Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

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Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Aqui on Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:31 pm

Hey guys :)

I am leaning far out the window for this post and will probably get ridiculed from quite a few... but anyway here's my question:

Are there still martial art schools that have and teach a spiritual practice without having lost their martial side?

Some years ago I trained under a filipino teacher who was a proper fighter (and fought for real in his youth in SEA) yet he was a deeply spiritual man teaching and living his esoterics (oracion, anting anting, rituals,...). As many won't believe in such things (which is fine with me), but he could produce some weird stuff and would teach aspects of it.
At one point family obligations forced him to go back to the Filippines and I lost contact.

So do you guys know of such a teacher? Can be CIMA or other, the quality is important, not the label!

You can PM me if you like.

Thank you,

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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Trick on Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:40 pm

Are the Yellow Bamboo's still around?........sorry............My first Taiji teacher did just a little Filipino MA in the Philippines, the old teacher he met there focused a lot on spiritual practice, I guess it is widely practiced in the Pihlipines......Don't know if Glima wrestlers of today still writes specific "magical" runic signs on a piece of paper to be put in the shoes, must be some spiritual aspect to that.
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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Appledog on Thu Dec 07, 2017 10:00 am

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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby willie on Thu Dec 07, 2017 10:31 am

Appledog wrote: I think I have a decent grasp of what I have to do next.


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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Bao on Thu Dec 07, 2017 11:36 am

"Are there still martial art schools that have and teach a spiritual practice without having lost their martial side?"

What kind of spiritual practice do you ask for? Religious or philosophical? Or something else?
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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Aqui on Thu Dec 07, 2017 4:00 pm

Thank you very much, Appledog!
Sounds very interesting, could you tell me more about the spiritual aspects of your teachers teachings and about the effects they have? You can PM me if you don't want to discuss openly!

Thank you Bao for your post, I am looking neither for philosophical nor religious practice, neither of them produces (in my experience) real results.
As I said my philipino teacher could produce real graspable results, not just insights or realisations (though both are very important, just not what I am specifically looking for). So I am looking for methods to actually get results.
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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Bao on Thu Dec 07, 2017 4:03 pm

So I guess you mean teachers with "special" or "mystic" skills? ???
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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Aqui on Thu Dec 07, 2017 4:20 pm

Bao wrote:So I guess you mean teachers with "special" or "mystic" skills? ???


Sorry, I think the problem is that spiritual means different things for different people...
But "special" or "mystic" skill are exactly what I mean (for me they fall in the spiritual category) :)
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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Aqui on Thu Dec 07, 2017 4:21 pm

Did you ever experience a teacher with "special" / "mystic" skills, Bao?
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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Bao on Thu Dec 07, 2017 5:06 pm

Aqui wrote:Did you ever experience a teacher with "special" / "mystic" skills, Bao?


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No, not really. But I've heard some interesting stories...
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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Trick on Thu Dec 07, 2017 9:33 pm

I don't know, but I would think if ones spiritual level is high one would not feel the need of practicing pugilism. If the chosen spiritual practice is deep there would not be any thoughts at all about pugilism.....Now, put on the armor of God-https://m.wikihow.com/Put-on-the-Armor-of-God :)
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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Appledog on Thu Dec 07, 2017 9:36 pm

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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Appledog on Thu Dec 07, 2017 10:25 pm

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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby middleway on Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:41 am

Serge Augiers Da Xuan Tradition is a complete system of spiritual pracitce, lifestyle practice and martial practice. As i understand it, the students of the school focus as much on meditation and Taoist training as on the fighting arts.

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Re: Are there still schools with Spiritual Aspects

Postby Tiga Pukul on Fri Dec 08, 2017 4:06 am

There are still quite a bit of Silat schools that include Spiritual Aspects. Similar to what is practiced in the Phillipines. And yes also without loosing the martial side. I heard some crazy stories from Pencak Silat teachers returning from Indonesia to the Netherlands with plenty of knowledge in those aspects. Inducing Trance within seconds, Manipulation, Stopping people from a distance, Predicting time of illness or death, Putting people into trance and let them fight each other whilst in trance etc.etc.

An area which i prefer to steer clear from, but I know it exists and is still practiced.
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