subject: I Used Martial Arts To Cut Open His Chest...and Found The Real Me [print this page] I had been studying the martial arts for over twenty years when this happened. I had studied Chinese Kenpo and Kwon Bop Korean Karate, Wing Chun and Aikido, and lots of other things. I was working in a door factory, and some of the fellows knew that I was a martial arts fanatic.
One lunchtime, one of my coworkers asked me to show him some martial arts. We went into a room at the rear of the factory. It was hard to see and quite noisy, and we had to really concentrate to hear each other.
I was showing him basic suburito sword exercises, which are Aikido sword fighting drills. I was showing him how to stand the right way, and how to hold the sword straight up in a ready position. Suddenly, I felt a huge force take hold of my body; it was like I had been grabbed by the hand of a 100 foot tall giant.
I couldn't stop the motion of the sword, and it sliced down behind me. A guy named Eddie had been sneaking up on me, and the sword cut through his plaid shirt and into the flesh of his chest. It was a ragged wound, blood poured out, and he staggered back against a stack of pallets and clutched at his chest.
It was time for first aid, and Eddie was going to have to go to the hospital and get his chest sewn back together. While we were standing there, trying to stop the blood, I asked Eddie, "What were you doing?" He looked up at me and said, "I was going to get you, man.
I was going to grab you. It was just a joke, I thought it would be funny." Sensing something under his words, I asked him, "What were you thinking, right when it happened?"
He frowned, "I thought I was going to get you. Right when I was starting to leap on you I thought, 'Aha...got him!' And then your sword cut me open!"
The flesh is a fence, and the eyes and ears are like searchlights watching what goes on outside the fence. With the martial arts you start moving energy around inside the fence, and you start to become more perceptive. Eventually you become aware outside the flesh. You learn how to see without the eyes and ears.
And, you become aware that you are more than just a body, you are a 100 foot giant spiritual being. The point here is that whether you study Kenpo or Karate, Kung Fu like Wing Chun, or something else, the answers are there, the martial arts can help you find the real you. You just need to work out hard enough, and in an art that is logical and efficient.
