Excerpts from                    DRAGON'S BREATH

Ching Yi Kung Fu Association Newsletter

March 1981

  by Michael Alan Brown            President -  CYKFA

Edited by W Kraig Stephens CYKFA Black Belt #68

PUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION OF THE CHING YI KUNG FU ASSOCIATION

Training -- Subject: Marijuana -- In 1978 I was considering halting my career as a Gongfu teacher due to the fact that no matter how much I taught or how much they practiced, my students got weaker and/or made unreasonably slow progress.  I took it to mean I had lost my ability to teach well since my students in Oklahoma had done so much better.  But at the right moment, the great psychic and Gongfu man, Clifford Lee, came into the school and spotted the problem at a glance.  The majority of the students smoked marijuana.  He and I talked with them about it and most stopped using it.  I saw people gain more power in one month than they had in the previous two years!  The difference was incredible.  I had no way of knowing about this since I had never used marijuana or any other drugs.  I now know this to be a major reason why I often made great strides in Gongfu power when others receiving the same training fell by the way.

Marijuana is probably the most singularly destructive substance to the body's Qi that one could find.  I have heard it estimated that the Qi power developed by 5 to 10 good training sessions could be wiped out with a single joint (and that is not counting the incredibly potent varieties grown here in Hawaii)..  So this month's training advice is this:  If you use marijuana or other drugs, even casually, stop!  Don't look for example of people who are still "okay" and use it.  Don't make excuses about the "relaxation" it gives or about peer pressure.  It's much easier to live life in weakness than to become strong.  Choose the road to power and put dope down and leave it down.