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BLACK
MAGIC
The Art of fighting without fighting
(The
death of Bruce and Brandon Lee)
By
Sifu Simon Wong and Martin Butler
this
article originally appeared in COMBAT magazine, August 1993.
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Illusion of Reality mislead by our minds
As years go by, technology advances and marterialism
grows, science leaps forward and everything changes. Yet in this
material world,
there's something forgotten, secrets unknown producing an ever
growing divide between human beings and their mother nature. All
too often we are controlled and restricted by our own senses, which
we believe to be real, causing an attachment to reality and form.
Just believing in what we can see gives us a false understanding
of what is true. The spiritual path is to travel beyond these surface
senses (sight, sound, taste, hearing, touch and emotions). When
entering deeper within ourselves we become aware of other dimensions;
formlessness, this is the spiritual world. Unlocking the door to
the mind (heart) we regain our true senses and realise the immense
powers of the mind, focus this power and you find "The Secret
Way," cultivate this way and you will regain the wisdom and
the divine consciousness of the universe. A spiritual cultivator
experiences many tests and temptations, those who break through
them become 'righteous', those who don't sometimes walk on another
path leading to wrong deeds, eventually causing negative effects
which create destruction to others and themselves. Evil based in our heart
Evil still has power - the most powerful evil and the biggest
enemy is yourself. This means that evil (wrong thoughts) lie within
ourselves, e.g. one good thought and one good deed is righteous,
we feel good about it, one wrong thought or deed is evil and we
also realise it thanks to our conscience. When thinking along this
path we will see that evil certainly lies inside of us. Different
people have different levels of negative thought. We need 'wisdom'
to eradicate all evil from our lives and break the hold it has
on us, which creates 'ignorance' leading to 'fear'. Through wisdom
we learn to understand our true self and all the phenomena inside
us and surrounding us. This is called 'inner realisation of the
truth.' What is truth? Truth can be defined as emptiness. Everything
is empty in true nature, only existing in temporary form, nothing
is real. For example, whilst dreaming in our sleep we experience
all kinds of happenings, we think its real yet it's only a dream.
Using wisdom we realise that life is just a longer dream. Possessions,
feelings, experiences, kung fu and even our bodies are made up
of emptiness, take yourself for example, before you were born,
where were you? A hundred years later where are you? You only leave
behind the deeds you have accomplished, given time even these will
eventually disappear. Think along these lines and you will start
to realise that it's true, you are just temporary in this world.
Lucky
to be born Human
Enlarge your thoughts even more, compare yourself to a mountain, the sky,
the earth. Where is the earth in the limitless universe? In the universe where
are you? Are you really so important, think more. Do you know the meaning of
life, or your purpose in life? Wisdom tells us that to be born as a human being
is such a rare and treasured gift. Imagine a blind turtle, swimming in an ocean
which covers a planet, and a small wooden ring floating somewhere within this
ocean. To be born human is as rare as the turtle swimming to the surface and
catching the hoop. Do we really appreciate the gift of human life? With this
gift we are able to cultivate our spirit (soul), realise our true nature and
mix with the universal natural consciousness (emptiness). This is the meaning
of life.
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