Sunday, March 3, 2013

Wing Chun Folklore part 2: My body is a temple

Five holy people gathered together to create the ultimate fighting style.  They were masters of Kung fu. But their knowledge was vast and they wanted to simplify it and make it smaller.  One of these ppl was a Monk named white eyebrow and he named the style white eyebrow. The more famous one was a nun named ng mui.  The government tried to kill all of them but these two holy ppl escaped.

Ng mui found a girl named Wing Chun and taught her this simplified Kung fu.  Wing Chun fought a few fights and won.  She asked her Sifu the name of the art and she called it "Wing Chun",  the same name as the girl.

See what I did there?  White eye brow named it white eye brow.  Wing Chun got it named as Wing Chun.  Why?  What does this all mean?


And let's not forget that the temple where the art originated was named weng Chun.  Chinese ppl and their puns.... They really like puns.  So what does this all mean?  You sir are confusing me!

Basically it means that it isn't the style that wins,  it is the individual.heck... I should t be calling my Kung fu wing Chun at all.... I should be calling it Derrick since it is me that is the driving force.  It is the user that wins, not the tool.  In otherwords,  its the horse that drives the cart full of goodies.  People tend to forget the horse and go straight for the goodies.

The temple is a metaphor that symbolizes the Inside of the the individual.  The government presented a threat to that.  The nun fled,  because she wanted to die another day.  She wanted to live until she could rebuild the temple inside someone else.  She rebuilt the temple inside the girl named Wing Chun.

Gives a whole new meaning to " my body is a temple"

@the Kung fu was inside the weng Chun temple.
@The Kung fu found wing Chun.
@The Kung fu was born inside wing Chun.


concluding notes:
People usually try to make Kung fu a thing that they do or participate in.   Something external like a tool.  A gun is a good example.  Is the gun the danger or is it the man pulling the trigger.  The true danger is in the one who made the gun in the first place.

Some will say that it was the Style of Kung fu that made them dangerous.  Some will say it was the person's mis-use of the Kung fu.  But really, the dangerous one is the one that made the art in the first place because that person had the intent of breaking people and wanted other people to follow.

Lastly, to be awesome at Kung fu, you have to be One with it.  Once kung fu has been taught to the temple, let a new form for kung fu get born within the temple.  Spread.  Pollenate. Repeat.

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