blindsage wrote:Both the original article writer and the review writer have commented on this thread previously.
jtan wrote:The word 'internal' was a marketing label used by some martial artists in the early 20th century to promote their teachings. At a time of widespread illiteracy - it wasn't hard to 'spin' and reconfigure the entire martial arts landscape. Sun lu Tang in particular was the darling of the academics who were trying to find china's equivalent to bushido.
jtan wrote:Doc,
Surely you don't believe the internal/external division based on qi? Shaolin has qi work as well. Or is it you believe the internal/external division based on religion? Taoist is internal and Buddhism has come from outside china?
Or perhaps you believe in the theory so current these days - as in internal as a ground path inside the body? And external as division where you get a rotation of the waist versus leg strength? Ridiculous.
That division is all nonsense. The reason no one can talk about internal or external is because there is no such thing. There are only differences in training methodologies. And spin. From one's reply can be seen the depths of one's knowledge.
Scott P. Phillips wrote:Jtan and Doc Stier, you are both right. My theory is that there were two distinct ideas about how a person could deal with possession by deities.
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