Today we have two short parables that contain big lessons for martial artists and we look at how this applies to determining if a martial art is useful.

Find out how a bottle gourd, a hand cream, a twisted tree and a yak relate to determining how useful a martial art is.

References:

https://ctext.org/zhuangzi/enjoyment-in-untroubled-ease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_Shi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_raccoon_dog

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