The True Value of Chinese Wushu Wudu

The True Values of Chinese Wushu Martial Virtue

Wushu is not just about practicing martial arts, but also about martial arts learning, which is the essential essence of this art.

Chinese martial arts, like Chinese morality and other cultures, arts and civilizations nurtured by morality, have changed and declined in recent history.

I: Looking at the Rise and Fall, Looking Back

How did the Chinese martial arts fall in the moral context of modern society?

First of all, it is the moral slippage; because in history, morality produces civilization, art, and culture, so different cultures, arts, and occupational civilizations have their virtues, for example, doctors have to have medical virtues, people practicing martial arts have to have martial arts virtues, businessmen have to have the morality of fair trade, politicians have to be incorruptible and love the people, and all walks of life have to talk about occupational morality; imagine that any art and occupation without morality will lose its value .

Chinese martial arts have been handed down from ancient times in their own unique way. The people of that time were simple and moral, and among them, those who repaired chains were highly skilled in martial arts. In the mountains, on the banks of the blue water, they met strange people, gained inspiration, the body and mind transcendence, melted into the Tao, and made great achievements, created boxing, the sword path became the Tao, and the swordsmen prospered. In those days, his fist was as free as his heart, his sword as free as his limbs, and a generation of masters appeared and disappeared among the common people. He would still pass it on to his hand-picked disciples of high morals in crowds, in clouds, in moonlight, in the morning light, telling them, "Don't pass it on easily if it's not moral."

After a number of years, disciples who became masters might open their doors to teach their disciples if they could not find someone of high moral character, and then cultivate their morals while teaching martial arts. Those with good morals are granted high ranked martial arts. Therefore, throughout history, Chinese martial arts have been passed down in two ways: first, selecting people to teach; second, teaching people to cultivate their character.

But the purpose of both methods is one, that is, martial arts is the most important.

The inheritance of Chinese martial arts stems from martial virtues, and martial virtues stem from morality. To this day, it is evident for all to see that the moral background of the Chinese nation has been destroyed, and the Chinese martial arts have declined along with the decline of morality.

If a person loses his higher spiritual beliefs, does not believe in God or Buddha, he will be influenced by material things and desires. Whatever cultural, artistic and technical endeavors he engages in will lose their true value. Worse still, some artistic, cultural and technical skills are mastered by people with low morals.

Lao Tzu said: the tools of the state are not used. Sun Tzu said: the whole army goes up, and the broken army follows. It is reasoned that force exists and should not be used lightly. For those who practice martial arts, their martial virtues come from morality and faith. A person of virtue must first discern good and evil; his virtue will be revealed and his actions will stop evil and promote good.

With the decline of morality in history, martial arts masters and disciples inherited, some of them gradually emphasize fame and fortune over martial virtues, which is the result of neglecting morality in a society governed by the rule of law. Martial arts can be fought for the country and the people, but distinguishing between good and evil, good and evil, right and wrong, is the most basic and important martial virtue.

Ancient chain practitioners, who emphasized faith and morality and were indifferent to fame and fortune, were very strict in choosing their disciples, and their morality must be high. Virtue and martial arts must be refined, and kung fu is also high. When mankind entered the period of the end of faith, the overall morality declined, so did the martial arts, and it was difficult to go deeper in martial arts.

If a society loses its faith in Buddhism and Taoism, the politicians of that society can't talk about honesty and love for the people, businessmen put profit before everything else, the medical ethics of doctors can't be guaranteed, and there will be endless public evils in the industrial production of a promise that is not a promise. If a person does not practice martial arts, he will be complicit in the evils of the world, bully the good and fear the evil, and become an unrighteous person; there is no morality in all walks of life.

Distinguishing between good and evil and stopping evil and promoting good is the first priority of martial arts. If good and evil are not distinguished, even if some kung fu skills are superior

Two: the universe has its own characteristics, and the mind knows the secrets.

When mentioning martial arts in China, people will think of Bruce Lee when they fall in love in Manton, without realizing that martial arts is a traditional Chinese culture with far-reaching connotations.

The ancient sages had predicted that the three religions would be destroyed in the last days and the world would be in danger. At that time, conscious people widely disseminated the Dhamma so that people could be saved and even morally restored.

In recent years, New Tang TV has organized a world-wide Chinese martial arts competition to promote traditional martial arts and righteousness. But the reverence for tradition should be based on martial virtues, because the most fundamental martial virtue is to first discern good and evil, and to stop the evil and promote the good. Because of martial arts, this person will practice martial arts according to the laws of heaven, earth, man and the universe. Therefore, he will be able to distinguish between good and evil, good and evil, and he will be able to suffer and be appreciated by his master. Such a person will not expend his energy for some personal grudges and fame. He practiced his own martial arts and didn't even care about winning or losing fame. Instead, he could look down on fame and fortune, so he could concentrate on what he was practicing. What's more, his martial arts were highly respected, and his martial arts were all about stopping evil and promoting good. According to the principle that good and evil are rewarded, the end result of goodness is good because he is good. This is

Here, we say martial arts, but also want to say that the true victory over evil martial arts skills and techniques, including the chain of virtues to repair the wisdom learned. Superior martial arts and martial skills are more than just fighting skills. Singling out the fighting part of martial arts is not the most important part of traditional martial arts. The martial art of wugong is only a by-product of the martial arts, it contains more moral and artistic training, suffering, understanding and wisdom to form a high martial art. This martial art is the morality of the practitioner, to stop the evil and promote the good.

In fact, martial arts in martial arts is wisdom. A person with high kung fu can defuse the opponent's attack until the point, which can also show the martial art of suppressing evil and promoting good. Lions, tigers, and elephants are best if fought alone, but one can overcome or subdue them with wisdom. For example, in ancient times, Sakyamuni could subdue elephants with his empty hands, and monks could subdue fierce beasts, and people today can conquer fierce beasts with human wisdom. The same is true of martial arts between people. Any sparring match must have its own rules. Wrestling, for example, does not allow counter-joints, whereas takedowns are specifically counter-joints. Boxing has completely different rules than kickboxing. Muay Thai's rules are permissive, but it also has his rules. Chinese wrestling has the most civilized rules and the most elegant movements. Traditional martial arts, if borrowed, can also show unique kung fu and wisdom. In the old days, Zhang Sanfeng's Tai Chi was never used to fight against other skills, but only to chain repair with its Tai Chi assisted mental skills. To this day, although Tai Chi has been altered and twisted, its mental skills have been lost. From the boxing movements alone, it is mainly a soft fist, but when it succeeds, it is not afraid to be fierce and hard, so you can see the wisdom of your push.

The reverence for martial virtues is the fundamental hope for the revival of traditional Chinese martial arts.

Morality includes many factors that can pass on the true tradition, because virtue can be taught by a wise teacher, suffering is also virtue, so it is good to have moral enlightenment, so wisdom can be born. With wisdom, it is natural to be able to distinguish between good and evil, but not to be able to distinguish between good and evil, so it is easy to reverse right and wrong and help others. Discerning good and evil is the true martial virtue.

Thirdly, reviving traditional martial arts and devaluing fame and fortune is one of the elements of martial arts.

There is one realm of martial arts, which is virtue, intention.

There is a spirit of selfless sacrifice in martial arts, which is righteousness. Mencius said, "Life is what I want, and righteousness is what I want, and you can't have both. You must sacrifice your life for justice." Righteousness has been recognized as a virtue in martial arts since ancient times

The Prince of Pingyuan wanted to make him a knight, but Zhonglian refused. Prince Plain hosted a banquet for his guests. When the wine was finished, he got up and walked up to say thank you with his daughter. Lian said: people respect the people of the world simply because they can help others overcome difficulties and eliminate disasters and chaos without any reward. If you want any reward, you are a businessman. I despise being such a person. So I said goodbye to Lord Ping Yuan and never visited him again. In the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yunchang was known as the Once Upon a Time in America for his sealing gag, traveling thousands of miles alone. When Zhang Sanfeng was young, he was a great swordsman and cultivated a path of passage, which was y hidden. Some bad guys did evil, Sanfeng only used an invisible Tai Chi ball to spin, and the thugs flew far out and landed on the ground, unable to move. Due to the lack of virtue in later generations, Sanfeng's mental skills were lost.

A few generations later to the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Zhengnan, the heir to the Wudang family boxing style, acquired the mysteries of Wudang. Every time he encountered many strong enemies, he was lucky to win and escape. The epitaph written for him by Huang Zongxi, a Confucian scholar of the Ming and Qing dynasties, exclaims, "It is sadly ambitious to have such skills and yet give them nothing, no help at all. Shallow mountains are old, lonely graves rest in peace, according to this inscription, several tests." I actually appreciate his superior martial arts skills. I don't want to display them for the sake of fame and fortune, and I don't need money for poverty in my later years. Only mountains and rivers and lonely graves can prove it!

Nowadays, some martial arts practitioners are keen on fame, fortune and fighting. Isn't it a shame to compare with the ancients? It can be seen that righteousness is the spirit of sacrifice of the benevolent, but also the embodiment of wisdom and courage. Isn't it essential for those who practice martial arts? The ancients watched martial arts less focused on intense fights. Yun Chang in the Three Kingdoms was praised as a martial arts saint by later generations, but no one looked down on Lu Bu, the tiger and wolf of the Third Household Slave. Dong Haichuan, Li Luoneng, and Yang Lu Chan, three teachers at the Normal University in the late Qing Dynasty, learned from each other and respected each other, which flowed through their boxing theories, but they never cared about which level. Together, they are called the Fist of the Family within the Family, showing the realm of a superior person.

Four: One heart and one mind.

So the essence of traditional Chinese martial arts is martial virtue, meaning to do evil and promote good. For example, a doctor can make a living by curing diseases, but his medical skill is not only to make money, his medical virtue is to cure diseases and save people. Just as a businessman should do business to serve the public, not just to make a profit, his business ethics is to provide convenience for people. The virtue of politics should be to serve the country and the people, not to use one's power for personal gain and to harm others; these should be the indispensable moral concepts of today's human beings. The martial virtues mentioned here are only a small part of human morality. In short, only if everyone is moral, human beings can be free from mutual harm and move towards a better life.