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○ Be a Frog Outside the Well - Cosmopolitanism
Do you still care about your martial arts organization and even cling to it, which is big or small, popular or not? Discover your teacher who can let you get the basics which will steer you on your right way as a pathfinder for your lifetime training without regard to styles or affiliation in martial arts.
Even presently I can see often some who want to buy or sell dan certificates, and even issue false ones with fake stamp or signature, only for their own profit, bragging their long experiences with a great deal of higher dans. Do not attempt to do anything like that which goes beneath your dignity, as all will definitely come back to you sooner or later.
Well, you might already have a lot of experience - 20 or 30 years or more?, and even you might already have higher dans in some kinds of martial arts? This does not help you get its core.
○ Anyhow, are you happy now in training?
If so, you might be a frog inside the well.
The latest publication, "Searching for the Forgotten Half in Martial Arts" is to let people comprehend the principle of nature, with which all of its advantages are given and shared globally to everyone. As per this publication, whatever humans do in their daily life, let them follow the principle of nature to make a better life, which is true for any academics, politicians, theologians, religion leaders, thinkers, philosophers etc., surely students, instructors and masters in martial arts as well.
What I have been trying so far through Jinyoung Ssangkum Ryu training throughout the world is to attain that goal; two things - one is to teach the principle of nature through Love and the other is to disseminate it for human being's better life and Spiritual growth. How to train and how to get both through martial arts training will be shown within this book.
Both Love and Spiritual growth are a super ordinate concept and is to be based on what we do for lifetime physically, mentally, ideologically, philosophically and religiously within our human community.
The human being is one of the tiniest objects of nature who ought to follow the principle of Energy flow and it is natural for anyone to ought to try to get close to the reality of Energy and Love of Nature - a fundamental factor in all things in heaven and earth.
Therefore, I am sure I can say whatever we do in life is to be a subordinate concept under the principle of Nature as its super ordinate concept. That is to say, I try to teach the basics needed in life through Jinyoung Ssangkum Ryu training which is the reality of Energy.
○ Love & Spiritual Growth - Hongik Ingan (홍익인간, humanitarianism)
The notion of Jinyoung Ssangkum Ryu's essence enables people to grasp this particular brilliant and fundamental core of all ideas, religions, and philosophies. That's why I always stress to say, only if one could get close to the reality of Energy according to one's capabilities and capacities, one may be able to understand and explain not only the essence or core of martial arts training but also in respect to any kind of philosophy or religion and so on.
My recent book (in English) tries to illustrate all things in heaven and earth and how the world works. However, you should bear in mind that I am not going to say I know everything. I would say I know only the fundamental which is Love in life, but even I do not carry it out well enough, which is so normal for human life.
Well, let me get one example for some wider understanding.
The nation's founding principle of our ancestors' era, which is still the same until now in Korea even in the eduational idea, Hongik Ingan (홍익인간, humanitarianism) is well-known in Korea for around ten thousands of years. It epitomizes the idea that benefits people widely and helps them in the most truthful way. Based on it, the country is ruled in a correct way by the principle of the order of all things on heaven and earth.
○ What the Super Ordinate Concept is
JSKR teaches it both a practical and useful manner, which is not just a knowledge we can learn in general as usual. It has to be carried out with body and mind through learning in practice.
It looks very easy to understand, but it takes time to recognize it, which is the starting point for a true practice on perceiving and recognizing it.
When you could realize a true Love given from Nature with your body and mind, you can see it as a super ordinate concept nobody can compete because it is a fundamental essence under one principle.
I would say that, from there, you can create your own pattern step by step gradually, and according to your all-out earnest efforts such that, you wouldn’t have to look at others. Just find it in yourself and build it. You already have the key to get there.
○ Do not Build Castles in the Air
I can see so often that many people show bodily motions with feeling energy for improving the body strength and even the healing power through martial arts training. Yes, this is fine, but it is simply showing you must not always look up at the flowers (outcome) which are growing on a tree, but also look down to see its root (core), thus leading you to understanding all of the tree's flowers.
I mean, the more you go up, the easier it is to fall down, just like building castles in the air. Do not get your efforts and passion stuck into an obstruction, or do not try to build barriers by your own will.
In other words, one should know how to train the basics. For example, these are the principles of how the body moves natually; or where the energy moves; or how to follow the energy; or how it works outside and inside the body, and so on. Because all of them happen irrelevantly of what we do.
Through accomplishing each succeeding stage and despite that we cannot pinpoint each individual's level or stage in an exact manner, it may take many years through a lifetime of an enormusly slow snd tedious work in order for our object to be achieved.
Following Jinyoung Ssangkum Ryu’s training will teach you how to do this work in a proper way such that, you will learn how to reach an ideological and philosophical unity of body and mind - surely up to the point of mastering any martial arts' fundamental.
○ Find True-Self in Yourself - The Original Mind, Kong, Nothingness Area, Creation Zone, etc.
The goal by reaching a completion of a certain stage in following the principle of Nature is to find the True-myself, which is the same as getting into the light of Nature and Love. Not yet superseded by anything else in its being one super ordinate concept, which is ready to be accomplished by all who are inspired, is Love.
○ What the Most Critical Part is The Basics - Energy flow, feel & connect, harmony & balance, Enlightenment - Light; Love
Many people in the world are ideologically and philosophically perfectly aware of this fact, but the most critical part is how to study and cultivate it at this very moment and put it in practice in the 21st century. This book, "Searching for the Forgotten Half in Martial Arts," tries to explain all of the above in a simple and clear way.
April 17th, 2022
JS Kim