Lou, Thanks for sharing that very interesting essay! Are you still practicing Judo? If so, how old are you? I'm 48 and formerly I studied Aikido for a few...
Falls and rolls are not essential in kung fu or tai chi. You might practice chi nas what are holds where you might have to take down a person, but the forms...
May I suggest yoga and tai chi. I have taken a summer of yoga regularily. Kung fu requires practise with meng bean bags to condition parts of ones body , as...
I dont have time to read each of these emails as carefully as I would like, or to participate in the wisdom flash backs as carefully as I would like. watched...
I presently study modified tai kickboxing, and tai chi. They are about as different as martial arts get ( I imagine) . I have been exposed to hung gar kung fu,...
In a message dated 12/1/2004 3:23:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, roncriss@... writes: Lou, Thanks for sharing that very interesting essay! Are you still...
In a message dated 12/1/2004 8:52:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, marktrumble2003@... writes: started digging through disorganized library ( just moved) to...
by translated source documents I mean nothing more than lets say an english version of the tao te ching ( Penguin, DC LAu). Not a commentary on the tao te...
by the way Lou, be "antagonistic"....question me so that I may learn. as a lawyer, you are used to being the "satan" ( adversary) my adversaries have taught me...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691019649/qid=1101913821/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-7534861-7005412?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 this is an...
If you mean Herbie J Pilato's "Kung Fu Book of Wisdom" I have that. It's a great little book. I also have his book "Kung Fu Book of Caine," which is all about...
In a message dated 12/1/2004 11:19:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, gjoaquin@... writes: If you mean Herbie J Pilato's "Kung Fu Book of Wisdom" That sounds...
The Tao Teh Ching (spelled variously) is THE Taoist (pronounced "Dowist", from Tao, same as Japanese "Do" as in Judo, meaning "way" or "path") source book....
Have any of you seen the David Carradine DVDs on Tai Chi and Qi Gong? If so which would you recommend first as the best introduction? I think I'll give them a...
Both would provide benefits. The Qi Gung video ofters exercises that focus on specific internal organs, such as lungs, heart, liver, etc. Tai Chi gives you...
Alisa, Thanks for the info. I just ordered the Tai Chi for Beginners and the AM and PM (both in one) DVDs. I also ordered a used copy of the Tai Chi book....
I think David's instructional videos rank among the best things he's done - they are put together so well and are actually aesthetically pleasing to watch. The...
Thanks for the recommendation Ron. I'll try and check it out. I know in Alisa's reports of the second Omega seminar David talks about how he feels there's a...
I must confess that Gurdjieff (Ouspenky's teacher) comes off weak to me. All that stuff about spirits of the planets and such. The Essene Gospel is essentially...
Thanks for that. Guedjieff is a little weird, though I enjoy the mind-stretch anyway. One of the things that distinguishes kung fu philosophy is that it is...
Ashok, I think we moderns tend to separate mind and body and disassociate from our bodies to some extent. What I refer to as dualism. The martial arts are in a...
whole heartedly agree. As early as grade 10 Descartes was a philosopher who had convinced me that radical doubt, and consequentally, the subject/object and...
Let's not forget the spirit! One purpose of "meditation" practices is to still the discursive mind. To this end the mind is occupied by repeated phrases or...
Spirit is the habit of the body? What is spirit? is it like mettle ( a spirited horse?) is it ones breath wind ( the greek word pneuma, hebrew word ruah) why...
"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus...
Thank you for the time and care that you respond with. I feel like I myself am not adequately substantiating my claims or views. I will over the Christmas...
... theology of the middle ages called intellectecus(sp?), which ultimately meant a kind of unmediated insight. ( sources would be St. thomas aquinas, maybe...
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