The Fading Flesh

Training for any other reason than to understand martial arts as a whole, giving respect to each style of art, is bound to come to an end. Training to understand martial arts as a whole, including as many art forms as possible, as a method to strengthen the "whole self" will endure until death. Study the arts as a means to study yourself. Increased mastery of the arts ought to lead to increased mastery of the "whole self". Without All Mighty God, this is impossible because He is the Master of all things, but with Him at the center and at the start and finish of the journey, and if He grants with His infinite wisdom, the arts are able to give strength to the "whole self" in ways that other means are incapable of in this world. The spirit lasts forever, but the flesh is fading away. Strengthen the soul through the arts, or your

art will fade away as your flesh fades away.