Great yin yang debate. I enjoy every minute sitting on the sidelines.
I've been in Chinese restaurants where they bring you the gongfu set.
They bring you chopsticks. Good luck Occidental. If you watch the
chop socky genre closely the Chinese defeat the Japanese because
they're more adaptive less ritualistic. The best scene in all ma
movies is a favorite of Tarantino, Street Fighter with Sonny Chiba
where you see an xray view of a karate blow driving skull and neck
between collar bone. My personal favorite the anti hero Zatoichi from
the sixties. Did anyone see the lastest version? I didn't care for
the promo with the moonlite eyes.

Jim

Michael Plant > wrote in message >...
> Alex igy.com9/9/04
>
I snip because I can
> > You can buy the tea, the wisk, all the things to make both teas they use for
> > the ceremony and drink it without ever touching the ritual side, but why
> > "muck about"? Just because you can do it without your head being chopped
> > off?
>
> Because "mucking about" is the higher form.
>
> Just my opinions, Alex. I enjoy your points, and don't really disagree with
> them at all; it's all in the way you look at it. In any event, I'm about to
> embark on a serious gungfu learning adventure. Less later.
>
> Michael