about kung fu
Topic: intelligent living
Kung Fu is for life, life is not for Kung Fu...

back to blogging
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: MSNBC
Topic: Life

so...havent blogged in a while

very busy, still working on that book

I have a great group of students

2011 has been great, looking foward to an even greater 2012

I'll try to post a new blog entry at least once a week

Stay tuned! 

General Update
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: silence

it's been a while...

The South Jersey Ving Tsun Group on meetup.com may be no more as of 01.30.11 due to a lack of interest. I will continue to teach Ving Tsun but only via private lessons as outlined on the vtkfsystem website. Honestly it will be nice to have more time to focus on writing my book and pursuing my studies in holistic health, metaphysics, and other martial arts disciliplines. I am considering a radio advertising campaign to promote my private lesson curriculum. We'll see what happens.

-Sifu

Greek Philosophy
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Kitaro
Topic: Metaphysics

"Withdraw into yourself and look; and if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as does the sculptor of a statue...cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is shadowed...do not cease until there shall shine out on you the Godlike Splendour of Beauty; until you see temperance surely established in the stainless shrine"

(Plotinus, Ennead, I, 6, 9).

 

a project
Topic: Metaphysics

I am working on a book with the premise of applying the Ving Tsun way of thinking to the topic of metaphysics, so far I have written about 2000 words, not a lot but it's a start. I ask all of my friends and students to send me your positive energy and encouragement so that I can finish this project on or before 11.13.10.

Thank you

-Sifu

 

get the kung fu!
Topic: Ving Tsun
Students;

We are having a great time training down here in Maryland with your Kung Fu uncles. I know there are a variety of reasons why many of you could not make it to this event. At the same time I must add that in the future please try your best to make it to the next major event. These opportunities to meet and touch hands with multiple generations of quality Ving Tsun practitioners are very rare. Always try your best to take advantage of opportunities to be exposed to quality Kung Fu. Gradually Ip Man's student are reaching the point where they will once again be training with their teacher, which means we will no longer be able to train with them. We need to appreciate them while they are here.

-Sifu

Wisdom
Topic: Metaphysics

    "The possession of Knowledge, unless accompanied by a
    manifestation and expression in Action, is like the
    hoarding of precious metals-a vain and foolish thing.
    Knowledge, like wealth, is intended for Use. The Law of
    Use is Universal, and he who violates it suffers by
    reason of his conflict with natural forces."--The Kybalion.

Saturday Early AM Training
Topic: Ving Tsun

http://www.meetup.com/Ving-Tsun-Kung-Fu/

Every Saturday at 9:00 am

Be there or be square...

-Sifu

fee schedule is changing
Topic: Ving Tsun

The fee for private instruction will be changed to a flat rate of $50.00 per hour, please contact Sifu Bryant with any questions you may have about this change.

Thank you.

Sifu B.

 

some things worth pondering...
Topic: Metaphysics

Selected Metaphysical Thoughts from Great Thinkers:

• "The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." -- William James

   

• "Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." -- William James
  

   

• "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." -- William James
  

   

• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -- Albert Einstein

   

• "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

   

• "There is only one great adventure and that is inwards towards the self." -- Henry Miller

   

• "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." -- Buddha

   

• "What we think, we become." -- Buddha

   

• "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned." -- Buddha

   

• "As a man is, so he sees." -- William Blake

   

• "There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." -- William Shakespeare

   

• "There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself." -- Herman Hesse

   

• "The Way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things." -- Mencius

   

• "To the mind that is still, the whole Universe surrenders." -- Taoist ideal

   

• "Yesterday's aches, pains and problems are not a burden here and now unless you brought them with you." -- Lao Tsu

   

• "There is no need to run outside for better seeing, nor to peer from a window. Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it, the less you learn." -- Lao Tsu

   

• "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." -- Carl Gustav Jung

   

• "Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it." -- Rumi

   

• "All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force … We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." -- Max Planck

   

• "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us." -- R.W. Emerson

   

• "A man is what he thinks about all day long." -- R.W. Emerson

   

• "Be careful what you set your heart upon, for you will surely have it." -- R.W. Emerson

   

• "What we are looking for is what is looking." -- St. Francis of Assisi

   

• "See God in every person, place and thing, and all will be well in your world." -- Louise Hay