To stop disempowering ourselves

I was looking at some sculptures recently. When asked how they came up with the design, I understand that some artists say that they don't decide what the sculpture should look like, but rather they could see the inner nature of that piece of marble or block of wood, and then they just uncovered it.

Hapkido-ists of the past didn’t create techniques, rather they discovered that human anatomy generates more power one way than it does another, that it bends certain ways, breaks other ways.

Your true power of Hapkido already exists in you. It’s there now. Waiting. Dormant.

So another way of looking at things is to say that Hapkido is not about accumulating practices that empower us, but rather ceasing all practices that disempower us!

In other words becoming who we are, or, in Master Chang’s words, “uncovering your true potential”.

It takes a long time, but we must keep chipping away at the marble.