Zen Karate, or Tell Your Hands to Shut Up and…!
Hello!
A bright shiny grin to ya!
One more day in paradise…
one more day to work out.
I mean,
working out is really
the frosting on the cake
and the juicy steak,
and even those durn veggie things!
you know?
So I got stuck on a work out yesterday.
It was Karate
and I kept doing these moves,
but the energy wasn’t coming out.
I stuck on those moves for an hour,
just doing them and doing them.
Look,
you can’t stop,
especially when you are so close!
So when you do ‘loose tight’ in your karate,
or tae kwon do or kenpo or whatever,
when you really focus your mental and physical,
you have to really give your hands
a mental command to loosen the blank up!
Period.
Sometimes the body wants to get tired,
maybe pretend that the muscles won’t do what you tell them to,
but,
heck,
just clean out the mind,
tell the body to get the blank working,
and DO IT!
Gosh durn furshluginner body isn’t going to get in my way!
Whether you do ZenKarate, Zen kung fu, Zen Aikido, or whatever…just do it!
Anyway,
felt great afterwards,
body rehabilitated an injury I had,
felt young again,
and life just toasted up and flipped over for me.
And,
if you don’t know what I mean,
just work out.
Hey,
the martial arts are free!
You can just do them!
There are no taxes on them!
And,
even if there were,
you could just go to a dark corner
and practice the middle finger kata.
Heh.
That’s good,
eh?
I said a funny.
Okay,
laughter over,
let’s get on with it.
A couple of announcements.
Working on Monkeyland,
having real neutronic thoughts,
should be able to relaunch the site
in the not too distant future.
About time,
eh?
And,
the article is supposed to be coming out in Inside Kung Fu
next couple of months.
It’s funny,
I do Matrixing
and they want to do me on Tai Chi.
Tai Chi is calm and balanced,
and they want me to snarl in the lead photo.
GRRRR!
Oh well,
I live in Hollywood,
so I know what it all means.
You have to present an image that grabs,
and calm and balanced doesn’t always grab.
Besides,
I appreciate what they are doing for me.
And,
on another front all together,
I might sell a book.
A novel.
A western called ‘Small in the Saddle.’
I’ll know in a few weeks,
so cross your fingers
and wish me well.
Hmm,
what else.
So much has been happening,
and I’m behind,
trying not to forget anything.
Well.
I think that is it.
So,
look,
emptiness is the most important part of the martial arts.
emptiness is space is nothing,
and that concept permeates the true art
and life as well.
So focus your energy,
but realize that energy doesn’t exist
unless you create a space for it to exist in.
And the smallest energy can be the largest,
if you create a larger space for it to be in.
Not mysterious,
just start with giving your hands mental commands to relax the blank up.
Here’s the magic link…
I really like the Pa Kua,
especially the middle of the three systems on this course.
You really learn how to swirl the energy in your body,
and it is so-o-o darn simple!
Okey dokey
if I forgot anything
I’ll share next time,
until then,
have the best work out of your life.
Al
:o)
Monkeyland be comin’!
You might be a martial artist if…
You tie your bathrobe belt in a square knot. Then check to make sure the ends are exactly even.
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