Picasso said that the meaning of life was to find your talent and that the purpose of life was to share it, he might have just said that everyone should find their kung fu…!”

You see kung fu, contrary to popular belief, does not imply some kind of martial combat, in fact it means “life work!” It just so happens that many people, including myself, choose martial arts as our life work but one needs to look beyond the veil to see the true dimensions of what it is we mean when we say kung fu or martial arts for that matter…

Bruce Lee once said “Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.”

This is true mastery of one’s kung fu - the transcendence of mind in operation to be able to perform without the intrusion of thinking because it is thinking that causes hesitation and it is hesitation that leads to failure…

Nature has a simple design purpose and that is “To do…”

In Chinese philosophy we talk of reaching the state of “Mushin” or “No Mind” This is the fundamental state of the deepest forces in nature - The wind blows, the river flows and the bee makes the honey and all without the concerns for past or future, cause or consequence, they are simply being…

When we are simply being, we are flowing in the current of nature, the timeless eternal moment, the Tao as we martial artists say. The Tao is the essence of who you are, the emptiness that reflects the world as you know it, into existence. It is the mountain, the sea, you and me and yet it is still, silent and unassuming. It is the peace within, the source of all being, it can not be named or intellectualized nor can it be reduced to any single concept. It is the void from which emanates and all eventually will return, the mystery within and when we touch it, we become it, this is Tai Chi..!o said that the meaning of life was to find your talent and that the purpose of life was to share it, he might have best said “Everybody shoul