This is a good topic, Peter.
What about this: The three mental factors, Present, Formless and Neutral and the Feel of Suchness are the necessary conditions for a fight. If one is in the state of the above factors, there is no place for anything else. No thoughts, no forms. A style is also a form. It is an opinion of someone on fighting. How can one manifest a style if he is supposed to be formless? He wouldn't be formless if he did. He also wouldn't be present and neutral.
Sifu often refers to a "melting pot" in course of his seminars. I understood that he means by this also a certain "de-stilization" and "de-personification" as a necessary conditions for learning.
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