i would say, some people would do anything for lineage lol. Or maybe in exchange for participating on the internal self defense demo team, the sifus confers special rank or secret knowledge on them. Don’t we like to be more advanced than others?
sorry but stuff like this just feeds skepticism about the MA by outsiders.. and even some of us too.
One good thing about guys like these… they can only make your own school look more bona fide (i hope all of our schools appear a little more on the legitimate side than this)
edit ** i think that guy was on american idol this year. he jumped up on the panelists’ desk & scared the carp out of them.
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The good thing about ignorance is that one becomes totally content with oneself, thinking that “I know it all” without seeing or realising that there is a big wide world out there full of phenomenons beyond our current understanding. It’s like saying “I don’t believe in bacteria coz I’ve never seen one.”
apparently ladies and gentlemen, we now DO have to be weathermen to know when the wind is blowing.
Don’t we like to be more advanced than others?
sorry but stuff like this just feeds skepticism about the MA by outsiders.. and even some of us too.
One good thing about guys like these… they can only make your own school look more bona fide (i hope all of our schools appear a little more on the legitimate side than this)
Nothing wrong with being a skeptic, many are until they run into it. sometimes the mindset of a skeptic will not allow one to run into it no matter how hard they look.
Outsiders don’t matter, much they can not really appreciate the art in the same way as insiders do. I think the idea that it is more advanced is mistaken, it’s a different way one that many would really have to start over to start again.
Most are not willing or really able to. its a choice, always has been. ones school shoule really stand on its own not needing to be compared with others.
The thing is, I’m not telling anyone to believe that this is real, or this is fake. All I am saying is that there are things recorded in the world that need further exploration and understanding. Just dismissing something because it does not fit into out mode of thinking is just not, scientific. Being SUBJECTIVE and not OBJECTIVE is also not scientific. Discussions in a civilized mannor.
This is like patients suffering from “Demonic Possession”. We cannot ignore it purely because “We don’t believe in demons”, and just say that these patients are acting or faking it. But when we study it deeper, then we can work out and say “a-ha! he has a frontal lobe malfunction and dopamine imbalance” then we can treat it with proper drugs and therapy.
The problem with Tai Chi is that it operates with very different methodology to what we normally deal with everyday. If we look at it with “Shaolin” type of energetics, then everything just becomes very odd.
I am not saying that the demos by this Tibetan monk is not weird. But this is just one of the many weird things out there that may need some analysing. And we need to device some scientific methods to systemetically analyse such phenomenon.
Thinking of it as being cooperative helps in the initial stages. The more you think about everything being connected, the easier it will be. With empty force studies, learning hermeticism and reiki helps a lot. The yahoo group Reiki_On does attunements for levels 1 and 2 for free, but most people don’t give the master attunement for free. There’s a condensed version of Bardon’s Initiation Into Hermetics floating around, but it’s better, if you get a hardcopy. abardoncompanion.com is also a good suppliment for the book.
I’m more impressed with the actors jumping all around like that. I have a video of a masters demonstration in Fl with a bak mei master placing his students hands on him and then using “earth quake” energy to “blow” them off him. before he said go, one of the students was 3 feet away. and there was delayed reactions. to the people in the crowd, it could look impressive. on video…SCAM!!!
and well…if anyone with any reputable training was in that crowd, they would have jumped at the opportunity to have him throw them around. I know I would have volunteered. On the real end of the spectrum…I have seen people who know pressure point fighting hit people in certain points and the person throwing the technique spazzes out because they get hit at certain points on the hand or wrist and their hands feel like they are on fire. but that is a totally different thing in itself. its called slight nerve damage. haha. well, I don’t buy this guy one bit.
no true master needs their students to jump around like dancing bears to make them look good.
and thats my 2 cents.
