There is no correct way to spell in roman letters, Chinese kanji, because the Chinese has about 2 or more dialects, including Mandarin and Cantonese, which means the sounds change. Since Chinese Kanji are universal, but the sounds are not, the roman letters are sound based and people optionally use one over the other.

The Japanese solved that with katakana and hiragana, both set in stone phonetic alphabets, but the English spelling is still different.

http://japanese.about.com/library/blqow33.htm

It’s why Japanese spelling of Engilsh often turns out weird or Engrish, because they are used to spelling the words in their own native alphabet that uses different letters for different sounds. But it’s easy to transliterate between two phonetic set in stone alphabets. The Chinese Kanji can be read differently using different words and sounds, and they have two dialects, so they’re much more volatile.

Taiji Chuan can be seen as Tai Chi. Chi gong as Qi Gong. Or Chi Kung using the sharp high toned Mandarin version. Kung fu is the Mandarin pronunciation and gong fu is the Cantonese or Southern pronunciation. There are some common words in both dialects that are easy to discern, so people sometimes use it interchangeably.

If it makes people feel better, Chairman Mao went out of his way to destroy and exile martial arts families and burn martial books, because they were too ancient and not Western enough. Mao was “Westernizing” China. Hong Kong and Taiwan became a popular destination for Taiji Chuan and Southern Fujian martial art clans.

Communism is a Dark Enlightenment or Anti-Enlightenment philosophy produced by European intellectuals and exported to various countries. It was not produced by the East, originally.

To confuse 4000 years of Chinese traditional history with the few decades of Western Communism imported from Russia, is ignoring certain realities. Realities that the enemies of Mao Ze Dong, the Great Father as the brainwashed Chinese nationalists consider him, know far better than you, DC.

People outside the US often times tell me that Republicans and Democrats are so and so, because of what they learned on tv. They often confuse the actions of Leftist backed CIA operations or Leftist caused disasters like the Bay of Pigs or the Assassination of Diem, as being the fault of Republicans or US nationalists. To the rest of the world, everything that is Chinese looks monolithic, cut from the same cloth.

But that’s the same thing as believing Hussein and everyone here is of one mind, one soul, One Monolith on using American power to dominate the world. Every American is the same as every other American, and every American tradition is attached to the same US government power and nationalism.

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/06/92-year-old-veteran-defies-ban-for.html

For instance, Bagwhann Shree or whatever his name was. We hated him in Oregon. All that Beetle’s crap come home to roost. What a farce.

But then, there’s something about Eastern martial arts, which is individual and resists the collective. It’s a good balancing act, which is a very Eastern thing. Not too much Western. We love the Ultimate. Why the East, then, accepted the totalitarian model, and the West resisted, I don’t know.

Maybe it’s Judaism that has protected us.

So, I don’t know. Eastern into Western (Schopenhauer) doesn’t translate exactly well and sometimes monumentally not well. I tend to think that one should be conservative and accept change with perception rather than hope and with proof rather than audacity.

Why would anyone ignorant of physics think that there’s no answers to their question? Is that because they don’t have the right question or is that because they don’t understand the answers.

Here’s an answer Westerners might understand. Why does birth classes and sniper classes both teaching breathing techniques and patterns?

Oh wait, that’s a question, not an answer, but it performs the same function.

You’re going to have to spit in the eye of a US Marine sniper before you can talk about placebos, DC. You’re getting up to that level.

Humans are the most energy efficient hunters on the planet. This also goes far to explain why T Rex was bipedal.

Foot soldiers were always known to out march cavalry troops. You can’t convince a horse to keep on with a pep talk.

Even the term pep talk is a dead give-away to our ancient primal hunting techniques.

Having said all that, ancient man had a hard life and certainly bitched plenty — when he caught his breath.

For once our brains overwhelmed all — we promptly learned to sit down.

We invented instant caves (tents & blankets) and quasi-hibernated every night.

What we’re learning is that our metabolism can take large doses of carbohydrates — but that they are harsh on our pancreas. (diabetes)

The key in all of this is balance. The human body loves to be mildly stressed. This induces growth and re-growth. But, as Shakespeare could tell you, anything taken too far becomes a fault, and can overwhelm all positive attributes.

Moderation is usually best.

This poem?