The martial artist must always train holding two truths:
1. Thriving for perfection
2. Accepting what is
How do we do this in our everyday training and the training of our students?
Appreciate imperfection for the beauty of what it is. Think about how cute a child's smile is when they have big gap from a missing baby tooth! Now how about the young child learning martial arts who has very little muscle tone and is flopping all over? What about the older adult that is so stiff in their movements that you wish you could just apply some WD-40? Now how about you when you can't seem to get out that one combination of moves quite right?
Is it a little harder to find yourself cute and to have the same joy and compassion? The serious, hard work of growth in he martial arts should be enjoyed with pure satisfaction of what is, or as another teacher said "always happy, never satisfied!"
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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