I guess speed is just something the majority aspires to attain. Kind of reminds me of the movie 'Hero', featuring Jet Li.
Hell, it's probably irrelevant, but here goes,
According to the movie, the mastery of the blade consists of three levels.
First level:
Ren Jian Wei Yi
The cohesion between the blade and the wielder.
Second level:
Xin You Jian, Shou Wu Jian
The blade exist solely in your heart, enabling you to kill the enemy from a hundred paces away, without actually touching him.
Blade Nirvana:
Xin Wu Jian, Shou Wu Jian
The absence of the blade in both your heart and your hand. Meaning that when one reaches the zenith of blade-mastery, he is no longer interested in killing. But instead advocates more worthy causes, such as the preservation and valuing of the human life.
It does relates to playing the guitar, with killing being shredding. While the blade-enthusiast works hard at being more lethal, the guitarist works hard at getting faster.
And the attainment of nirvana being when you come to realise that shredding is actually not everything, and that there is infinitely more to music.
