Other forms

We teach a number of forms derived from the Yang Cheng Fu form, including sword, staff and 2-person sets.

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Thanks very much for the weekend. It was really good to get away and I thought the atmosphere was extremely friendly, good-natured and harmonious with none of the negativity so often associated with groups. You worked so hard you must be knackered.

I had an hours sleep when I got home and felt 100% better. I just had a shower and prepared new bed linen for the nights sleep. It feels like such a luxury after the bunk beds and especially given how knackered my body feels!

Anyway, thank you again and see you on Monday, if I wake up by then!!
(Sagara)

It's all made up

Zen koan are very good fun. They wake you up.

Read a few koan (or Krishnamurti) and you begin to realise that almost everything is made up.

Conventions, ideas, beliefs and traditions encase our lives. When you see how much is made up, you find an enormous reservoir of humour within. So much that we worry about isn't actually real. It was all made up. It is only real if you believe it to be.

Consider: engagement, marriage, fidelity, infidelity, trust, faith, authority, hierarchy, money, mortgages, loans, commitment, debt, insurance, fashion, prestige, status and meaning.

The list is relentless, feel free to add your own topics.

None of it is really real. If you grew up in the jungle, raised by chimps, would you care about your car? Why do you care, now? Because somebody conditioned you to be bothered.

Welcome to the real world, Neo.