Originally posted by master-lu
Ok, So you hear (keyword here) Shi De Yang and Shi Di Jian are considered buddhist because they "develop chan, traditional medicine and kung fu"? Wow Shi Xing Hao, Shi Yan Ming and most of the monks here in the states trained with those guys when they lived at shaolin. They are all kung fu brothers did the same training and lived the same way! Because De Yand and Di Jian still live at shaolin makes them a real monk from what you "hear"? What if De yang one day left shaolin and opened his own school say in the USA? This would mean earning income to make a living. Would he be considered anymore real to you because he is no longer living the life as a monk in poverty? You want to strip the monks of what they learned and experienced most of thier lives because they live not according to your expectations? Sorry but what you stated is not factual its hearsay.
Since we are now on 18 pages on this topic. I think Arhat and I tried to answer the questions that arise but obviously you don't accpet what we say so what's the use? The monks are secular martial monks not religious ordained monks. Don't know how to drive that point to you and I can't put it any other way. There were people who thought like you did years ago when I started training in shaolin and there are people who think like you now. Ironically all of you say the same thing and use the same arguments and jump to the same pre mature conclusions. For some of you thats where shaolin ends.
Originally posted by master-lu
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