The harder you try to escape, the greater the tension created. If you try too hard, you could break. But if you remember the lesson of the Chinese Finger Puzzle and approach the Ancient Warrior in you with this awareness, then you will be able to be free not through trying or effort, but through understanding the hold it has over you. Understanding will set you free. But you cannot condemn the Ancient Warrior.
Judgment only makes it worse.
The Master Instructor stopped talking and lined the students up for warm-ups and stretching exercises, led by an Assistant Instructor. After thirty minutes, the students were asked to sit around the outdoor fighting area, measuring fifteen feet by fifteen feet. Three Apprentice Instructors who lived at the school approached the younger students. Assistants to the Master Teachers. They lived and breathed the Martial Arts.