Living in the Moment

This weekend during an internal class Sifu talked a little about the importance of living life in the present and how critical it is to reaching the higher levels of our training. People spend their lives either in the past or the future, thinking about what that have done or what they need to do. Kung fu training, tai chi and meditation are essential tools to help us exist in the moment. Masters are often described as having a supernatural ability to know that an attack is going to be thrown before the initiation of the movement. Masters report that time slows down for them in combat and they feel like the attacks are coming in at slow motion (Illustrated in the first of the recent spiderman movies when Peter Parker first discovers his powers...). At a higher level of training the intention of the move is detected rather than the move itself, giving plenty of time to move and react.

Nick
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