12-22-2024, 09:40 AM
That’s a constant in the wulin. Qi Jiguang started this trend of lists of techniques with his pivotal treatise and many modern masters follow suite but they don’t seem to know why. The technique list is damn annoying because they feel they’re transmitting some sacred concepts but really they’re just rattling off some list that’s been passed down that may well have lost its meaning. Couple that with the cosmological penchant for certain numbers like 5, 9, 18, 108, and we get these essentially empty lists.
The biggest question in my mind about GM Tu is how much is his original thinking and how much is from extant literature. He claims a Daoist foundation but I can’t penetrate the old texts because so little of it has been translated. Did he make it all up and just point to obscure and abstract references? It would take a massive dive to prove it either way, something for daoist scholars, but I doubt anyone would go there because of its prurient nature.
He had a young pupil at one point that was looking into it. I had a long discussion with him at a tournament years ago and remember he had a massive bruise on his hand from overdoing Tu’s mantra practice. I’ve completely lost track of him - can’t even remember his name now but I remember our conversation well. I never brought it up for your research Greg because it’s a huge rabbit hole and I don’t have the lead for it anymore.
The biggest question in my mind about GM Tu is how much is his original thinking and how much is from extant literature. He claims a Daoist foundation but I can’t penetrate the old texts because so little of it has been translated. Did he make it all up and just point to obscure and abstract references? It would take a massive dive to prove it either way, something for daoist scholars, but I doubt anyone would go there because of its prurient nature.
He had a young pupil at one point that was looking into it. I had a long discussion with him at a tournament years ago and remember he had a massive bruise on his hand from overdoing Tu’s mantra practice. I’ve completely lost track of him - can’t even remember his name now but I remember our conversation well. I never brought it up for your research Greg because it’s a huge rabbit hole and I don’t have the lead for it anymore.
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