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To me the extraordinary aspect of gung fu lies in its simplicity. Gung fu is simply the “direct expression” of one’s feeling with the minimum of movements and energy. Every movement is being so of itself without the artificialities with which people tend to complicate it. The easy way is always the right way, and gung fu is nothing at all special; the closer to the true Way of gung fu, the less wastage of expression there is.

Instead of facing combat in its suchness, quite a few systems of martial art accumulate a “fancy mess” that distorts and cramps their practitioners and distracts them from the actual reality of combat, which is “simple” and “direct” and “nonclassical.” Instead of going immediately to the heart of things, flowery forms and artificial techniques (organized despair!) are “ritually practiced” to simulate actual combat. Thus instead of “being” in combat, these practitioners are idealistically “doing” something about combat. Worse still, supermental this and spiritual that are ignorantly incorporated until these practitioners are drifting further and further into the distance of abstraction and mystery, until what they do resembles anything from acrobatics to modern dancing, but not the actual reality of combat.