loyalty to teachers is safe fantasy roleplay but makes you feel like you accomplished something
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It's personal, we have a history.
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What's it to you?:D
LMAO
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
-Patanjali Samadhi
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."
~ Bodhi
Never miss a good chance to shut up
Last edited by Lokhopkuen; 07-31-2011 at 02:37 PM.
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
-Patanjali Samadhi
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."
~ Bodhi
Never miss a good chance to shut up
I understand what you are saying and I count myself very lucky in my experiences. Disappointment is based on expectation, all I expected was to learn martial and got so much more than I ever dreamed. I found myself disappointed many times in the course of my studies only to realize later I had been childish and selfish indulging my ego unable to see the big picture.
There were so many good answers on this thread before my post so I decided to play the devils advocate by mentioning loyalty as a factor and then master-baiter came along and whipped me into an unwitting frenzy hence my "aggression" LOL!
Last edited by Lokhopkuen; 07-31-2011 at 03:32 PM.
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
-Patanjali Samadhi
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."
~ Bodhi
Never miss a good chance to shut up
Some schools try to adopt and enforce the Confucian submission to authority, your instructor is your Master/Father tradition. They forget this is America where it is tradition to question authority and resist abuse of power!
If the instructor is just any other Western shmuck like me and tries to act like that then I won't have the time of day for him. Because then it's fake and posing. But if it's someone who really comes from and represents the Confucian culture then I think it's good to try to adjust and accomodate. For instance as a bare minimum not to question, resist, joke around during training or in front of other students. To me there are some valuable lessons to be learned from just accepting the situation and letting one's proud individualistic ego scream away inside till it shuts up for a while. (it's not like it won't come back, the tenacious bugger)
Last edited by rett; 08-01-2011 at 12:24 AM.