Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Five Battles of the True Martial Artist

By Al Case


The following words have extreme importance for a True Martial Artist. "There are five trees in paradise and they do not change, summer nor winter, and their leaves don't fall. Whoever knows these trees will not taste death."

You may be wondering why these words are so vital to the understanding of the martial arts, so let me explain. They were transcribed by a person named Thomas some two millennium ago. They stand for the five circles of man's experience in this life, and they are defined in the following paragraphs.

Physical has to do with the practice of controlling the physical body. To be sure, in the martial arts this is not fighting, but controlling. While there is certainly an art to destruction, the true art may be found in control.

Emotional refers to one controlling his emotions. Practice real martial arts for any period of time and you learn to control your emotion. Emotions, according to the Neutronics definition, are 'motion inside the head.'

Mental refers to the way one thinks, and how to use the mind in a logical and rational fashion. This is where the science of Matrixing rears its head, as it presents a way for analyzing and handling all potentials of motion, and, if you think about it, that's all there is in this universe. The unfortunate truth is that anybody who doesn't understand matrixing is not on the way to mastering the ability to think.

Spiritual deals with a person understanding that they are a bit of awareness giving forth light (awareness), and that creates the universe. This Spiritual Awakening must be experienced, it is not the subject of words. This is the main direction of Neutronics.

Awareness of All deals with knowing the entire universe by knowing all the viewpoints of all the individual 'I ams' that are individual man/woman. This is the God factor, or the ever present power that is the universe. With Matrixing this is not a riddle or enigma, but a logical step on the path begun when one first steps into a dojo.

Do you control yourself on these five levels? Have you used the martial arts to move from level to level in these five arenas? Maybe it is time you started!




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