Martial art is an evolutionary and multifaceted tool; not only dealing with the external violence, but also, our internal weaknesses, Developing your martial art, to deal with violence entails few fundamental principles. These are:
1) Principle of attribute
2) Principle of skill
3) principle of application
4) principle of experience
5) principle of insight
6) Principle of acquired intuition
7) principles of wisdom
Each of the principles above would take too long to cover here, and they are well beyond the capacity of this short article to fit their prerequisites and implications here. But the fact that, much can be said about them, proves my point that they invariably must also take a long time to develop. Therefore, we have to be patient with ourselves during the process. The real key words are: “process” and “time”. That means there are no shortcuts, and no way to cheat our way out of that “reality”. It is hard to acknowledge this truth but in the long run, the payoff would worth it. If we try to shortcut it or if we are in a quick-delivery frame of mind, we would burn ourselves out with a number of unnecessary disillusionments.
If we are process-minded, we can definitely enjoy the wisdom of the journey, but if we are product-minded without the prospect of the process itself (enjoying the journey), then the mind is not in a proper orientation to see the purpose and the wisdom in training and in developing the principles above. The journey itself would becomes blind, with no road signs as to why we need to do what we need to do, and why we cannot do what we cannot do.
The objective reality of martial art development is the same objective reality as in everything else. The common thread in everything is: process and time. To see this, sometimes we may have to fight (objectively analyzing or thinking) within ourselves in order to gain a proper perspective to understand the reality of martial art.
(Shahram)
Phoenix JKD