Originally posted by anerlich
I personally reject the notion of any moral, metaphysical, or spiritual dimension to Wing Chun.
Oh bless you for stating this. Dressing up our fighting art in irrelevancies does nothing for our understanding of Wing Chun Kuen.
Wing Chun is a set of tools for fighting. They can be used for good or ill. It's not a religion, system of physical culture or social program. It is has roots in Chinese culture and religion but is not bound or beholden to them.
Exactly. Wing Chun is just a tool.
To assign a moral or similar dimension to Wing Chun is IMO to abrogate or at least mitigate your personal responsibility for such.
Another zinger. But, it is a way to control one's students, allowing empty teachers to pretend another expertise beyond the martial.
IMO both holy man and psychopath (Q - can the two classes intersect?) both have the capacity to become excellent WC practitioners.
IMO WC is defined by the forms (including dummy and weapons) and the kuen kuit.
Right on. IMHO, you cut to the core issue.
Regards,
John Weiland
"Et si fellitur de genu pugnat"
(And if he falls, he fights on his knees)
---Motto of the Roman Legionary
"Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth
and you will get neither." --C. S. Lewis