windwalker099
2nd Black Belt
Story of 3 cats....
story of cats, different stages of practice.
1. The black cat came forward and said: “ I am able to leap over a screen as high as seven feet; I know
how to squeeze myself through a tiny hole which allows a rat only. I am proficient in performing all kinds of acrobatics. I
am also clever at making the rats think that I am sound asleep, but I know how to strike them as soon as they come within
my reach. Even those running over the beam cannot escape me. It is really a shame that I had to retreat before that old rat
today.
2. The tiger cat now stepped forward and expressed his view thus: I have long trained myself in its cultivation and development. I am now in possession of the strongest spirit, which fills up heaven and earth. When I face an opponent, my overawing spirit is already on him, and victory is on my side even prior to actual combat. I have no conscious scheme as to the use of technical skill, but it comes out spontaneously according to change of situation. If the rat should be running over a beam, I would just gaze at him intensely with all my spiritual strength, and he is sure to fall by himself from the height and be my prisoner. But that old mysterious rat moved along without leaving any shadow. The reason is beyond me
3. The gray cat now advanced quietly and said: “. I have for a long time disciplined myself in this way: not to overawe the enemy, not to force a fight, but to assume a yielding and conciliatory attitude. When the enemy proves strong, I just look yielding and simply follow up his movements. I act like a curtain surrendering itself to the pressure of a stone thrown at it. Even a strong rat finds no means to fight me. But the one we had to deal with today has no parallel, it refused to submit to my psychical overpowering, and was not tempted by my manifestation of a yielding psyche. It was a most mysterious creature – the like of which I have never seen in my life.
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