Do Not Ask God For Help

"Do not ask God for help." This is a part of words of wisdom from Japanese strongest Swordsman, Musashi Miyamoto. He killed a lot of his enemies. It was sometimes necessary to protect own life. Some time he was just trying his strength. Musashi fought sixty times in his life without losing any. In the history of Martial Arts, skills for fighting, many of legendary swordsmen wrote their own record or diary. The most of them seem be truthful. These records are precious testimony to learn inside of these masters of combat skills.

The noteworthy, at the same time common on these masters' records, is that these records shows that these Martial Arts masters became almost like philosophers of human beings' most important subject, life and death. Many principles came from Buddhism concepts. Musashi has his record. He stopped fighting at his age fifty. He lived in a forest. He painted several paintings. All of them are masterpieces. He wrote about his bio, history, and state of mind in fighting. The document is called "Go-Rin No Sho" in Japanese. English translation of the title is "Book of Five Rings".

"Five Rings" represent five basic factors, which forms the universe. They are "CHI - earth", "SUI - water", "KA - fire", "FU - wind", and "KU - sky or emptiness". The book talks about his own life and history in "CHI", basics on sword art skills in "SUI", principles on fighting in "KA", about swordsmanship overall in "FU", and the nature of Martial Arts in "KU".

Musashi did not attribute his winning record to his strength or his own power and skills. He mentioned own history of fighting was his "fate". His winning was only by "God's help". He mentioned that he remembered he would not win any fight if he did not have "God's help". He continued that none of his winning was the result of his strength overcame his enemies. He remembered that he could have lost and killed in any of his sixty times of duels.

Why could he continue to win? He explained that he had "God's help". How can one establish "God's help" to achieve his kind of strength? He continued to teach. He said, "Respect God". He further said, "But, do not ask God for help." His book does not describe exact meaning behind his words of wisdom, unfortunately. Many people have interpreted his words. The closest interpretation would be, "Respect God. Keep one to be clear and pure so that he could establish his relationship with God. Cherish the relation with God." "Do not ask God for help him to bring him a victory." Instead, leave everything to his God. Try to communicate with your God, "All of me is yours. Please take me and bring me whatever He would bring to me." One could call it faith or unconditional trust that one's God will bring goodness to him, always. This could be called as "Unconditional Acceptance". This helps the swordsman to achieve peaceful and stable status of mind. Many masters in history called such status of mind "KU - emptiness".


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Importance of Determination

I wanted to post another Martial Arts related article. It took me a while to find my old movie VCR. I remembered there are many lessons from one of my favorite movie, "Karate Kid".

It was so sad that we lost "Pat Morita" who played the role of Mr. Miyagi, Master of Karate and Teacher of Hero, Daniel. In the early part of this movie, "Karate Kid", the boy is so wanted to learn Karate. Finally the teacher agree to teach him. Starting his first lesson, the teacher asks this boy "Are you ready?". He answers back "I guess so." The teacher did not like his answer.

The teacher tells this boy:
"You walk right side of the road, you are safe. You decide to walk left side, you are safe. But, if you walk in the middle without deciding right or left, soon or later, you will be run over by a car. So, understand if you don't do Karate, OK. If you do Karate, OK. But don't be 'Guess so.'"

I have seen a lot of people who failed because of no determination, no dedication. I myself failed a lot of things because I was not determined. This story tells the importance of determination.


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Ninja Training

Old days in Japan, there are spy people called "Ninja". They have special skills for fighting, spying, destroying enemy information lines, etc...

Training skills, they used to jump growing tree. A tree to jump for training was planted when a baby was borne in Ninja family. They jump several times a day. Not many times. As the tree grow, Ninja could jump high. I thought very small actions continued every day make a large difference.

When I was young (I mean "Younger"?) and actively practice Martial Art, I participated in tournaments several times. I found in most of fights, especially for skillful people, the technique which differentiated winner and loser is not "BIG" and "FLASHY" skill, such as jump kick, high round-case kick, and so on. The winning technique is almost always small, short, quick movement, like short distance paunch, low kick, elbow hit, knee kick.

Watching real tournament fight of Karate, Tae-Kun-do, or Kung-Fu, you might have wondered why actual fights are not like Kung-Fu movies. There are several factors. Small, short moves can be faster and precise. 2 things can be learned.

1. Do not think light of small actions. It may be the final decisive factor.

2. Daily small continuous actions will make a large difference at the end. It will be your winning skill later on.

We should not forget also that continuous training of big techniques will enable you to use small and short, but fast and precise move.

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