"Black Magic - The
art of
fighting without fighting"
(The death of Bruce
and Brandon Lee) |
| Combat Magazine, August 1993 |
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By Master Simon Wong and Martin Butler
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.
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| "Black Magic - The
art of fighting without fighting" |
| Combat Magazine, August 1993 |
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| 2 | 3
| 4 | 5
| 6 | 7
| Index |
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