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by Bryan Hawkins, President, UKS  

The story is told of a colony of mice who made their home at the bottom of a large upright piano. To them, music was frequent, even routine. It filled all the dark spaces with lovely melodies and harmonies.

At first, the mice were impressed by the music. They drew comfort and wonder from the thought that someone made the music - though invisible to them, yet close to them. They loved to tell stories about the “great, unseen player” whom they could not see.

Then one day, an adventuresome mouse climbed up part of the way in the piano and returned with an elaborate explanation about how the music was made. Wires were the secret - tightly stretched wires of various lengths that vibrated and trembled from time to time. A second mouse venture forth and came back telling of hammers - many hammers dancing and leaping on the wires. The mice decided they must revise their opinions. The theory the developed was complicated, but complete with evidence. In the end, the mice concluded that they lived in a purely mechanical and mathematical world. The story of the “unseen player” was relegated to the mere myth.

But the “unseen player” continued to play nonetheless. In Kenpo, as in life, the metaphysical (non-physical) aspects are the key to attaining true skill and harmony.