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A students perspective……
THE first ever night I came along to Chen Loong, I was very
nervous. I was preoccupied with thoughts of muscle men, being
all aggressive and beating people up. How wrong could I have
been !
Pol did have a chat with me before I started, but the fear of
the unknown was strong. What I actually found was something
totally different. I could not have imagined or anticipated
the incredible atmosphere or the wealth of happiness joining
Chen Loong has brought me.
The physical and the mental sides are very hard, but when you
put determination into it, the great feelings of calmness, achievement
and overall well being are amazing.
I have made great friends and feel like I have joined a family
and a team, and this is a very special place to be.
My simple message is, that no matter how hard it gets, or how
frustrated you may be, you must always carry on with it. As
last months saying said 'Fall down seven times, get up eight'.
Blood, sweat and tears fall from us in the training room, but
the personal rewards you will reap for your perseverance are
worth every drop…..
Amanda |
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| BODIDHARMA (Da Mo) was
the founder and first patriarch of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. (Ch'an
means meditation or concentration of mind.) In Japan he is known
as Bodai Daruma or just Daruma. Historical records are hazy
about Da Mo but there are many stories and legends about him
and his connection to Shaolin Temple. |
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A combination of 'Hung Loong' (The
Chinese Dragon) and 'Y Ddraig Goch' (The Welsh |
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Chen Loong which means 'Red, or Thunder Dragon'. |
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This symbol is also known as Ti and
Tien (earth and heaven), the symbol of dualism or 'The two powers
of nature', the two great regulating forces of cosmic order.
It originally referred to the dark (yin) side of the mountain
and to the sunlit (yang) side. |
To the Chinese, yin qualities
are more female, dark, solid, substantial, negative, cool and
tending to move downward. Things that are more yang are the
reverse-more masculine, light, immaterial, positive, warm and
tending to move upward.
There is a point of white in the black and a point of black
in the white since there is no being which does not contain
within itself the germ of its opposite. There is no male wholly
without feminine characteristics and no female without its masculine
attributes.
They are not two absolute and irreconcilable opposing forces
but are different aspects of the whole, the two sides of one
coin. |
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