03-23-2020, 06:05 AM
(03-23-2020, 05:19 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I doubt America can do anything. Chinese see themselves as the center of the world. A Chinese Awakening already has a foundation, the revival of Chinese culture. It is rich and spiritual, and would encourage more freedom as well. China had an organic view of the world based in Buddhism and Taoism and so is inherently subject to a spiritual revival. It seems to me that karate discipline is part of this. These traditions foster a value for life that an unjust tyranny does not support.
Traditional Chinese culture was always tyrannical, and Buddhism like Taoism cannot really challenge it because they are all about passive withdrawal. Karate / kung-fu is great as a sport and means of self-defence, but the philosophy attached to it is just Chinese, one cannot learn democracy at Shaolin where the master is always right.
