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All these complex messes are actually futile attempts to “arrest” and “fix” the ever-changing movements in combat and to dissect and analyze them like a corpse. Real combat is not fixed and is very much “alive.” Such means of practice (a form of paralysis) will only “solidify” and “condition” what was once fluid and alive. When you get off sophistication and whatnot and look at it “realistically,” these robots (practitioners, that is) are blindly devoting themselves to the systematic uselessness of practicing “routines” or “stunts” that lead nowhere.

Gung fu is to be looked through without fancy suits and matching ties, and it will remain a secret when we anxiously look for sophistication and deadly techniques. If there are really any secrets at all, they must have been missed by the seeking and striving of its practitioners (after all, how many ways are there to come in on an opponent without “deviating too much from the natural course”?). True, gung fu values the wonder of the ordinary, and the cultivation of gung fu is not daily increase but daily decrease. Being wise in gung fu does not mean adding more, but to be able to do away with ornamentation and be simply simple—like a sculptor building a statue not by adding, but by hacking away the unessential so that the truth will be revealed unobstructed. In short, gung fu is satisfied with one’s bare hands without the fancy decoration of colorful gloves, which tend to hinder the natural function of the hand.

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