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The Martial Art Spoken
by Supreme Master Ching Hai Even if our enlightenment is limited, when put into use, it's better than waiting for the big Tao/Truth. So apply whatever you can digest, don't be in a hurry to do miraculous things, see magical things and understand the magical worlds. Do it step by step, no rush. When you learned the ABCs as a child, you just had to learn them well. Then the teacher taught you some sentences, and you digested these sentences, didn't you? Now you know how to learn and how to read. So take your time. How can it be that you are just in kindergarten and you can read "The Story of the Three Realms"? And you blame your teacher for not letting you read it. You can't expect to read a book or sutra when you first go to school or after just a few days. You can't just have expectations and blame the teacher when you haven't learned the little that you have been taught. There's a movie, perhaps you have seen it, called "Karate Kid". It's about an American boy who learned karate. Only after he was beaten up, did he go to the old man. He accepted the boy, since the boy was beaten up too many times by some other karate groups. However, before teaching the boy anything, he had him promise that he would listen to whatever he said, do whatever he taught him to do, and learn well. The boy promised. Then, what was the boy asked to do? Wash and wax cars and floors, clean and paint walls, for many days. Even though he had sore muscles, he couldn't take a break. Finally, the boy couldn't stand it anymore, and complained, "I came for karate, but you teach me nothing!" He was so eager to learn karate to avenge and protect himself, that he thought his teacher was teaching him nothing. It looked like he wasn't learning karate. He complained he was being used and treated as a worker and a slave... He felt he had been tricked and criticized his teacher a lot. So, the teacher asked him: "How do you wipe the car?" He told the boy to pretend he was wiping the car, and the boy bent down and began to wipe the car in the air. The teacher said, "No, it's okay to stand and wipe. Just keep doing that movement." Then his teacher attacked him, and the boy used that very movement to block him. He was able to do it. Then the teacher told him to "wipe the walls with both hands," and he attack him again. The boy blocked the punch again while he was "wiping the walls". The teacher kept attacking him, but he kept blocking the attack by moving in the same way as he did his daily work. The things his teacher told him to do were not just ordinary tasks, but had been transformed into kung fu moves. For example, if we just wipe randomly, that would be different. His movements were techniques. He said to wipe from here to there; from there, down; then, left; then, right like this. These were all kung fu movements. Usually, one would be practicing the same movements in the studio. It's better to use them all the time. He had taught the boy only two months and he became proficient in kung fu. So he had to apply the techniques in his daily chores. Otherwise, just by practicing two-and-a-half hours a day for two months, one couldn't compare with those who've practiced for years - especially when the boy had never practiced kung fu before. He was just an ordinary boy, and within two months he was trained and became the best in the United States. This was because his teacher told him to use the moves in his daily work, such as scrubbing the floor. So everything he did became kung fu practice. In this way, he learned all the techniques very well in just two months. Similarly,
sometimes a Master teaches us something, and doesn't let us know that
we're being taught. If a Master announces, "I'm teaching you,"
it would be too lousy. His life is his teaching. His speech and deeds
are all there to teach us. He has this quality naturally. Therefore,
if we're waiting, expecting some magic or wonders to occur, we'll
be further away from our goal; we'll be looking too far beyond. So,
I've told you that you'll be able to observe and gain enlightenment
from various aspects in your daily work.
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