Originally Posted by
Yum Cha
I think the underlying thinking is, and please correct me if I'm wrong,
Forms don't teach fighting, fighting teaches fighting? So, if you want to learn how to fight, fight. Fair enough.
PARABLE TIME!!
A Samuri comes to a village and everybody bows, but the oil merchant pouring oil into small containers.
The Samuri is offended and threatens to behead the man if he doesn't bow, and the man says, "I don't need to bow to you and your skill, I can pour oil through the hole in this coin, into my bottle, and not spill a drop." The Samuri watched as he did so, over and over again.
The Samuri then left.
7 years later the Samuri returned, and bowed to the Oil Merchant in recognition of his skill which the Samuri could not reproduce, and was enlightened.
To some, kung fu is about fighting. To others it is about physical skills and the pursuit of perfection in movement and timing. The goal is the pursuit, not the realisation.
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There are two kinds of mountaineers you'll meet. When your sitting on the top and another climber scuttles up and you ask them, 'So, why'd you climb it?' Most offer the cliche "Because its here", or "I had to add it to my conquests" or the like. Few people answer the obvious, 'for the view.'
I guess you can just say that not everybody has the same motivations.
If your own motivations gain force by the denial of alternatives or by measure against foreign standards, you have no validity other than what you take from others.
Well said Jubei !
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !