tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13961468.post676182691756672924..comments2024-02-14T07:29:25.919-05:00Comments on Cook Ding's Kitchen: The Tradition of Excluding Foreigners from Chinese Martial Arts TrainingRick Matzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09699550034693340637noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13961468.post-78433806049815080482014-05-08T02:18:48.916-04:002014-05-08T02:18:48.916-04:00Paul, Good point on Richard Whilhelm. ... Spoke to...Paul, Good point on Richard Whilhelm. ... Spoke to many serious Yi Jing readers, they considered Wilhelm's translation of Yi Jing (I-Ching)as one of the best. <br /><br />To seriously comprehend another subject matter from a different culture, one must connect the dots between the language, the culture and the cognition.<br /><br />Compass Architecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09981921036122725709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13961468.post-91550158675802195432014-04-26T22:07:31.239-04:002014-04-26T22:07:31.239-04:00Thanks for your insight on these matters, Paul. I ...Thanks for your insight on these matters, Paul. I always appreciate it.Rick Matzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09699550034693340637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13961468.post-11240833849923420782014-04-26T08:21:23.923-04:002014-04-26T08:21:23.923-04:00We live by myths and we die by myths. Perhaps I ca...We live by myths and we die by myths. Perhaps I can offer another myth. It is always difficult to learn something from a culture that a student thought as inferior. Many Japanese students learned from Chinese masters in the past with good results (e.g. founder of Gōjū-ryū was a star student when he learned White Crane in Fujian). As for westerners, Richard Wilhem a minister who loved Chinese culture so much that he was "proud" to have converted nobody to Christianity in China, instead he himself became a learned Taoist deep meditation master. As the myth goes, things have changed now....Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15867403006412320812noreply@blogger.com