Firm body, unsurpassable mind, expansion, fire
The human being tries to better himself. Individual perfection is present in the beginning of our self-acknowledgment, our presence, our existence. The concept of perfection is, within kung-Fu, a personal voyage. One of differences, agreements and disagreements, of constant learning, mistake and moving on, of open eyes and skilful mind. Each person in his own way. The mind open to the awareness of the journey/life is one of the great steps of our evolution.
“Even inside the greatest ocean, one can die of thirst if the mouth is kept shut.”
Kung-Fu is born from our being as one, as unique individuals open to the universe, absorbing its essence and providing it with answers. Individual, completion: Yin-Yang.
The Lotus flower is born from the most unclean mud and transforms itself into a symbol of beauty, a symbol of spiritual enrichment, of divine and genuine. Although its roots are in the dark bottom of this world, its petals rise to the full light. This flower of fascinating vibrations is present throughout all the narratives of eastern civilization. It is the symbol for the sun, for rebirth and creation. In Ancient Egypt it was said that the sun came out from a Lotus flower.
Just like Man gets lost everyday in the unconsciousness of sleep, traveling through fantastic worlds, submersed in unattainable energies, so does the Lotus flower sink itself in the swamp mud every night to revive the next morning. Transformation from chaos.
It is the summing up of material and immaterial, of the deepest and the highest, of darkness and light, of the restrictions of identity and the immeasurable universality, of the sculpted and the shapeless.
Chaos = Universe = Order: Yin-Yang
Lotus flower Kung-Fu
Lotus flower Kung-Fu is born from the compilation of several styles of Kung-Fu, in the personal research of Guilherme da Luz. He adapts them to him, to nowadays and to the people who followed its path since the very beginning in 1995. This method of Kung-Fu has turned into a more internal place, giving room to the exploration of a martial art with deep connections to healing and meditation. All these relationships happening from the inside to the outside and not derived from warrior attitudes which take the opposite direction. This is where the real struggle takes place. The struggle within. With ourselves.
This method of Kung-Fu has 7 main stages. Seven just like the first seven steps of Siddhartha (who would later become Buda) from which seven Lotus flowers were born. So, each Bodhisattva’s step is an accomplishment of spiritual expansion. Each one of the stages of Lotus flower Kung-Fu is a synonym for aesthetic bettering to the body and mind.
In these 7 main stages combining movements of arms and legs, a journey of several styles makes way to a creative, free setting which provides importance to the nature of each individual. Kung-Fu applied to what each person can give. No limitations. The only restriction is doing it just like the other one. That is why being unique is the key. Finding the movement and the art we have inside, applied to martial movement. Aesthetics versus Logic.
“Man is like a bottle filled with water, very well closed, tossed into the middle of the ocean. It has inside the same substance that the ocean is made of but his mind (the cork) stops him from becoming one with that immensity.”
Moment
The moment to exist is now. Individual work is now. It was not and it will not be!
Just like the right moment to move your fist towards the target, our mind takes action in the right moment to interact with what is around us. One simply has to be aware of the opportunity. To have the perception of being in the right place at the right time.
“A love from the past is only a memory.
A future love is nothing but a fantasy.
True love lives here and now.” (Buda)
Having in mind physical positions of anatomic correction together with an intense use of respiration, the whole body builds itself like a machine which connects our untouchable mind with the untouchable Universe. Substance versus non substance: Yin-Yang.
To feel the body. Talk to him, understand very well what we are inside what we have. Do we belong to our body or is it the body which belongs to us!?
The real purpose of Kung-Fu is to cultivate the love for living, for being alive and feeling alive. To be creative with our own body, to feel every instant our heart beats. An unceasing way of loving. Permanent and eternal orgasm…
Text by João Leitão / English translation by Luís Seco.
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