練武不練功，到老一場空 / Little Basic Training, Much Old-Age Regretting

練武不練功，到老一場空 xxx	Little Basic Training, Much Old-Age Regretting xxx
站樁是所有習武之人入門的基本功，站樁不僅是練你腳下的功夫，更重要的是磨練你的心志。	Of the basic training for all martial-arts beginners, standing meditation (or post-standing) is the number-one must. That exercise not only trains your legs; more importantly, it cultivates your mind and will.
習武的精髓是習心，習心就是要讓你自己的心志得到磨練。習武之人最重要的是要做到身心要平靜如水，心靜思遠能達千里。	The essence of practising martial arts is mental exercise, namely subjecting your mind and will to tough workouts. For a martial arts practitioner, it is crucial to try and keep his body and mind as tranquil as still water. Then his mind and thought, being calm and deep, can go as far as thousands of miles.
站樁的時候，你就是一棵樹，你要把自己想像成參天大樹。樹高萬丈在於根，你整個身心，要在你腳下的土地生根，根扎得越深，你的功夫就越深。	When you practise standing meditation, you ARE a tree – just imagine yourself turned into a giant tree reaching into the skies. Yet, though the tree can be thousands of feet tall, it has to rest on its roots down below. Likewise, the whole of your body and mind must be deeply rooted in the earth under your feet – the deeper they are rooted, the more advanced you’ll be as a martial artist.
習武要內外兼修，最終要與天地萬物融為一體，如果到達了這個層次，到了那個時刻，你的整個身心就會變成水了。	In practising martial arts, one must aim at self-cultivation both physically and spiritually, seeking union with all Creation in the end. If and when that aim is attained, you’ll feel the whole of your body and mind turning into water, as it were.
從一棵大樹，變成能滲透萬物之中的水，到那時那就是習武的更高境界了。這個境界就是要融化自己，化成水，只有你自覺不自覺地把自己融成一汪水了，你才能夠將你的身心融入你腳下的土地，到那個時候你才算是真正入了武道。	From a giant tree, to water that’s found in all living things, you will have done the journey for a martial-arts practitioner to arrive at a higher stage, where you’ll feel yourself melt into water, consciously or unconsciously. Only then can the whole of your own body and mind merge with the earth under your feet. Only then can you count yourself as a member of the martial artists’ community.
[引自電視劇《李小龍傳奇》，詠春拳師傅葉問大師指點李小龍的一段話。]	[Advice given by Master Ip Man (Ye Wen), in TV series Bruce Lee, the Legend ]
	(Translated by Allen Zhuang)