Exploring the Spiritual Fusion of Serpent Kung Fu and Buddha Da Moor Bey

The author, Lonnie Bray EL, in Forest Hills Park by East 105th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

In Kongfu (Kung fu), I learned to think like a Tiger, ferocious, brave, territorial, go for the throat. I learned to think like a Crane, a mother-bird fighting to the death to protect her young. Likewise, I learned to think as a serpent, wise, calculating, patient, striking, or breaking in order to kill without emotion, effort, or remorse. Serpent martial arts are Earth’s oldest animal martial arts, dating to Egypt, Somooria, and America. I’m mostly Tiger Style of mind, because I like juggernauting everything in my path. I think it’s funny. However, I can’t practice that martial art with non-Brothers, because they tend not to respect my power and get hurt, or injured. Nevertheless, my Temple is The Serpent Temple, Black Serpent Temple, in fact, and it is in the mind of the serpent that one masters that Temple. A serpent is wiser than a tiger, who thinks he can just rip through everything. In fact, Tiger can’t rip through everything and Serpent Styles can prove that.

Serpent Styles include Snake Viper, Snake Constrictor, and Dragon Schools.

, Shaolin Buddhism, Chan, and Zen, the Way of the Samoorai, taught martial arts in 18 hand forms, that he called 18 Moor-Hand Kongfu and 18 Moor Tricks, using fists, palms, and fingers. Six of those hand positions are in Dragon Style, five are in Snake Style. That should tell how important serpent martial arts are to the secrets of Kongfu.

Untrained eyes don’t see me worshiping, or praying in reference to anything Holy, nor do I attend religious gatherings, ceremonies, or show respect by closing my eyes and bowing my head, because as a warrior, my eyes remain open to protect. My head doesn’t bow, because I am a Moor and Moors’ heads do not bow,  so I don’t call myself religious. Yet, maybe I am. Some religious leaders engage me intellectually until they realize with whom they’re dealing, then they divert conversations to things spiritual and holy temples. Several of them speak from fat, sick bodies, bodies in terrible shapes, because they have and continue to abuse them with such things as cigarettes, alcohol, and so-called foods. Ontheotherhand, I keep my body is clean, because my body is my Temple. I learned that in ISLAM, but practiced it much earlier in life through Shaolin Kongfu. I am a demonstration of cleanliness of body, mind, and spirit. As a life practice, spiritual, religious, physical, no practice is closer to me than Kongfu. I am Kongfu.

Ridiculous sounds the fat man talking to me about how spiritual he is. Do a pull-up, muh-fuh. One damn pull-up to show how you’ve mastered your gut first. One pull-up to prove that maybe you’re in control of your body before you tell me about how strong your spirit is. Is that just my thinking? Let me know.

So what can I do with Kongfu? Well one thing I can do with Kongfu is, or are the Tall Techniques. The Buddha Da Moor Bey was about seven feet tall and his Kongfu was designed to take advantage of height. However, most of this writing has been about the martial aspects of Kongfu, when in fact, the peaceful aspects of Kongfu, such as social interaction, diet, and cleanliness of space, please me most. Kongfu is much more than martial arts. However, only ones who master Kongfu, the martial art, may become Masters of the Temple.