We humans have long been involved with the Riddle of Steel since the first looked for the strongest bone club so they could dominate the tribe. And we have always failed at this riddle (well most of us anyway).
Through the dawn of time to even now, we have searched for the greatest sword, the biggest gun and even the ultimate doomsday device. I believe we have three now, OH Great!!! All these folk believe in “Peace through superior firepower.” And they still fail to solve the riddle, or even the last cliché.
And we are all about WAR! War on drugs, war on obesity, war on cancer, war on blah blah blah. All war is, is the act of destroying something we know nothing about. Easy to understand, right.
Now as you sit there, eating your potato chips, meditate on this. We are individuals that are out of balance. We use chemicals to attempt to rectify this. Problem is our choices. The two items we ingest will either nurture us or poison us. Look at them potato chips, read the label. Do you really thick they are nurturing the body; or just fooling the brain chemistry into thinking it is happy. Anyone know what “Malic acid” or “Sodium caseinate” is?
So how does eating crud relate back to the “Riddle of Steel”? We look outside of ourselves for strength, protection and guidance. We will never find the treasures outside, but rather inside of us. Our body will tell us if the stuff we ingest is good for us. We can tell by the quality of sleep, the edginess, by how stuffy our sinuses get, or the lack thereof.
Training in kung fu has developed my body awareness to warn me of when I am poisoning myself, rather than nurturing. It also gives me the strength and stamina to do the following in one day: 5.5 hours of concrete by hand, 3 hours of demolition by hand, and going through three (not one) black belt workouts.How does your regimen stack up? We are always interested in finding some new way of training more efficiently. When our bodies are finely tuned, we can achieve great feats of impossibilities. When you say something is impossible and do not try, you have failed to grasp the “Riddle of Steel”
Good training and you are always welcome to visit the school,
DarkArashi
