就像春蚕食叶，沙沙有声。
    麦腾龙在宣纸上运笔自如，须臾间一幅充满禅意的书法作品就浮出纸面。
    记者注意到那是一个“佛”字。

麦腾龙与少林寺住持释永信

                                       Translated by Cao Hong

Heroes never be asked the source

To enter the inner world of Michael Tenglong is not easy, because he is a stable, low-key person. From the day when he began his Wushu career, he has been experienced in many times of competitions, just like tranquil water and deep flow, his Wushu skill and virtues are both successful.  Recently, our journalist and Michael Tenglong made an appointment in Foshan and had a long communication. Michael Tenglong said:” Chinese Wushu is profound, I got chance to be attached to Wushu, it is really a good fortune. In my view, although Chinese Wushu has several factions, in fact, there is no hierarchical difference, if there is a difference; it is the heart of people is so strange. As a real Wushu master, he focuses on the realm of Wushu, and relays on individual practice, and reborn as a master.  The journalist asked Michael Tenglong: ‘people who are interested in Wushu and willing to practice it with their own true nature heart, how to understand the spirit of Chinese Wushu and its real meaning?  Michael Tenglong said that the Chinese Wushu is an ancient quintessence, if you want to understand the best level and meaning of Wushu, you really need to have deep perceptibility. Chinese Wushu is not exactly the same as in our day-to-day experience and understanding, even they have relevance. Those who can well understand the meaning of Wushu, and also practice it with good method are real masters; those who are proficient in all of the methods and combine them with Wushu practicing are good masters. Michael Tenglong said: concerning Wushu, if you do not practice it, you will not understand the inside truth. But I think that it is not only the first-class root people who can learn Wushu which should be an equal law and server for the society at any time, Wushu looks like the nature of human beings, and various factions of Wushu don’t have hierarchical difference. People who are interested in Wushu could pass through their own fate and find their own appropriate Wushu method and faction.  Journalist asked:” People who would like to learn real Kung fu should find a superior master to teach and guide us, as a consummate master has predestined relationship with Chinese Wushu and they have already well understood the true meaning of it, do you agree with that?   Michael Tenglong’s answer is full of wisdom: He told the reporter that “The time when we are confused, the teacher saves us; the time when we are clear in mind, ourselves will save us."   Michael Tenglong is explained as follows: people cannot regard as that they must rely on the wise guidance of the master to achieve success; neither to deny the role of master and to be trained by himself likes a blind people. Chinese Wushu is very profound, in order to suddenly understand the enlightenment and achieve the profound mystery of the realm, they must find their own teachers, study it modestly, this is the only way to be successful. Michael Tenglong thinks that in the path of Wushu, heroes are never be asked the source. Each of them looks like a lamp which can make millions of lights bright, and among the lamps, bright can be Tran missed without ending. 

Emphasis on mental self-cultivation is more important than Wushu practice

Looks like spring silkworm that eats leaves and makes soft sound. Michael Tenglong is proficient in handwriting, within a moment when talking with the journalist , he finished one wonderful Zen calligraphy work on paper.  The journalist noted that it was the Chinese character of "Buddha" .  Michael Tenglong said: people who practice Wushu skill must pay more attention to self-cultivation efforts. Zengzi once said: "Stability will be able to make people quiet down, when people become quiet down, he can be steady, then he can think over the issue profoundly, later he can achieve it. This is done from deep cultivation, but also a necessary process that has been passed so far for Chinese Wushu practicing people without enduring. It can be said that the level of Wushu realm of people depends on self-cultivation, which can make him into stability, and then his Wushu skill can be naturally improved and entered into the paradise.   Journalist asked:”‘What is Transformation?”   Michael Tenglong said that Chinese Wushu is extensive and profound with a long history, master should know: "Studying will make progress, to be a road, they will be suffered, as the road is often damaged, there would be no road, then it will become an illusion realm. The journalist heard it and was touched a lot. What's great interest is this: after taking off the Wushu clothing, Michael Tenglong, from concept to act with a distinct ethos: exhilarating, go beyond social convention. The journalist noted one detail: in the eye-catching position of the International Dragon Wushu Center, hanging a lot of creative calligraphy works by Michael Tenglong. Among them, a "Heart Sutra" is the most outstanding works, as between the lines of calligraphy works, revealed an emptiness.   The journalist felt strange, and asked Mr. Michael Tenglong: Why "Heart Sutra" this calligraphy works will be communicated to the reader a feel of void nature?   Michael Tenglong explained to the reporter that “there is one saying in<Heart Sutra>“No understanding and no attaining." The meaning of this sentence is: people really have merit, in fact, only a void nature space.  When i created this piece of calligraphic works, suddenly, i had a grasp of the concept of emptiness, as to me it seems like the sound of drum, without going and coming, which stayed not on the drums, neither on the hands. I like to write "Heart Sutra" because I think , the mystery of < Heart Sutra > is not the text, nor the realm, but the nature of the anti-sniff.  Frankly speaking, it is the first time for the journalist to meet one master who is not only proficient in Wushu skill, calligraphy but also in Buddhism.  In Michael Tenglong’s office, the reporter noted that his office is not only a library, but also a Buddhist sanctuary.  There is a Buddhist sanctuary in the master’s office, and stored a large number of Buddhist scriptures in his Wushu training room, which made the journalist confused about: Does the realm of Wushu no far more than the religious harmony of the realm? Is it the splendid fame less than the insipid self-cultivation? Michael Tenglong’s fabulosity is really a hard puzzle to guess. When Michael Tenglong saw the journalist is full of confusion, he explained: When he was young, he had also impulse, but after long years of baptizing, he gradually learned that: the highest level for a master must be living on self-cultivation ,when self-cultivation reaches the top level , he will realize the highest level of Wushu, and a trace of empty realm in which there is no real me, no reversed ,it is a kind of great realm without dependency, beyond comparison. The journalist asked Michael Tenglong:”Is that because when you are in the process of self-cultivation, you feel the life is short then you are converted to Buddhism, this unusual choice?”  Michael Tenglong said: “he was right. Life looks like illusion. Those who know how to listen to their inner voice of their hearts, and those who would like to choose a normal life from gorgeous life, are wise men. I am not wise, but I am willing to become the kind of person.”

Brave people can face to the world without enemy

Michael Tenglong said ,before he had also a lot of mundane affairs which made him feel tired, fortunately, he got a good opportunity to reach into the world of Buddhism, then he learned how to "be able to pick up ,be able to put down" . Michael Tenglong said that the real brave man is the person who is able to "see through and put down" .From learning to see through and to put aside, I have got a new experience: people can simply alive, things can be simply achieved, learn how to make one thing turned into another thing. In fact, people who get praise to be successes are often those extreme humble people. So we can see that only learn to "see through and put aside," can we find the free happiness during the short life.  The journalist asked Michael Tenglong: “Do you mean to say “to get and to lose depends on fate, there will be no increase or reduce in heart.” right?  Michael Tenglong answered:” I have been to many places, I will be happy in a quiet place, I will vexed in a noisy place. Why do I have different feeling when facing different situation?” I try to figure out this problem for a long time. Later, I came upon a book to find the answer, “people who live depends on fate, there is no difference between living creatures and himself, as predestined relationship changes, we feel both the pain and the happiness, all the feelings come from the cause. If you get a good return and honor of the thing, because you had made a good cause before, when cause will be done, there will be no happiness. So when we got happy things, we stay unmoved but to be concentrated to Buddhism, this is the life living on fate. Mr. Michael Tenglong said, “Remembered when I understood the meaning of this phrase, my heart was filled with unspeakable joy.  The journalist asked him why? Michael Tenglong told the reporter: “There is desire, there is suffering, and without desire, it is a real happiness.” Life is a real Zen master. In life, Wushu masters must have awareness of their hearts, because only the heart of him becomes conscious, will he have the courage to overcome all difficulties and determination.  Michael Tenglong’s speaking made the journalist thought of another master who had also one incisive point of view, He said, "There are two types of Wushu. One is trail, which entertains people’s eyes; the other road, it is stunning shock."  The path which Michael Tenglong passed is such a stunning shock, the achievements he made in Wushu is the evidence of this statement "Everything is possible".  "With actual eyes, goes into the high level of Zen."  Michael Tenglong is making efforts to bring himself to an unprecedented own realm.