The one pasted to this thread shows hyperlink to wingchunonline.com, who republished the text around the same time as hawkinscheung.com, but wingchunonline and a litany of other sites (who are probably just copy/pastes of the wingchunonline text) are milking this text for search engine rank, without citation to the original publisher, "Inside Kung-Fu".

I believe the same sort of thing. Although I'm not Buddhist, I follow the pentagram idea somewhat, which is more directly related to this than basic Buddhism is.

The pentagram is the star with five points surrounded by a circle. The cricle is the wheel of life, the lines of the star is the cycle of destruction. The five elements, following the wheel of life, are, Void, Fire, Earth, Air, Water.

The fifth/first element, Void, is difficult to comprehend. As Musashi put it, "It is not included in mans knowledge." Put simply, the brain/body is constructed of entirely physical things (the other four elements). Thus, the brain cannot comprehend the Void because it's not created of it in any way. You could say a person comprehending the Void is as silly as a robot thinking he's a real living person. It's the same idea.

I think Bruce Lee said about the Void, "Do not name it."

My view of the Void, though to hold a view on this subject perhaps is to admit you're a mislead fool, though I'd still put it roughly to be something along the lines of the essence of existence. In that sense, it's life. The pentagram clearly states water creates the next step, thus it's safe to assume water is creating life. Though what we cannot claim to know is exactley what life is. Although we may be it (life), our CPU, our brain, is not.

So I agree with you; I do not think the Void can be sliced and seperated. I do not believe there truly is such thing as an individual in the greater sense, and there's no such thing as I. In this understanding, there's also no real birth or death, either. There just "is".

Science goes hand in hand.. particularly physics/chemistry when we go to think of the Law of Thermodynamics that states that energy is not created nor destroyed but is converted into different forms and continues travelling.  So from a martial arts perspective we do a parry or a block diverting the energy and absorbing some of the impact.  On a smaller level, there is an exchange of heat energy and other forces and the air we breathe in and out enters within our bloodstream, etc., and so movements are happening 'through' us, even though we tend to have the common misconception that it is simply 'US' doing the movement, since energy is universal and we are merely sharing it with all other things (we learn this especially from sensitivity drills done in filipino arts and wing chun).  This goes back to what was said earlier because of our subjective reality we tend to think of 'US' versus 'ENEMY' and is an old adaptational disposition within our neurology.  To get back to the quote, we are dependant upon the interaction with the universe for our own existence, and an enemy or opponent can not exist because they are merely completing movements dictated by scientific laws and universal energy.  This mode of thought can be a useful tool for understanding conflict and mental preparation for a competitive fight or if a self defense altercation ever occurs, using this mental framework can help control our nerves that have been wired to benefit our chances of survival in the past.  - Rob

I´d like to share my views of martial arts. I think martial arts has to use for something positive, not for something bad. Like my master used to say: "Good training produces good character, bad training produces bad character".

What do you think about that ? Is it that easy ?

Like physical and mental is one, mental state is a reflaction of the physical conidition ?

So therefor, do I have to controll my physical behavior to let my mental be better ?

And what means correct physical moving for the martial arts to be also a better human being ?

Greetings to Sifu Jin from Germany