Day 290 - Do you have strong kung fu?

I just finished watching a Netflix original series, Marco Polo, of which I found thoroughly entertaining.  I do not know if it is historically accurate or not, but that does not matter to me because, for one, history is just 'his-story' and thus who knows what really happened, and also because I am not watching it for a history lesson anyway. 

In one of the episodes, Marco Polo, who is a westerner from Venice Italy, given to the Emperor Kublai Khan to be his man-servant by his own father against his will, is being trained in the arts of Kung Fu, as per the order of the Emperor.  That's not so bad for slave, right? 

Anyway, in one of the lessons, Marco's instructor, a blind and totally awesome kung fu fighting machine, went on to explain to Marco that kung fu is not  limited to just martial arts.  His instructor, who's name I forgot, went on to explain to Marco that Kung Fu is anything that you dedicate yourself to with everything that you have, where you do it every day for hours a day, with repetition, until you perfect that what you do. 

This, made me excited because I was like thinking about process, and what it means to really stop the mind and what it really means to gradually and then finally step in and take one's place as the director of self, where the mind no longer has any power or control over self.  And within this, I realized, that stopping the mind is like a form of kung fu.  It takes dedication, with all that one has, where one dedicates him/her self daily within the self application of meticulously going through every single thought and mind construct that exists within self; and then, through self reflection, self-honesty, self commitments, and then finally self application through repetition - where one repeats the newly formed self commitments and scripts over and over again until finally one acts naturally as the director of self.

Also, the character Chancellor Chin Han, the Chancellor of the Song Dynasty in China who played the antagonist / evil villain character, he too had strong kung fu.  He practiced Praying Mantas Kung Fu, of which had the virtues of the praying mantas such as patience, deception, calmness, and strikingly fast when finally attacking; and of which I am also highly fascinated with.  Chancellor Han, like the mantas, never flinched, was patient to always wait for the right opportunities, was skilled in crafting illusions, and would strike lethally when necessary, until his dying breath where Han was executed by Kublai Khan after his defeat.  Han, although an evil villain, was a remarkable character in that he never reacted to any news, no matter how bad, and always remain calm and poised, until the bitter end.  This was part of Chin Han's kung fu.   The art of always being here, breathing, stable, and poised under any and all circumstances. 

And this will be my kung fu.

I commit myself and dedicate myself to a life long process of self application where I will meticulously go through every point where I exist in the mind, sort it out in all of its details, forgive it, re-script myself, and then apply my realizations through repetition until it becomes my living nature to always be here, clear, poised, and un-reactive, and breathing, no matter what I face or what my circumstances are. 

Do you wish to have strong kung fu too?  Then walk with me on this same journey.   And let's lethally execute the mind that has been possessing us for all this time.