不二法門
The one and only way
"Do you know what I shall study, I asked?
But... Yourself, who has ever studied anything else, he answered smiling?"*
Before they became obsolete, old martial arts practices were a training leading to a possible good career. Money, fame and glory always being the main motivation for most people, they were high in demand and it was quite hard to get into a school. Until relatively quite recently, people used to queue to try to get a master, coming bearing gifts with no guarantee to be admitted as a student. It was said that to become a student, you had to be gifted, diligent and liked by the master. Nowadays, of course, it's quite the opposite.