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POST 208 – June 28, 2015
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In this Post 208 you will find:
-Solstice Celebration
-Adagio
for a Quyen/Kata
-Pictures: Zen garden in Gatineau
SOLSTICE CELEBRATION
Dear all,
The beautiful Summer Season
has now started with all the promises for happiness and success. Did you see
the pictures of the Native Solstice Celebration posted on our web (www.clubmasterhoang.blogspot.com)
last week-end ? Native people in North America have over ten thousand years
of history, so the dance you see on these pictures could be rooted very far
in the past, and probably it could be the oldest form of human kind dance.
During this celebration, at some point, I noticed a similarity of this dance
with some passages of the classic opening form of the Vietnamese grappling
art ‘Vat’ at the Vietnamese New-Year
competition in North Vietnam . The art of Vat is also the oldest discipline
of martial arts in Vietnam. From this observation could we draw any
conclusion that enriches our learning? I am not so sure, but my first
reflection, when I was at the Solstice Celebration, was a feeling that
warriors in the world are people really sensible to the rule of the Nature
Power, no matter today or thousands of years ago. They do not fear to die but
they fear the rule of the Nature Power, the mystery and the punishment beyond
their life. Accomplishing ceremonial dance is a manifestation of the will of
being in accordance with the Nature. Martial art without ceremony is a
discipline without soul.
But what is ‘ceremony’? It
is not just the official Salute you do in many occasions; this is only an
appearance, not the ‘soul’. The soul of ‘ceremony’ lays in each movement you
perform with attention and deep mind; you give a soul to your gesture and
make all the difference for it. What’s a pleasure in our life when we reach
that spiritual level!
When I left the park after
the Solstice Celebration walking alone on the narrow path along the Rideau
River, I felt being in connection with a kind of cosmic energy. I stopped
near a rock and executed a quyen (Song-Diep) on the background music Adagio
of Albinoni, played from my cellphone. Many great thanks to Edio and Lorena
for their precious contribution on this Adagio. The sky was transcendental that
evening.
g.m.
(June 2015)
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