(picture from the movie The Forbidden Kingdom)Kung-Fu. Hard work over time to accomplish skill.
A painter can have kung-fu. Or the butcher who cuts meat every day with such skill his knife never touches bone.
Learn the form, but seek the formless. Hear the soundless. Learn it all, then forget it all. Learn The Way, then find your own way.
The musician can have kung-fu, or the poet who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep. This, too, is kung-fu.
But do not name it, my friend, for it is like water. Nothing is softer than water yet it can overcome rock. It does not fight. It flows around the opponent.
Formless, nameless, the true master dwells within. Only you can free him.
The musician can have kung-fu, or the poet who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep. This, too, is kung-fu.
But do not name it, my friend, for it is like water. Nothing is softer than water yet it can overcome rock. It does not fight. It flows around the opponent.
Formless, nameless, the true master dwells within. Only you can free him.
(By actor Jet Li as The Silent Monk in the movie "The Forbidden Kingdom")
aka Komaya
July 2010
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