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 Volume
9, Issue 3 - Fall 2002
The
viewpoint of the Traditional Martial Arts
is that we are a spiritual being with a physical manifestation,
where the mind goes the spirit or chi follows, and that
the physical is nothing more or less than a manifestation
of chi.
Control
of our prevalent mental attitude is one of
the major tools for controlling our reality. In this
case like attracts like, positive attracts positive
and negative attracts negative.
Therefore,
it is up to us to decide whether we want to be Positive,
supportive and constructive or Negative,
critical and destructive.
The
choice is ours.
The
Dojo or Place of the Way is pointed in the direction
of Self-Improvement
and Spiritual Development
through Austere Physical Training.
The kicking and punching is the means not the end. The
etiquette and process is the vessel.
So
please remember that attitudes
are contagious. We must all make a special
effort to keep things positive when at the Dojo or whenever
we are with other Dojo members.
Engi
- the law of interdependence of all in the Dojo demands
that seniors lead by example, and juniors follow the
good example of the seniors.
The
Way is in the Training.
I.e. It's not about you, it's
about the training.
The
CMAC Agenda
Education not just Entertainment
The
goal of CMAC is to reach traditional martial arts in
a positive environment and in a Canadian context.
Bun
Bu Ryu Do - The Way of Pen and Sword Oneness
1/3 Austere Physical Training, 1/3 Protracted Meditation,
1/3 Mental Assimilation.
While
at the Dojo, the element of austere
physical training is the most obvious. To
this end we have literally traveled the world to be
able to bring you a complete program of the highest
quality of martial arts to our Dojo.
The
ultimate goal of perfection
of character requires that we endeavour to
cleanse, build and lead our intrinsic energy. Much like
our daily shower, we must first cleanse our energy and
learn how to utilize it to create a positive element-
Iron Shirt, or Peng Jin, and have this positivity manifest
in our daily lives.
The
Mental component begins with the basic readings outlined
in the Student Manuals, but the goal is expansion and
expansion and emancipation
of the mind. The Zen method was to awaken
the student to the myriad of possibilities and realities
that exist in the infinite while keeping us firmly grounded
in the here and now.
This
of course puts us on a different road than most (the
Western scientific measure of disorder which states
that in this reality in any enclosed system, entropy
or disorder increases over time) as we endeavour to
decrease our entropy or increase the order of the closed
system hat is ourselves in the belief that if we affirm
this for ourselves, we can help our community, country,
World and Universe.
This
we affirm for all sentient beings without exception
because of course the goal of enlightenment is to move
beyond the subject/object dichotomy, i.e. beyond us
and them, here and there.
"There
are more things in Heaven and Earth that are dreamt
on in your philosophies"
-Hamlet
If
not you then who?
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