{"id":7391,"date":"2010-09-22T00:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T16:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2010-09-22T00:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T16:51:52","slug":"everything-is-kungfu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/09\/everything-is-kungfu\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything is Kungfu!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I watched the 2010 version of ‘The Karate Kid’ on the plane to India. It’s better than I expected. (It’s not about Karate; but Kungfu. I guess they wanted to bank on the well-known brand.) The most powerful one-liner in the film is when Mr Han (acted by Jackie Chan) tells the titular kid that ‘Everything is kungfu’ <\/span>when he trains him to pick up and wear a jacket repeatedly, eventually integrating the otherwise mundane moves into Kungfu techniques to the kid’s surprise.<\/p>\n

The wider implications of the one-liner are many. Beyond Kungfu-fighting in terms of martial arts and pugilistic techniques, Kungfu is also about how we eat, speak, think, live… Kungfu actually means ‘skill’ in Chinese, and skill is needed in everything we do, though we do various things with varying extents of skilfulness. The depth of Dharma practice in Chinese Buddhism is also called Kungfu! <\/span>How well one can share the Dharma or help another in general on the Bodhisattva path also requires Kungfu! Yes, ‘skilful means’ or ‘upaya’ in Buddhism is essentially skilfulness – Kungfu too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched the 2010 version of ‘The Karate Kid’ on the plane to India. It’s better than I expected. (It’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[223,124],"class_list":["post-7391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-bodhisattva","tag-skilful-means","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}