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Sensei's Welcoming Note
The viewpoint of the Traditional Martial Arts
is that we are a spiritual being with a physical
manifestation, where the mind goes the spirit or chi follows, and that the
physical is nothing more or less than a manifestation of chi.
Control of our prevalent mental attitude
is one of the major tools for controlling our reality.
In this case like attracts like, positive attracts positive and negative
attracts negative.
Therefore, it is up to us to decide whether we want to
be Positive, supportive and constructive or Negative,
critical and destructive.
The choice is ours.
The Dojo or Place of the Way is pointed in the
direction of Self-Improvement
and Spiritual
Development through
Austere Physical Training.
The kicking and punching is the means not the end. The etiquette and process
is the vessel.
So please remember that
attitudes are contagious.
We must all make a special effort to keep things positive when at the Dojo
or whenever we are with other Dojo members.
Engi - the law of
interdependence of all in the Dojo demands that seniors lead by example, and
juniors follow the good example of the seniors.
The Way is in the Training.
I.e. It's not about you, it's about the training.
The CMAC Agenda
Education not just Entertainment
The goal of CMAC is to teach traditional martial arts in a positive
environment and in a Canadian context.
Bun Bu Ryu Do - The Way of Pen and Sword Oneness
1/3 Austere Physical Training, 1/3 Protracted Meditation, 1/3 Mental
Assimilation.
While at the Dojo, the element of
austere physical training
is the most obvious. To this end we have literally
traveled the world to be able to bring you a complete program of the highest
quality of martial arts to our Dojo.
The ultimate goal of
perfection of character
requires that we endeavour to cleanse, build and lead
our intrinsic energy. Much like our daily shower, we must first cleanse our
energy and learn how to utilize it to create a positive element- Iron Shirt,
or Peng Jin, and have this positivity manifest in our daily lives.
The Mental component begins with the basic
readings outlined in the Student Manuals, but the goal is expansion and
expansion and
emancipation of the mind.
The Zen method was to awaken the student to the myriad
of possibilities and realities that exist in the infinite while keeping us
firmly grounded in the here and now.
This of course puts us on a different road
than most (the Western scientific measure of disorder which states that in
this reality in any enclosed system, entropy or disorder increases over
time) as we endeavour to decrease our entropy or increase the order of the
closed system that is ourselves in the belief that if we affirm this for
ourselves, we can help our community, country, World and Universe.
This we affirm for all sentient beings
without exception because of course the goal of enlightenment is to move
beyond the subject/object dichotomy, i.e. beyond us and them, here and
there.
"There are more things in Heaven and
Earth that are dreamt on in your philosophies"
-Hamlet
If not you then who?
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