While written for a general audience, there are still some interesting insights. Take a look.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Shaolin Kung Fu in Contemporary China
While written for a general audience, there are still some interesting insights. Take a look.
A great read on a rainy Sunday morning. Despite all the commercial hype, the "atmosphere" surrounding that Temple beckons many folks; lately, even me: I find myself practicing a Qigong that claims to have originated there. Your article makes for nice background.
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"His master had admonished him to remain humble..." and that students were taught to "eat bitterness."
Reminded me of a quote from a book by Anthony Bloom:
The word 'humility' comes from the Latin word 'humus' which means fertile ground. Humility is the situation of the earth. The earth is always there, always taken for granted, never remembered, always trodden on by everyone, somewhere we cast and pour out all the refuse, all we don't need. It's there, silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness in spite of corruption, transforming corruption itself into a power of life and new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.
Walt's blog, A Plainly Hidden View is simply beautiful. Please take a look:
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