Do you see it?

[taezee]

On 2002-01-27 05:54, YODA wrote:

 

Hi all - a passage for you to ponder

 

"When the spiritual teacher and his disciples began their evening meditation, the cat who lived in the monastery made such noise that it distracted them. So the teacher ordered that the cat be tied up during the evening practice. Years later, when the teacher died, the cat continued to be tied up during the meditation session. And when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the monastery and tied up. Centuries later, learned descendants of the spiritual teacher wrote scholarly treatises about the religious significance of tying up a cat for meditation practice."

 

--- can you see the significance here to the martial artist?

 

UUUUHHHHHH no....i dont..poor cats

 

[TKD_McGee]

I think someone should call PETA... hehe

 

 

[AnonymousOne]

A woman once was about to put some meat in the oven (roaster) and proceeded to cut the leg off. Her husband asked why. She replied "Oh our family has always done that". Again he asked why? She couldnt answer. So he decided to call her mother to get to the bottom of this family tradition.

 

When he called the mother of his wife and asked she said ""Oh our family has always done that". He asked why? She couldnt answer. So he decided to call his wifes Grand mother to get to the bottom of this family tradition.

 

When he called the Grand mother of his wife and asked she said ""Oh our family has always done that". He asked why? She couldnt answer. So he decided to call his wifes Great Grand mother to get to the bottom of this family tradition.

 

When he called and asked the great grand mother she said "Oh back in the days when I cooked for the family they only had small ovens then and I had to cut it to fit it in.

 

Traditions still abound, even when reasons for it are not known

 

 

 

 

[Shaolin]

On 2002-01-29 10:24, YODA wrote:

 

Let's look at the other side of the coin now. Have some gone too far in the other direction?

 

Today most of us have. The watered down classical mess has caused such a huge misunderstanding in 'modern' martial arts that most of us today have completely discounted the value of classical styles. This is clearly due to the fact that much of what is passed off as a classical style is just a name with a bunch of forms that have no meaning to even the ‘masters’ of the system. The vast majority of whatever information may have existed in these ‘systems’ is gone or at least missing. The people teaching this 'mess' are calling themselves masters of an art that they themselves have no real understanding of. These schools are often the ones with very foreign sounding names but doing poor western boxing with odd stances and very limited success. These people say that they are teaching an 'authentic' system but are in fact reinventing the wheel - a long and painful process for the master as well as the students I can assure you.

 

Classical styles are a compilation of combat theory and principles, developed and engineered over many thousands of lifetimes, used as a survival tool in real life and represents the best and most relevant technology man has yet conceived for use in combat. To ignore or minimize the tremendous value of this information is to condemn all of us to starting over from the very beginning of combat understanding and knowledge, essentially throwing us into a new dark age of primitive combat theory as it was 6000 or so years ago.

 

_________________

 

 

Moy Yat Ving Tsun

 

Rest in peace dear teacher, dear friend, dear brother, and dear father: Moy Yat Sifu

 

[ This Message was edited by: Shaolin on 2002-03-05 00:45 ]

[ZR440]

PETA- People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

 

No cats though.

[Deathcometh]

Ya nice way of putting it.

[dtstiachi]

Nice Post Yoda,

May the force be with you