the “I” and the butterfly are the dreamed objects as of the nature of animation of manifestation, whereas the “One” is neither.
The “One” is the pure subject witnessing the object.
The “One” is that which animates both the subject and the object.
Devoid of the object, there is only “Oneness”!
Whereas devoid of the ‘Oneness”, both are neither!
In peace!
For those of my English friends who are interested in the core of Internal Martial Art, I strongly advise you to attend Huai Hsiang Wang´s workshop in the UK this coming weekend.
In these times where a lot of people seem to focus on ridiculous discussions on who has the most “authentic” Tai Chi form, it is far better to focus on the fundamentals and essentials – free of fairy tales. And you will get that on this workshop.
Having spent quite some time with Howard over the last couple of years, most recently two weeks ago where we had an intensive 6-days training with a focus group here in Copenhagen, I can from my heart recommend that you attend a workshop with him and/or sign up for private tuition.
I call the Prana body the internal clouds, once one can surrender the deflamed mental energy to confluent with the body energy throughout the fascia, one transcends the Loki state, the state of ego, and become qualified to be called an Aloki; someone without personality.
Once One becomes one with the energy body, there will emerge the internal insight that all is a function of energy free of identities! All Is!
Welcome to the clouds!
In peace!
Wisdom is of manifestation, whereas awareness is of Prana. A very good Chinese picture of meditation!
Chinese Kung Fu forms first evolve as a note of martial applications summarized by each founding master. It was intended as a contingent alternative to practice (shadow boxing) when there is no partner to practice with. Nor was it intended to replace partner workmanship (feeding).
Forms serve as a good frame of reference to those who do not understand the internal mechanism of the art. However, once realized and digested, the forms should be done with and one should be able to improvise applications in accord with their intent en rapport with their character with the taste of their subjective style.
Similar to the school education experience, once one mastered a subject and passed the examination, the notes of the subject should be discarded, once and for all.
There is something in the authentic forms, but the form itself is no it!
Attachment to forms is the sure symptom of ignorance.
Unfortunately, form attachment is still the norm to the contemporary cognition of Chinese Kung Fu in the name of tradition today. This is the dramatization of Kung Fu as the Chinese classic fiction evolved from the labyrinth of propaganda of the mass media derived from ignorance, which is no less than the vulgarization and degradation of the essence of the art!
If you have to begin with the forms, try to understand the intent of each movement, assimilate, digest, detach and out-grown oneself from what is being delineated in the forms, then will there be the possibility of spontaneous improvisation.
Ironically, the same applies to the spiritual dimension of the art.
Be free to express oneself in motion without being stupid.
Spontaneity is where there is no mind!
In peace!
