Master Liu's Lecture

Peter Ying

1. The training camp is hard, but it is also a good experience. Practicing martial art makes you healthy. Having a good constitution is the basis of your studying and career, and it also makes you and your parents feel good.

2. The most important aim of martial art is “rectifying hearts and cultivating persons”, therefore it can increase our determination and perseverance. Of course, we know that the benefit of martial art cannot be seen through short- time practice. We will find the effects after long- time practice.

3. When you encounter any question about martial art, you have to think and ask. Discuss and experiment with everybody so we can improve.

4. Practicing martial art can adjust your physical condition, including the condition of your tendons, bones, and muscles. But do not do too much more than what your bodies can handle, otherwise you might hurt you bodies, or even your souls.

5. Practicing martial art is a good way to “vent”. When you are in a bad mood, you can perform a routine or hit the air to let go of your glum feeling, and you may feel better.

6. Sometimes we shout when we practice, and there are two starting point of voices: Tan-T’ien (in lower abdomen) and lungs. “Hah” from Tan-T’ien and “Hun” from lungs.

7. Here in the mountains you have to give up your connections to the world, suppress your desires, and fully concentrate on practice. Be serious in practice and active in leisure time.

8. Everyday we have to care for three parts of our bodies: head, abdomen, and leg. (1) Cold in head and calm in mind, (2) empty in abdomen and not too full in stomach, (3) warm in legs and activate body.

9. A human body is a small cosmos. Three meals a day are similar to seasons of the year. Eat will at breakfast, just like buds need plenty of nutrition when sprout in spring. Make yourselves full at lunch, for living things act a lot and need enough food supply in summer. Have less food at dinner, like rice and wheat are ready for harvest and need less in autumn. Or we don’t even eat anything in the evening, like crops being laid up and some animal hibernate.

10. Be stable when you perform a style. Be serious in every posture and movement. Comprehend and realize that “eyes move with hands”, “hands revolve with waist”, and “steps change with body”.

11.Martial art’s practice must fit with physiology and dynamics. Fitting with physiology is to let your organs stable and stay where they are supposed to, and fitting with dynamics is to use your strength according to dynamics.

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March 2009