Spiritual Beliefs of Your M.A. Style

[tonydee]

Choi, Hong Hi - who was influential at the time my first school's master split from other taekwondo associations - pushed a simplistic Confucian message of loyalty and obedience to particular people/groups (parents, teachers, country), and virtues like perseverance, integrity and courage. As a Buddhist, I find the notions naive and dangerously incomplete....

Cheers,

Tony

[bushido_man96]

Choi, Hong Hi - who was influential at the time my first school's master split from other taekwondo associations - pushed a simplistic Confucian message of loyalty and obedience to particular people/groups (parents, teachers, country), and virtues like perseverance, integrity and courage. As a Buddhist, I find the notions naive and dangerously incomplete....

Cheers,

Tony

If you ever get the chance to read A Killing Art, you get to see where at times these kinds of ethics seem to be ignored by the very ones who choose to push them on others...