08-05-2013, 11:05 AM
Okay, this is how it works at my house.
I'm currently trying to find a spine for the short film I'm cutting about the Shaolin Monks. I shot it back in May and only now getting back to it after working on other jobs. (I'm looking at you Tigerclaw). I was trying to tie my footage into something simple about the relationship between the Martial Arts and Buddhism. I was trying to get the monks to say something pithy during the interviews about the subject but I didn't get anything.
Anyway, I'm looking for a book on the subject. I check on line but I'm not using the proper keywords or something because I'm not getting any good responses. I figure that somewhere in the house is my copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Repair which I bought eons ago in an attempt to be cultured. That book might come in handy to give me a little bit of perspective on Buddhism. Where the book is I have no idea. And my organizational skills amount to moving this pile over so I can shove this book in there.
So I'm digging through all the bookshelves looking for the purple paperback, because that's the one thing I remember about the book. It's purple. I can't find it. But what I do find in my quest to find a book about Buddhism and the martial arts is the book 'Zen in the Martial Arts', a book I didn't even remembered I owned. I think I bought it during the fencing years because the lessons in the book are applicable to all sports not just the martial ones. Hmm fencing is a martial art . . . .
I must have had this book for a long time, too because it was published in 1979. It was pretty good with lots of stories about Bruce Lee who was Hyams teacher before he went off to be a big time film star in Hong Kong. The lessons are pretty good, a lot about being in the moment. At the time the words for Qi and Dan Tien were being spelled Ki and Tan Ten so that was fun.
I didn't learn a lot of useful information but it did give me a little more information than I had. A quick read and Bruce Lee is in it.
I'm currently trying to find a spine for the short film I'm cutting about the Shaolin Monks. I shot it back in May and only now getting back to it after working on other jobs. (I'm looking at you Tigerclaw). I was trying to tie my footage into something simple about the relationship between the Martial Arts and Buddhism. I was trying to get the monks to say something pithy during the interviews about the subject but I didn't get anything.
Anyway, I'm looking for a book on the subject. I check on line but I'm not using the proper keywords or something because I'm not getting any good responses. I figure that somewhere in the house is my copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Repair which I bought eons ago in an attempt to be cultured. That book might come in handy to give me a little bit of perspective on Buddhism. Where the book is I have no idea. And my organizational skills amount to moving this pile over so I can shove this book in there.
So I'm digging through all the bookshelves looking for the purple paperback, because that's the one thing I remember about the book. It's purple. I can't find it. But what I do find in my quest to find a book about Buddhism and the martial arts is the book 'Zen in the Martial Arts', a book I didn't even remembered I owned. I think I bought it during the fencing years because the lessons in the book are applicable to all sports not just the martial ones. Hmm fencing is a martial art . . . .
I must have had this book for a long time, too because it was published in 1979. It was pretty good with lots of stories about Bruce Lee who was Hyams teacher before he went off to be a big time film star in Hong Kong. The lessons are pretty good, a lot about being in the moment. At the time the words for Qi and Dan Tien were being spelled Ki and Tan Ten so that was fun.
I didn't learn a lot of useful information but it did give me a little more information than I had. A quick read and Bruce Lee is in it.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit
