Iron
Dagobah Resident
I wasn't sure were to put this, but here it goes.
I think its somehow important in the context of the work, to be able to say thanks and pay your debt with the Universe and the teachers it sends along your way. While I would not say that I know how to do so in a efficient manner yesterday I decided to visit one of my earliest teachers - my first Kung Fu instructor.
It was nice to see that even aged he continues the same: attentive, generous, kind, caring, gentle, but relentless in training.
With him I learned so much that I took for my life, I can not even begin to enumerate. Much of my calm and tranquil demeanos, I learned with him. With his help I began the path of taming my rage, as I was a adolescent filled with fury. With him I learned that even while complaining with pain, tired, to persevere no matter what. I Can not begin to thank him for such profound things. I've tried. So maybe as a symbolic thanks, while I visited him I helped him to teach the begginners with the most basic postures of the Eagle Claw Style. The Five Steps. It was magical to have the opportunity to demonstrate that now I finally understand the purpose of something that, when I was young, I thought too boring and see the person I was training also understood. This newcomer, was a sight for me to see training, for he was a gentleman of 50 years with shoulder problems, and overweight, but did not give up at any time during training, even managing to do 400 abdominals in varied forms! This student is the student that matters to me because he managed to undo the limitations of his body, just for a moment.
Anyone can teach a prodigious student, but only a Sifu / Master can teach the way to the apparently common student. Only a Master sees the value in the ordinary student.
Thanks to all my fellow Kung Fu partners in all these years, though I may in my typicaly globalist view, I cannot see different families of Kung Fu. For me, there is only one great family of practitioners in the same path, seeking improvement via different ways, and all have taught me so much. Thanks to those who do not remember me, Thanks to those who now entered.
May all have a good practice martial arts, and may the practice teach them the lesson that Ney(my teacher) always told us at the end of each training session.
To paraphrase because my memory is not that good:
"The punches and locks that you learn, are not to be used on the streets, but against yourself, against the wolf that is in you, patiently, for you to become better people."
This text is a clumsy way to pay homage to one of my first masters, a person that, while I could not see this in the past, helped me to get ready for the way, to someday even had the chance to be on this forum and recognize its importance.
The punches were not important, what he was seeking to build in us was character. And I thank him for trying.
I think its somehow important in the context of the work, to be able to say thanks and pay your debt with the Universe and the teachers it sends along your way. While I would not say that I know how to do so in a efficient manner yesterday I decided to visit one of my earliest teachers - my first Kung Fu instructor.
It was nice to see that even aged he continues the same: attentive, generous, kind, caring, gentle, but relentless in training.
With him I learned so much that I took for my life, I can not even begin to enumerate. Much of my calm and tranquil demeanos, I learned with him. With his help I began the path of taming my rage, as I was a adolescent filled with fury. With him I learned that even while complaining with pain, tired, to persevere no matter what. I Can not begin to thank him for such profound things. I've tried. So maybe as a symbolic thanks, while I visited him I helped him to teach the begginners with the most basic postures of the Eagle Claw Style. The Five Steps. It was magical to have the opportunity to demonstrate that now I finally understand the purpose of something that, when I was young, I thought too boring and see the person I was training also understood. This newcomer, was a sight for me to see training, for he was a gentleman of 50 years with shoulder problems, and overweight, but did not give up at any time during training, even managing to do 400 abdominals in varied forms! This student is the student that matters to me because he managed to undo the limitations of his body, just for a moment.
Anyone can teach a prodigious student, but only a Sifu / Master can teach the way to the apparently common student. Only a Master sees the value in the ordinary student.
Thanks to all my fellow Kung Fu partners in all these years, though I may in my typicaly globalist view, I cannot see different families of Kung Fu. For me, there is only one great family of practitioners in the same path, seeking improvement via different ways, and all have taught me so much. Thanks to those who do not remember me, Thanks to those who now entered.
May all have a good practice martial arts, and may the practice teach them the lesson that Ney(my teacher) always told us at the end of each training session.
To paraphrase because my memory is not that good:
"The punches and locks that you learn, are not to be used on the streets, but against yourself, against the wolf that is in you, patiently, for you to become better people."
This text is a clumsy way to pay homage to one of my first masters, a person that, while I could not see this in the past, helped me to get ready for the way, to someday even had the chance to be on this forum and recognize its importance.
The punches were not important, what he was seeking to build in us was character. And I thank him for trying.
