Maddie

So I guess the answer to my question is predominantly no this has not happened to most people who have responded so far.

So here's my question about these mystical teachers that are hidden from society, much like Santa Claus and God if no one's ever seen them how do we know they exist?

That's a bit convenient don't you think?

Well there's certainly a lot of people who make that claim but every time they fight a real fighter they get their ass beat.

Anyway since everyone keeps wanting to bring it back to MMA versus traditional martial arts I'll move along with an example of my own lol. Since there's video after video of a Tai chi Master being beat up by an MMA fighter I began to look at other examples where the claims didn't meet reality. As a Buddhist I began to question why even though Buddhism claims to teach the path to enlightenment you never see anybody that's actually enlightened and the sutra say it's supposed to bring benefit here and now. Just as one example. Dear I mention the lack of any actual immortals in Taoism?

Again I want to reiterate that the point of this post wasn't to start another MMA versus traditional martial arts debate but to ask those who have become disillusioned with fake traditional martial arts because of the MMA phenomenon if it affected other things in their life such as religion and or philosophy?

Yes I have the same question. But I think everyone's getting in the Weeds about the martial arts aspect of this and not the questioning that comes out of it.

I wasn't really talking about combat, just the issue of systems that made claims that turned out to be unfounded.

Have you never seen the early UFC's or early Gracie material in general? They basically owned every style of traditional martial arts.

I think the very fact that this topic triggers so many people absolutely supports the idea that guilt is the primary issue.

IMO the real problem isn't masturbation or Jing loss, the problem is guilt.

There is no archeological evidence that the Exodus actually ever happened, so it is important when reading these narratives to ask the question "what point were the authors trying to make". Most scholars agree that most of the Hebrew bible was written during the Babylonian exile and that much of the emphasis was writing to encourage Hebrews to not mix with the local Babylonian culture and customs. They couldn't do this directly since they were being held captive in Babylon so most likely condemning Egyptian practices was how they accomplished this, so thus the "golden calf" story.

Nice to meet you as well. Yes from a TCM point of view its considered important to preserve Jing or more specifically pre-natal Jing by building up post natal Jing and Qi,

What if there isn't a god of this world?

This is correct but the question was what vegetarian food replenishes jing.

That's interesting, but what do you base this hypothesis on?

I was using the term food loosely as in something you ingest lol. Ok fine its not a food but still accomplishes the mission lol. 🤪(there isn't much that is vegetarian and not poisonous that does the job so I had to stretch things a bit)

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first of all misogynistic much? also what if that woman is a licensed acupuncturist? what are your credentials beyond "trust me bro" ? anyways I never said that masturbation won't deplete energy. What I did say was that semen is not jing, and what actually depletes jing is desire not fluid loss. It's important to pay attention to detail before spouting off.

correct also I don't think masturbation is the problem, I think your guilt about it is.

I think it's important to realize that semen is not Jing. Jing is lost through desire not through ejaculation.

I wonder what classic Eastern thought would say about Transgenderism?