[I:http://www.abswiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/AlCase26.jpg]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.
Bend the knees and spread the legs, squat until your thighs are almost parallel with the ground. Extend one arm to the side with the hand in a whip, or chicken beak, and raise the other arm in a high block. Turn your head and focus on the chicken beak, concentrate on breathing deeply to below your navel.
Before a minute has passed your legs will be trembling, your face will be white, and you will be sure sure that you are going to die and not go to heaven. The pain in your legs will become excruciating, and you will know, sure as OJ loved his wife, that your legs are going to be permanently disfigured. Finally, you whine, gasp, break stance, and look at the clock, 120 seconds.
The wrong thing to do is pay attention to the pain. Pain can be overridden easily by a firm and determined will. If you can forget about the pain and endure 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 say no when the pain starts to build. You say no, you change your mind, and you stay there, and within a few minutes you will find that the pain absolutely and totally disappears. And you will break through into The True Art…and I tell you, it is not what is taught in today’s entertainment, fantasy inducing, celluloid based dojos, it is something that you never dreamt of and which will change you for all of your days.
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