(by Robert Cutrell Tae Kwon Do Times magazine January 2014
"The Warriors of old [like Chuang Tzu] many times found solace away from the perils of battle in the arts of writing, music and painting. In order to establish balance in their lives and escape the emotional challenges faced in confrontation, they sought to find, "Clarity of the Spirit" in the point of an ink quill or the stroke of a brush.
One such modern warrior is Ed Parker Jr., son of Ed Parker Sr., the Grandmaster of American Kenpo Karate. Though he could find himself tethered by the restraints of expectations of his lineage, and the experiences of his youth where he found himself surrounded by the legends of the arts on a daily basis, Ed Parker has found his Clarity of Spirit through his painting and his [non-combative self defense art], The Paxtial Arts."
