So you want The True Martial Art, but you don’t like the idea of spending a lifetime getting there. There is a way that nobody does, though everybody knows about it, and it is simple. Horse Meditation is the name of this method.
The most you’ll see in today’s martial arts schools are a minute of punishment. The true value of the exercise is passed on, used as punishment, or just avoided. After all, how long would little Johnny’s parents foot the bills if he came home and complained that the instructor was making him suffer?
To do Horse Meditation the way it was meant to be done, the way that brings enlightenment, one must be willing to undergo pain and transition. We all know that pain tells a person he is in danger, it is a warning system that is telling a person to get out of there. But, and I am not simply selling masochism here, pain understood can be truly enlightening.
Spread the legs, bend the knees, squat until your thighs are almost parallel with the ground. Raise one arm in a high block, and extend the other arm to the side with the hand in a whip, or chicken beak. Turn your head and look at the chicken beak and focus on it, and concentrate on breathing deeply.
Within a minute your legs will be trembling, your face will be white, and you will be sure sure that you are going to die. The pain in your legs will become more than you can bear, and you will know, sure as OJ is guilty, that your legs are suffering permanent damage. Finally, you gasp, whine, break stance, and look at the clock, 90 seconds.
What you did wrong was listen to the pain. Pain is a warning device, yes, but it can be overridden easily by a firm and determined will. If you can override the pain you will find The True Art.
Are you really going to die? The answer is a big negative. Thus, you must prove that it is you in charge of your body, and not the other way around, you must overcome the warning pain.
So you take a stance and stand there, and you say no when the pain builds. It really is that simple, you change your mind, and you stay there, you say no, and within five minutes you will find that the pain totally and absolutely disappears. And then you’re going to find The True Art…and I tell you, it is not what is taught in today’s entertainment, celluloid based, fantasy inducing dojos, it is something that you never dreamt of and which will change you for all of your days.
