[QUOTE=Ray Pina;1109207]Wude? Everyone is a fraud and lying to themselves and perpetuating falsehoods… either consciously or subconsciously.[/QUOTE]
pffft. speak for yourself.
You don’t know anything about anyone else.
[QUOTE=bawang;1109170]westerners like wu de as long as it is an optional suggestion, or an ambiguous guideline to improve your life as a middleclass office worker.[/QUOTE]
I’m gonna have you deported you ungrateful skunk.
im scare pls no
[QUOTE=bawang;1109225]im scare pls no[/QUOTE]
give me fajitas from taco bell and ill call off the dogs.
seriously, taco bell beats the crap out of kfc now!
i think david ross has wu de.
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1109227]give me fajitas from taco bell and ill call off the dogs.
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dont call off your dogs. i havent eaten for 2 days.
I like womins who have Bu De.
[QUOTE=bawang;1109228]i think david ross has wu de.
dont call off your dogs. i havent eaten for 2 days.[/QUOTE]
I think he has a lacuna in his brain.
You leave my dogs alone. Wait, they’re hungrier than you!
and eat something, quit dropping e and going to those crappy raves.
I will join bawang to devour your dogs. I have spicy pepper sauce ready
wu and de are actually 2 characters/words.
wu is fighting
de is character/personalities/ethics
we may practice fighting methods
we may cultivate our characters
as 2 separate things
ethics about life in general and not just about or surrounding fighting alone.
[QUOTE=SPJ;1109254]wu and de are actually 2 characters/words.
wu is fighting
de is character/personalities/ethics
we may practice fighting methods
we may cultivate our characters
as 2 separate things
ethics about life in general and not just about or surrounding fighting alone.
:)[/QUOTE]
I think it’s understood that ethics do not only apply to fighting.
I think it’s also understood that despite them being two characters, that in context they are ONE meaning when combined.
wu de
the most important ones are zhong and yi
1 zhong loyalty
- yi justice/fairness
the representative examples are yei fei and guan yun chang
guan switched loyalty from cao cao to liu bei and never went back. but he did let cao cao go as yi example.
so business people worship guan gong.
yei fei was loyal to southern song.
sheep and wolf analogy
civilians are sheep
soldiers, warlords are wolves
Read Wu De: Martial Morality ~ my latest Good News article for YMAA.com.
Thanks for sharing Gene, enjoyed reading the article.
When reading Han, Tang, and Ming treatises on the concept of Xia, it is clear that it was much less ideal and more akin to gangs or anarchism. However, the warring states story of the three heads fighting in a cauldron (san wang mu or grave of three kings) had the clear motif of helping the weak to fight bullies. The participation of Shaolin temple in Xia culture during the Qing Yongzheng exodus period added a much more precise description of the ideal kung fu man (three teach/three don’t teach. 10 precepts etc).
Since the Xia culture belongs to the extremely low level underclass, the lack of written texts may deem it to be a crude or inferior sub school of the hundred flowers. But I think the xia ideals are simple in concept, hard to do in life.
So personally I think Wu de is about: don’t hurt others, don’t bully others, and help others, while wielding the power of kung fu.