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In 1972 the words Kung Fu did not exist in the American vocabulary. Nobody here knew what that was. Few had any clue what Zen was as well. A TV series would bring this to us and bring about a new way of thinking. When it was proposed in 1971 the only actor that had a chance at the role was Bruce Lee, but when the round eyed executives interviewed him they said, too Chinese, we can't hardly understand him. So they hired a round eye, to act, Chinese and talk and answer in 1 or 2 words who had no clue what Kung Fu was. This created an outrage with all the LA Asian actors and they went overboard to appease them. The series launched in late 72 and was in full swing in 1973.

The acting was lousy, the martial arts fights were terrible. They hired out every old hack writer in Hollywood to just write a western. They were all about the same. None of them were connected, or had any continuous story. You had to endure 50 minutes of this western bull she=yit lousy story, to get 3 minutes of the shoalin temple scenes, which was the only reason I tuned in.
Some of the concepts brought to us then were:

You must be one with the Universe. Each man must find seek his own path. He must find peace and flow naturally with nature. To obtain peace and happiness he must seek it out and capture it. It will not come to you on its own. Some men resist and try and swim upstream and life for them is a constant struggle. Others just follow the flow of things and gently float downstream. When a man, finally finds his way, then he becomes gentle and happy.

(REFERENCE: KCC will stand for Kwai Chang Caine when he was a young adult. Young KCC will stand for when the character was young)*

# KCC:Kwai Chang Caine, I do not know your bible. But our sage Lao Tzu has written: "A wise man does not contend, therefore no one can contend against him. Yield and overcome." What will happen, will happen. Whether one is afraid or not.

# KCC: A man can be broken. No matter how strong he appears to be.
Man: How?
KCC: By a strength outside, greater than himself. Or a weakness inside, which he cannot understand.
# Ho: Master I cannot win this match.
Kahn: In saying so have you not already lost?
Ho: This man seems to be driven by a force I do not know. He has a strength I have never seen.
Kahn: There is more to this combat than physical strength.
Ho: It has been said that the lance can never give way, but that a man can give way.
Kahn: How?
Ho: By a strength outside that is greater than himself. Buy a weakness inside him, which he cannot interpret.
Kahn: Do you forget that your spirit is stronger than the flesh? It can defeat the power of another, no matter how great. There is no failure, no defeat, no weakness within you. Only that which you allow to settle in your own mind. Draw upon the strength of your spirit.

# KCC: Master. I do not understand all that happened.
Kahn: No one knows all. We were challenged by a festering anger. The challenge was accepted. And in the end, the seeds of hatred destroyed themselves. As they always do. As they always will.
Poe: Battles are waged on the earth and in the heavens. Within the mind and within the soul. This battle has been won.

# KCC: Mater, do we seek victory in contention?
Kahn: Seek rather not to contend.
KCC: Then, will we not then be defeated?
Kahn: We know that where there is no contention, there is neither defeat nor victory. The supple willow does not contend against the storm, yet it survives.
# Kahn: Weakness prevails over strength. Gentleness conquers. Become the calm and restful breeze that tames the violent sea.

# KCC: Master, our bodies are pray to many needs. Hunger, trust, the need for love.
Kahn: In one lifetime a man knows may pleasures. A mothers smile in waking hours. A young woman’s searing intimate touch. And the laughter of grandchildren in the twilight years. To deny these in ourselves is to deny that which makes us one with nature.
KCC: Shall we seek to satisfy these needs?
Kahn: Only acknowledge them, and satisfaction will follow. To suppress a truth is to give it force beyond endurance.


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Rice paper walk

http://www.youtube.c...p9NTo6BWvs&NR=1

The price of gambling:

Man: All because I was a rascal and a fool. I gambled away all the months rent from my tenants. I Bought wine for everyone and paid the flower girls for their song. There was nothing left. At last they goaded me into it. I bet my finger. Mao threw the dice. And I lost!! It hurts, Master…it hurts!
Master Won-Que: And what would you have won if the dice had been otherwise?
Man: Four pieces of silver. As many as I have fingers left.
Master Won-Que: And with the four pieces of silver, you would have bought more wine and the flower girls, would you not?
Man: (Nods acknowledgment).
Master Won-Que: Then perhaps with the finger, you have bought wisdom. And that would be well worth the price.

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Modern Shaolin temple

Nothing like it was when I was there in 1982, 28 years later, it has became a Circus side show, just a tourist trap money grab. It sold its soul, for money and greed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLpiZJj6_Q...mp;feature=fvwp

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Main Kung Fu intro to TV show

http://www.youtube.c...iaamkUEF_A&NR=1

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FASTLARRY, on Sep 9 2009, 07:06 PM, said:

Modern Shaolin temple

Nothing like it was when I was there in 1982, 28 years later, it has became a Circus side show, just a tourist trap money grab. It sold its soul, for money and greed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLpiZJj6_Q...mp;feature=fvwp

# Kahn: When you leave these walls, you will come upon the many pillars of violence.
KCC: May not a man, one with nature, seeing such pillars - avoid them?
Kahn: Other men stumble in the way. They go in idle-less search for peace.
KCC: Must I then tumble down these pillars?
Kahn: Seek always peace. Wear no paths for the footsteps of others, unless the soul is endangered. We are all linked by our souls. To endanger one, endangers all.
KCC: And if thus endangered?
Kahn: In such times, the soul must be the warrior.–KF*


# Kahn: What the eye sees disappears with a blink, or a wandering puff of breath. Where there was light, the eye denied sees nothing (he blows out a candle).
KCC: My eye is denied (Kahn leads KCC to another room with a candle in it).
Kahn: That is what the eye sees. What the souls sees cannot be denied.
KCC: Will not the soul, too, be denied when death blinks its eye?
Kahn: No. The soul sees always.
KCC: Yet the body dies.
Kahn: Does the sun die?
KCC: It does not shine at night.
Kahn: It shines, somewhere, you do not see it

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# Poe: Discipline your body, that your mind may find a greater power.
KCC: What greater power is there, Master Poe?
Poe: Those who surrender themselves, find inner strength.
KCC: Will this protect more that could my arms and legs?
Poe: When the heart knows no danger, no danger exists. When the soul becomes the warrior, all fear melts, as the snowflake that falls upon your hand.–KF*

# Poe: GRASSHOPPER, BE YOUR SELF. AND NEVER FEAR THUS TO BE NAKED TO THE EYES OF OTHERS. YET, KNOW THAT MAN SO OFTEN MASKS HIMSELF. THAT WHAT IS SIMPLE IS RARELY UNDERSTOOD. THE DUST OF TRUTH SWIRLS, AND SEEKS ITS OWN CRACKS OF ENTRY. AND A TREE FALLING IN THE FOREST, WITHOUT EARS TO HEAR, MAKES NO SOUND. YET IT FALLS.–KF*
# KCC: When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.–KF*

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# KCC: When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.–KF*
# KCC: I do not get lonesome, I belong to myself.–KF*

# Kahn: Strike each flame, within the width of a hand from the wick [candle]. In this way the flame is snuffed out, yet the candle is not touched.
KCC: What is the purpose of so difficult a blow?
Kahn: Discipline. That you may strike with such strength, yet in one place, and no more.

KCC: Master, I am troubled. We learn to make powerful the force of out bodies. Yet we are taught to reverence all against whom we may use such force.
Kahn: When your life is threatened, or the innocent life of another, you will be prepared to defend them.
KCC: Being thus prepared better than others, should I not always stand and fight?
Kahn: Ignore the insulting tongue, duck the provoking blow, run from the assault of the strong.
KCC: Are these not the actions of a coward?
Kahn: The wild boar runs from the tiger. Knowing that each being well armed by nature with deadly strength, may kill the other. Running, he saves his own life, and that of the tiger. This is not cowardice. It is the love of life.–KF*

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# Young KCC: Master, are you lonely?
Kahn: Do you feel loneliness?
Young KCC: No. But I do not understand, why denied the experience of so many things that other men desire, I do not?
Kahn: Do you remember the day that you first came here? You stood in the rain, you did not play games with the others.
Young KCC: My parents were dead. I was alone.
Kahn: Is that why you waited so long? So patiently to join us?
Young KCC: Yes, it was.
Kahn: We to, were alone.
Young KCC: But you lived here together.
Kahn: Man, like the animals, is meant to live together, with others like himself. But the meaning of belonging to such a group is found in the comfort of silence, and the companionship of solitude.
Young KCC: Is that why you let me enter, and taught me?
Kahn: We taught you young man, because you already knew.–KF*
# Kahn: Man against man. It is a contest that may have an end. He who is most skilled will prevail. You are both enjoined by your vows to do your utmost. Disciple Caine, you will attack. Disciple Han, you will defend (they spar/fight). Disciple Han you have done well [lost]. He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.
KCC: We swore an oath of friendship, master.
Kahn: You are speaking of disciple Han?
KCC: Yes, master.
Kahn: And he no longer feels bound by this oath?
KCC: Because of the contest yesterday, between us, in which he was defeated.
Kahn: And you feel as though you have lost something?
KCC: I do.
Kahn: What will you do now with your oath?
KCC: Is not an oath eternal?
Kahn: But how can you control such a thing as a friendship? Which requires the assent of two persons. It is well to consider deeply, before binding yourself to an ideal, cause, or a man. But what is an oath worth that binds a man to an unachievable task?
KCC: He is still angry, it troubles me. I do not know how to answer to his hatred.
Kahn: How else, but with love. One cannot always keep a friend. When that friend believes that one has wronged him.
KCC: But, I have not wronged him. He is mistaken.
Kahn: Each man has the right to choose his enemies and his friends. He may choose unwisely, but the decision is his alone, to make. Then he must live with the consequences. And so must his enemies, and his friends.–KF*

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# KCC: Well master?
Poe: Tell me.
KCC: The body and mind are one, working in unison.
Poe: They are one.
KCC: It is as though the unity made by itself, are necessary.
Poe: And all those years of rigor and discipline?
KCC: What else could a man seek, but this unity.
Poe: As the wise farmer puts back, into the land, at least as much as he has taken out of it. So soon you must give back to others what you have taken for yourself.–KF*

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# KCC: Master, of mans roots, which is the stronger?
Kahn: It is a Shaolin belief that the paternal line controls.
KCC: What is a man without roots?
Kahn: What is a tree without roots? The deeper into the earth the roots reach, the stronger the tree.
KCC: A name. A face in my mind. A place. It is all I know of my father. One half of myself, an emptiness, a mystery.
Kahn: Seek to discover it then. For it is this thread which holds you to the past and binds you to the future. To fix your place for all time and eternity.–KF*

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# Poe: What? Sad Grasshopper?
KCC: My sadness is for you.
Poe: Is it?
KCC: Never to see the clouds, never to see the sun on the water, or the plumage of a bird.
Poe: Yet it is sometimes eyes that blind a man.
KCC: How can this be?
Poe: Because he can see, he does not look. Is the bird only the color of his plumage?
KCC: None should think so.
Poe: To be at one with the universe, is to know bird, sun, cloud. How much shall a man lose if he then loses his eyes?–KF*
# Kahn: The rabbit feels rage. The tiger, pity. The dragon, pain. All creatures, the low and the high, are one with nature. No life is insignificant. If we have the wisdom to learn, all may teach us their virtues. This is Shun, master of the White Crane system. From the crane we learn grace and self control. The snake teaches us suppleness and rhythmic endurance. The praying mantis teaches us speed and patience. And from the tiger we learn tenacity and power. And from the dragon we learn to ride the wind. Life sustains life, and all living creatures need nourishment. Yet with wisdom, the body learns to sustain in ways that all may live.–KF*
# KCC: Mater, do we seek victory in contention?
Kahn: Seek rather not to contend.
KCC: Then, will we not then be defeated?
Kahn: We know that where there is no contention, there is neither defeat nor victory. The supple willow does not contend against the storm, yet it survives.–KF*
# Kahn: Weakness prevails over strength. Gentleness conquers. Become the calm and restful breeze that tames the violent sea.–KF*

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# KCC: Master, our bodies are pray to many needs. Hunger, trust, the need for love.
Kahn: In one lifetime a man knows may pleasures. A mothers smile in waking hours. A young woman’s searing intimate touch. And the laughter of grandchildren in the twilight years. To deny these in ourselves is to deny that which makes us one with nature.
KCC: Shall we seek to satisfy these needs?
Kahn: Only acknowledge them, and satisfaction will follow. To suppress a truth is to give it force beyond endurance.–KF*
# Poe: You sit by yourself, Grasshopper. What do you think of?
Young KCC: My mother, my father, both gone. I am alone.
Poe: Do you hear the flock of birds overhead? Do you hear the fish? The beetle? In this crowded place you feel alone. Which of us is the most blind?–KF*
# KCC: To know nature is to put oneself in perfect harmony with the universe. Heaven and earth are one. So must we seek a discipline of mind and body within ourselves.–KF*