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During my stay in Beijing,
I asked an expert of Chinese Martial Arts, a Mexican
living in Beijing, Antonio Flores to engage for me
Martial Arts research regarding the word KUN-TAI-KO.
This word combination, after statements of my master
Norbert Punzet, and he got it from the founder of this
style Lucien Victor Ott, mean "powerful little body"!
Giving master Flores this reference, he opened himself
in order to research the deeper meaning and investigate
the origin where it comes from. Toni is a teacher at the
international school in Beijing and graduated as a
previously only foreign Wushu-teacher through the
"Chinese Physical Education University"! He read for 20
years the book of variations or like it in the original
title "Book Of Changes"!
It is worldwide known as
”I-Ging” in special bookstores an with international
Martial Arts suppliers. In order to understand this book,
one must be in the situation to be able to read and
understand the meaning of the Asian Philosophy to be
able to read between the lines.
There are only very few
persons dedicated themselves to the I-Ging, this very
difficult book.
Tony is one of them. The
book actually comes from the Zhou dynasty and describe,
being based on the flows of Yang principle to the
interaction of the Yin. Here now the decoding of the
word combination KUN-TAI-KO:
The Chinese character "KUN"
be to be equated Yin, that weakened and yield and appear
as the second Hexagram of the Yi Jing. Taiko is a
phonetic variant of a south Chinese dialect and be
written in Pinjin "DAGUO". A concept the Richard Wilhem,
used and as follows described will can to that. The word
GUO has many meaning and can be described therefore not
exactly with a western word. In above mentioned
connection it such meanings like:
more than necessary
on that gone
past exceeded or
exaggerated.
Decent of these
important meaning, it has to be diverted, that it
appears as a type of excess. At the end it has
exceed the meaning to exceed each meaning/. This
Hexagram is about condition transition moment
extraordinary or extraordinary.
(I Ching. The translation of Richard
Wilhem and Ed Arkana, England, 3rd edition, page
704)
DAGUO, the 28th Hexagram
in the Book Of Changes explains the predominating/exceeding
of somewhat larger. It states that the large importance
of a situation can be exceeded by somewhat even larger.
"The roof beam of a
house on that the total roof lies, will be
collapsing always to the point, that is weakest, for
the deceit power for the load on that laying, is
not sufficient. Therefore it is necessary to produce
a passing condition, in order to work against the
entire. That means, one must step in action and/or
act quickly and powerful".
(Op. Quotation page 111)
In this example exists the
weakness against a hopeless situation and causes a
change in which it brings the strength out of balance.
With other words, also a weak person in such a situation
is able by inserting of energy or technology to
successfully be able to master a difficult situation.
The weakness becomes strong! |
