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The Buddhist doctrine of no-self
According to the Buddhist doctrine, the no-self doctrine aims to free one from suffering since suffering comes from attachment to the self.
Buddhist meditations are kung fu practices to leave one's attachment behind.
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Martial arts is not just about fighting
A common misunderstanding about martial arts: Many people think martial arts is about fighting, but it is really about improving your wisdom and intelligence.
Any ability resulting from practice and improvement could embody kung fu for example. There is a kung fu of dancin...
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Chinese kung fu a form of pragmatism
Western philosophers such as Socrates, the Stoics and the Epicurians mainly were concerned with virtue to live a good life. Similarly, classic Chinese philosophy calls our attention to a dimension that transcends the obsession with searching for eternal, universal truth and practising it ...
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The performing function of language
Confucius's call for "rectification of names" - using words appropriately - is a kung fu method for securing sociopolitical order, as "names" are placeholders for expectations of how the bearer of the names should behave and be treated.
Mencius and Xunzi's views about human nature are reco...
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Aristotelian and Confucian virtue ethics
Aristotelian virtue ethics focuses on the cultivation of the agent instead of the making of rules of conduct. The kung fu approach shares this view, but the process of ethics does not rely on any metaphysics for justification.
The person who follows the Aristotelian metaphysics will put mo...
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How to live one's life
The chief orientation of traditional Chinese philosophy is about how to live one's life instead of finding out the truth about reality.
The well-known question posed by Zhuangzi in the 4th century B.C. - was he Zhuangzi who had dreamt of being...
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Mindfulness is unsuited for self-understanding
Mindfulness is grounded in the Buddhist doctrine. It is a metaphysical denial of the self - there is no soul, spirit or any ongoing individual basis for identity. There is no 'self' or 'me', and consequently, no thoughts that are 'mine'.se
Western metaphysics holds that there is some en...
The performing function of language
Confucius's call for "rectification of names" - using words appropriately - is a kung fu method for securing sociopolitical order, as "names" are placeholders for expectations of how the bearer of the names should behave and be treated.
Mencius and Xunzi's views about human nature are reco...
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