I'm Dr. Yang Jun-min from Taiwan.
When I was 14, at that time we already know,
everyone when they turn to 16,
they have the possibility to be drafted to the war.
So that's one of the reasons I get into martial arts
so I can train myself, get ready if anything happens.
My master, my white-coat master,
he spent 23 years with his master.
I spent 13 years with him.
I didn't even learn half of what he knew.
In 1976 he passed away.
He took half the knowledge to the tombs, to graveyard.
Of course there are many ways to learn the meaning of life
by self-conquering.
You can play piano, play violin,
you can do a lot of things.
That's why it's called kung fu.
Chinese means kung fu,
this means through self-conquering,
spend time and energy,
that's why it's called kung fu.
Everything is created from the life-and-death situation in the past.
When you are in the life-and-death situation,
you have to really comprehend.
For example, I have an uncle.
He was drafted to join the Second World War in Japanese time.
When he came back,
he hugged his mom's leg,
crying, crying, crying.
Then people asked him what's going on.
He said, you wouldn't believe what the war was like.
One day their whole group had been chased by Chinese army,
and they were so tired,
they ran for two days without food, without water.
If you have this kind of life-and-death experience
in that kind of situation,
you grow up.
And this art has been created by human experience,
from the human struggling against each other.
And this is a culture we have to appreciate.
From learning it, they can appreciate what is life,
and what is peace.
Because again, the martial art is created in that.
So in order for you to protect yourself,
in order for you to protect the whole society,
you have to have the spirit,
you have to have the courage.
Because remember, human culture,
for fighting, struggling against each other,
that is part of human culture,
from the beginning of human history.
And that creation is that feeling we have learned from this feeling.
We learned how to love each other,
how to treat each other,
correct it today.
But now we are dumping it.
Once we dump it, again, we never appreciate it again.
So it's very important to me.
Today's spiritual cultivation,
cultivation is very shallow in this society.
You think people today, they have everything they have.
Are they happy?
They are not happy.
Because they can feel their life missing something.
What's missing?
The spiritual side of cultivation, understanding.
Are you righteous?
Are you...
Can you show respect?
Are you humble?
All these things are required
to make yourself to reach high levels.
If I can conquer myself,
to do what I want to do,
I have my life.
Instead, I got no choice.
I have to do what the life wants you to do.
That's very fulfilling.
That's why I feel happy about my life.
