Originally Posted by
bawang
kung fu culture and morality is about combining actual fighting ability with virtue. claiming to be a righteous or enlightened person is the easier part.
i actually partake in real, "primitive", "weird/creepy", "ching chong" sh1t like praying to heaven to strike down enemies, letting my ancestors ghost smell food before i eat them, chant diamond and heart sutra silently when i run or do iron palm. i do it with a straight face. i still learned bjj from friends, how does doing these things stop you from learning bjj i dont get it.
before i run with 40 pound weight vest i do light body qigong and imagine turning light as a feather, then pray to rabbit god for speed. i chant protection spell before i deadlift. i do this with a straight face. if you find this comical then you need to reevaluate your "pure esoteric holistic lifestyle" because my esoteric enlightened penus ranking is significantly higher than yours.
where the hell did u guys learn that doing weird stuff means you dont have to train realisticly anymore. how does that even work.
Ahaha, but of course. The way of Yao and Shun. The Shen can smell food, the Gui can taste baijiu poured on the earth. In every house I trained in there was a statue of JinNaLuo at the family alter, my masters would enter Shaolin just to pray to him and not to the Buddha. Jinnaluo always faces the place of training and to worship him you must simply train hard before his eyes. Everything according to the 4 seasons. None of these things are silly. Ritual binds the past to the future.
Righteousness and Benevolence intertwine like yin and yang, often it is immoral NOT to seek retribution, if you allow a murderer to go unpunished though you show mercy to the murderer you show contempt for the rest of the world you unleash him upon. Absolute pacifism is not the way. I am not judging any other arts as immoral, simply that this aspect must be acknowledged because morality is the rule by which you act in the world, how can you train action without it?
I would say the sparring and the training is the easier part. The harder part is committing to the rules of virtue in reality, most especially when you know your condition is not up to it. If someone stands up for righteousness despite their lack of ability it is to be admired far more than hard training. But why not do both? I agree that training must be realistic. I'm all for training in all ways and all aspects but being realistic is also about accepting how important a part morality and emotion plays in fighting because these things are what shape the situation that you must then act in with your kung fu.
I myself am deficient in both strength and virtue, but I wouldn't want to seek one without the other.
Last edited by RenDaHai; 12-24-2015 at 02:47 PM.
問「武」。曰:「克。」未達。曰:「勝己之私之謂克。」