Re: Good on you blooming lotus
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Originally posted by Brooklyn Monk
Blooming Lotus,
Tell a little about your experience. I didn’t realize you were over there. Last time we emailed you said something about Australia. How long have you been there? How long are you planning to stay? I heard that Wu Shu Guan is heated. Is that true? In that case you could stay through the winter.
where are you getting internet acess? do you have to go into deng feng? there used to be a secret, illegal internet next to ushu guan but it was leveled.
By the way, I respect what you are doing very much.
Gene, I agree fighting is bad for your body. I mentioned that in some articles. You could do regular kungfu for a lfe time, which is a huge advantage.
B:
Cheers babe.. someone's gotta tell it!
and then after you , I'm giving my own version! ;) :P
to be honest, I am having a sincere B*TCH of a time at the moment !!!!!!! I am in Guangzhou now, and was only out at shaolin/ dengfeng/ zhengzhou for 4 mths max. I was teaching esl, ( on a second trip / shaolin ma / ch''an seeking venture ) and my school ( the one I was teaching english at ) dodged me out of neary everything they promised including food and wage. Sick as a mofo , so split! Total time in china to date about 1 long , sorry yr!!!!
I did get a chance to study alot of shaolin kf, taiji, bagua, and various snake/crane. iron/ blah blah while there though, so not all bad. picked up some awesome stuff!!! One colleague was an ex- native sanda/ wushu champ ( now about 38 yrs) so that was extremly cool!
THe wank sh*ts at my old school refused to admit they breached their contract, but because I'm concurrently doing a phd ( observation paper ) in ch'an buddhism, thought I'd hustle a lil down the line , and see what else I could turn up. Rocked up at Guanzhou, picked up some awesome aerial tips and southern shaolin gf, then ( shoppaholic and mommy with bub and neices / nephews and fams at home) needed more cash to get home , so went up to Liaoning to teach uni english..... Didn't find the manchu ( which was what I was hope for nor tam tui min), but met babe Russian shotokan ex - nat - competitor - multi - regional champ and muay thai student colleague , traded notes for a bit and was sweet.
Also been to Anhui teaching ( huge on taiji there - particularly chen/ yang ) then a lil time in shanghai and beijing for some bagua .
Schools post Zhengzhou did dirty on the visa extension, and trapped as a mofo! Been strandeed for 4 weeks here paying travel bills, hotel , food and bought 3 air tickets home I couldn't use nor refund!!
Kinda not sure If I'll even live through this BS to be frank , but have offers from Teipei to brazil , though wanna head home.
gongfu is something I do as part of my day, and shaolin as a belief system, is just something I study and the way I acknowledge the world. Kinda sappy, but there it is........
Look fwd to getting home if I can, ( and if I do i'll definately hook up for school refs via mails), but at this point, hating every moment of it and crossing fingers / meditating profusely!
I just want to study and train!! You feeling that????
BL
on the wangbas..........
there are 2 in dengfeng I think and never really had drama there...I think the problem is really getting network availabilty......... a " wo yao chu wang ba-" 'll usually get me there, but getting connected is a whole new saga !!!
Cheers Bm
Ps : where 're you at ???? If I make it home, or even outta here I'll be in touch!!
Re: I lost the magic of kung fu
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Originally posted by Brooklyn Monk
I think I lost something along the way
when i was elevn or twelve years old, i believed in the magic of kung fu.
Cain to his master: Old man, how is it that you can hear so much?
Master: Young student, how is it that you cannot?
re-reading all of those great philosophical quotes, i remembered why i began studying kung fu in the first place.
..... It reminded me why I used to believe that every day of training brought me closer to enlightenment, and why I couldn't sleep at night, dreaming of my next training session, and of some day going to the shaolin temple, for real.
But why have I never found that in asia, not even for a second? was it because I was too proud? was I punching when I should have been listening?
But if it is me, why do I not know a single foreigner who ever found that wonder and magic in China and Taiwan?
I found the Thais and Cambodians refreshing, because at least they didn't pretend to have magic.
i'm not sure what that is worth. but i wanted to share. and if anyone has a constructive comment or even an insult, I'd be glad to listen.
did anyone else watch that show religiously as a kid? and, if so, did you experience disalusionment when you found that real Kung fu did not match Quai Chang Cains experience?
It is true Zen and martial art is non dual. IT is also true training in Kung fu can get closer to Enlightenment.
But, who really believe that?
Who has the practice to attain the Silence Watcher which always watching the thinker as Totlle who is the author of the Power of Now refer to? Who really know the non dual and integration Ken Wilber wrote about.
Yes, there are patriachs of Zen and Buddhist cultivator who knows what it is. and has method to get there.
enlightenment is suddent not gradual or getting closer and closer.
You are looking for to Know the silence watcher, the ever present knower, the non dual, or the original face, the immoveable heart, the unflatterred mind ...and then going into integration to transcent to transform your life, your art, your environment, your family, your competitors... core with the non dual and show them there is an alternative to grow to be better to be at peace to be at harmony.
In this path, first you have to find a lineage of Zen who can indeed train you to see the Non-Dual the original face. Then, the rest is you have to walk your journey to integrate. That is the Boddhisatva path. Read about Ken Wilber. he has good sense of what is going on.
As why you dont find the "magic" (which is not magic at all ) in China or Taiwan. just check it out, how many of them really belive in Karma and really want to search for the Non-Dual instead of falling into the trap of money, power, fame, ego as we all are in this world of only strong and weak matter but not truth and virture? Sensation indulging vesus peace and stillness? win verus to do it right?
Quai Chang Cains is just a TV show character and you are real and better. who says the journey is easy and simple? who says it is not about being defeat and lost and desprate and frustration and at the end only then one "knows" what happen.
best luck
and you shall find your path if you look for it.
There is no magic under prajna paramita. only wisdom. and first one has to learn to not take the thinker as oneself.. and learn not to pretend but honest.. there is no secret but everything is ordinary.. it is a lonely journey, some will call that a journey for the fool.
Re: Re: I lost the magic of kung fu
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Originally posted by yellowpikachu
It is true Zen and martial art is non dual.
correct my friend. zen is about mind or lack of it subjective to encompassing passion, and martial art is for most a physical relief.
IT is also true training in Kung fu can get closer to Enlightenment.
] enlightenment has many aspects, and becomming familair with your body is one. If you see your ma as expression of your spirit, or as mk put it a time back, moving meditation, it certainly can!
enlightenment is suddent not gradual or getting closer and closer.
bu xing !! not true! enlightment is something that evolves gradually throughout a persons entire life!!
In this path, first you have to find a lineage of Zen who can indeed train you to see the Non-Dual the original face
humanity itself are the zen masters and the original face and non duality comes from the detatchment we all at some stage cultivate
best luck
and you shall find your path if you look for it.
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on BM, the guy is fighter and went to shaolin for ma not chan! He claims no budhhism. Guess that's the difference in the magic! ;)
Re: Re: Re: I lost the magic of kung fu
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Originally posted by Ego_Extrodinaire
on BM, the guy is fighter and went to shaolin for ma not chan! He claims no budhhism. Guess that's the difference in the magic! ;)
The guy is not a fighter but a warrior. he went to shaolin for advance warrior alchemist training. But no one seems to show him the core of alchemist training is Chan training.
bu xing !! not true! enlightment is something that evolves gradually throughout a persons entire life!! -----
after the first glims of Non-dual one can grow one's living experience, expand one's view..... etc etc.
but that first glims of Non-dual doesnt come gradual,
and There is nothing to grow for the thus as it is Non-Dual.