MARTIAL ARTS ARE SIMPLE ….BUT PLEASE DON’T PANIC!
By Pedro Fleitas
I had an illumination. I realized that although I don’t have hair I can brag about it, because every time I wear a black t shirt to give a class, I see the hair of my doggie Tai decorating the textiles. So I have hair, and I make it clear so that there are no misunderstandings. The great thing is that the hair of my dog knows no borders, no passport control, no customs control nor language, just as I see hair across my shirt, usually up and down (to advertise a bit more Isaac Newton), but the fact is that some are also come from the bottom to the top and from right to left and left to right, and so on. They are very sensitive to motion, like those who practice the Kihon Happo, Juppo Sessho, Sanshin no Kata.
In our lives there are many things with us and which we don’t perceive, yet are very important.
I ask, pardon, I ask myself? The existence of the hidden combination of sempai, gohai and dohai is identical to Jonin, Chunin and Genin or equal to Shidoshi ho, Shidoshi and Shihan. There is a hidden combination in every action, every movement, even if we do not know when the movement is in-limited (be careful is a perception not a technique) the plot exceeds the hidden combination to become the re-opening of the essentials?
Today when we "philosophize" we get very serious. We want to take the role, for example, of a perfect martial arts teacher, correct, strict, someone who must be respected for his titles and technical knowledge. What could be Furthest from a martial reality? Reality or illusion? Illusion AND reality?
YES, we all learn from each other, correct, but all are not your master. A teacher is very special and if you're lucky enough to find one in this life, consider yourself fortunate, very fortunate. There are many beings who cannot find anything and look at themselves every day and thinking I am my master, my only teacher, I know all the techniques, I get all the feelings, but how often have you felt a knee that smashing your head on the floor and laugh so you don’t cry. Ten, Twenty, Thirty, have you counted? How many times has your teacher told you: YES and how many: NO? And how many times have you served him tea? Have you cut a lot of wood to develop deshi-iri or ultimately you just want skills and techniques? kanji and kanji. If so, congratulations, you're keeping the least important thing, you are forgetting the core. CONGRATULATIONS. But if you have filled the glass raising the bottle and turning it over, then it won’t be very difficult to turn the glass upside down to empty it. It seems like overdoing. Watch the Children, for example, at the edge of the beach playing with sand and buckets. They fill, empty and refill them. They make a mountain and destroy it, and enjoy that!
Gentlemen, ladies, the experience is personal, but one cannot be a good teacher, rather one cannot acquire the mastery of something if you have not been a student, excuse me, rather as my Uchi Deshi Dr. David Palau says "Without having the heart of a student for all your life" I would say without having the syndrome of: I am here, I want to experience, but what you have to experience or what you choose to experience, if perhaps you have that option.
Today I wrote about unimportant things, about worldly things, about my dog’s hair, on heads being crushed by knees, and above all about chopping wood, lots of wood. This is writing is a little crazy, rather pretty crazy.
I love having this syndrome called "the minimum common denominator sydnrome" from Wikipedia Is the lowest common denominator of two or more fractions, that number is the result of calculating the least common multiple of the denominators of the same fractions, usually with the aim of obtaining two (or more) fractions of the same denominator and equivalent fractions, and respectively equivalent to the initial fractions.
You know, I prefer the lowest common denominator of the lowest common denominator, it is easier.
Every day you hear more "in a few days I go to Japan" or "I was in Japan training" do you have to go to Japan to train? Japan is not the origin of our Budo, the origin of our Budo at least the one we came to know) is a number of people who sought survival through natural movement methods integrating their lives with nature. It seems that the first were from the East.
I state firmly: "I will train with Hatsumi Sensei, my teacher, wherever he is." Anyway I understand that this statement is difficult for many because they would have had to follow Hatsumi Sensei wherever he was, in other words, to be able to cut wood in any forest.
Saying things such as "Good, that so few of us attended training " "Good I was uke" "I had 20,000 trainings" "I am a Shihan" "Tell me when you are going so I don’t". The most important is to train with Hatsumi Sensei and define clear within yourself if you are a contracted party or a contractor, and if you want to be contracted you have to possess some natural abilities and something more and if you want to be contractor you will have to "have something" that can be hired.
Everything is easier. Keep it simple; respect your teachers, even if you disagree with them, at least temporarily. It’s a natural law, not to agree, is not inappropriate, it’s natural. Maybe you do not get theirmessage or you may not understand it. Have you tried to tune the same channel or you just have stubbornly refused to cut wood? Think, meditate, what have you done? You don’t need to leave a comment here, is something for your interior. It’s not something to be neither judged nor trialed, but thought by you. Respect the Sempai (Close students of Soke), the gohai and dohai. Respect yourselves.
Heart to heart, is not that difficult. A big hug. A crazy day.
Pedro, Unryu
P. S. Do not worry because children become adults, it’s natural, nothing happens, that’s not a disease or genetic transmutation.
(translated by Dr. Palau)
