Pandit Tree

<<< But as always with these self-proclaimed Taiji "experts" I say, "Come push hands with me. Don't give me that theoretical superiority stuff, let's push and if you can whoop my ass then I will humbly submit to your tuition." >>> THE BUZZARD OF OZ does "WHITE CRANK SPREADS HE'S WIMP"! What a two-faced purveyor of bovine manure you are! Are you speaking in pidgin Chinese or with forked-tongue? I am the person who took the decisive action to try to quietly impress upon you the kind of embarrassment you were causing the rest of us foreigners in China. That was not just about your "Taiji".You thanked me for that but now you feel your fragile ego cannot even take a few harmless words! "Mr Talk Tough!" Where is your command of Taiji or street-level Daoism, I ask! Don't make us laugh about your "gateway" - are you trying to revive a dead computer brand, owat? I was led to this site both by friends from in and outside China. There were more than just myself who were not impressed by the likes of you, son, so don't try console yourself - you yourself were aware of that! I take no side, I am a foreigner to the Chinese and a foreigner to the foreigners, though unlike some of them I do take seriously cultural sensitivity. I also feel I have a right not to be offended by any two-bit plonkhead who goes out to perform stupidity on tbe behalf of anyone else just because the time said he ought to go on a streak of juvenile exhibitionism. You were a blot on the landscape to one and all and when you grow up do have another look at your video of how bloody awful your "Taiji" was, hopefully, by then you would have done enough (real and hard) work to rectify your primitive level of "Taiji", Daoism and Chinese culture. Your "Taiji", like your person is utterly tensed, paranoid and ignorant. I do not know know which influence which but being from "Grandmaster" Chu's line, his descendent stable has produced the expected donkey! I hear your kind of brag from time to time. It is a cover for insecurity and inadequacy designed to hype yourself into thinking you are getting somewhere when you know full well you are not. I have pushed hands with your "Grandmaster" and found him to be lacking in basic understanding of Taiji. He is ok with me, I have nothing against ex-kitchen hand turn "Taiji" expert for a Western audience, but intellectually he is not there. Master Yang Shouzhong thought same, he was only a minor student thought the hype had us all thought different! I have a dim view of the kind of nonsense he does to show his "command" of his "Taiji" - holding back a line of people, jacking someone up giving the impression it is due to "Taiji" and "qi". The antics he does can easily be duplicated within minutes by anybody without any knowledge of Taiji or qi. Every now and then I am sent an URL or two which show the very latest of his "skill". The clips should be everywhere else on the Net, study them carefully and intelligently and if you fail to see that they have nothing to do with Taiji or qi, your understanding is sadly very lacking. No master of any martial arts should resort to the kind of shabby hoodwinking he does to prove lacking in real skill in a martial art and to attempt to fool the public. If you do not understand what I mean, I mean there is no integrity or character behind that kind of stunts designed to impress the mentally stunted. Your boast about your "Taiji" should have been done on the spot when you were in China - the buses were laden with many people from the martial arts who saw your appalling "Taiji" and saw you talking to me. If you remember, a tour-guide came by and wanted to say something but left. The next day she told me what you were doing was rubbish and embarrassing, the lady had training in martial arts in her childhood and could see through your wasting everybody else's time and space. It was a chilly afternoon that was, most chose to stay in their buses after running away from your ego trip near those giant Buddhist statues (what on earth did you smoke?). If I had heard your boast about your "pushing hand" prowess I would have woken up those bored Chinese in the buses, some of them were from the Yiquan fraternity who would have eaten you for dimsum though you were more dim sum that breakfast! A few were from the Zhaobao Taiji fraternity. I would have loved collecting bets and made a packet but I chose to let you humour me and the Chinese to stay bored of your type. You should think hard (may be painful) why over the years all have left Chu either openly or for those with fragile egos, sneakily. Chu himself left for France for fresh pasture of those wide between the eyes but the same phenomenon is taking place - mass desertion. It is because there are those honest to themselves who want to learn real Taiji who find that covering gaping holes in either knowledge or skill is not done by lifting up the skirt to hide the face! Or by shallow boasting - if your skill is there it will show in your person but it was simply not there - your "form" was clumsy, rigid and oaffish! A bloody pain in the eyes, sorry! Good pushing hands skill is totally dependent on the form and you don't have that and neither Chu who could not afford more lessons from Master Yang to even have the form, you are talking like a twack who thinks hanging out with other Chu losers and doing "pushing hands" is the answer to staying ignorantly bliss! Chu's herd always talk the same way as you (cheap arrogance, inadequate) - but most end up training with my students! Do try to grow up and give all that addiction to ego-tripping a good rest. Your childish showing off in China and now here is not helping your quest to a few minutes of fame. You bored the Chinese and others to sleep. Your intellectual performance is sorely non-existent as your appalling display of "Rigid Michael Jackson on cheap Taiwanese batteries" a familiar description for your the "Taiji" of your "Grandmaster". Worse of all for someone from a country where you could have learn much from Aboriginal culture you stood up like a sore pussy with your inability to cross a simple culture "divide" in China. Your "gift" of your own "work" to Prof Hu was much joked about and so was your "speech" at which the Chinese laughed off that you should learn Chinese rather than expect them to provide you with anything on Daoism presumably in English! All the while you showed a very tensed and nervous defensiveness which lasts all the way here where you display your ignorance of basic k Daoism: "Sticks n stones..." they say, but you find a few words about your crap "Taiji" is enough for you to disintegrate into shallow ego bolstering! Are you unleashing some kind of WMD on us not unlike your "Grandmaster" making us watch your kind of "Taiji" and killing us all off as we die laughing?!!! I do agree with quite a lot of what the Chinese said about "the foreigners" though I must say I met a handful who were more effectual. I do not agree with some of the things said all over the Chinese internet and elsewhere but I feel they have a right to their opinions no matter how hurting they may be to others, I did come across a good bit of rather hurting stuff about the Chinese too - straight out of the whores' mouths!. It was all a bit sick especially when there were no effort to rectify the situation. The Chinese have no problem with Asians at all I think it was due to their ability to be more culturally sensitive and to adapt to a different environment. The Southeast Asian got on very well with all, some of the Koreans were a bit wild but were well=liked by the Chinese. I had a nice time, I met a lot of old friends and made a lot of new ones. I was given a lot of material and promised research work for the near future. I have already been invited to other conferences etc and an opening of a new temple next year - all paid for by the Chinese side. The Chinese looked after me very well always making sure I had a room to myself, meet others, they always insisted on carrying my luggage, provided me with food in the buses otherwise with free-flowing booze in the hotels, and catering for my idiosyncracies in very tolerant manner. Back in Beijing some Daoists took to paying for the remain of my stay in China and introduced me to more contacts. All I did fo the trip was to stay in the background and be last in everything, though I did make effort to cross the "divide" and not to hang around some moaning minnies and bizarre turd-rate Kung Fu movie wannabes! I humoured the Chinese by winding up those terribly easy to wind up and why not, we all thought we were dealing with matured grown-ups. Yes, I did have a good laugh too and I am glad many Chinese too! I would ask you to relax and those others who caught your disease to do same. You all did well in China, you provided us with laughs so do now sit back and let your hair hang loose. Remove that Ned Kelly helmet, let air circulate and allow things to get into your skull, sunshine! Keep off your Castlemaine XXXX and remember vote Barry Humphries your ambassador of culture!