Kung fu monks

[BookofJames]

Sorry I didn’t know where else to put this.

Bear with me here for a moment.

Can anyone think of a good reason as to why the Church hasn’t set up a monastary like the Bhuddist Shaolin monks?

Wouldn’t it be so cool???

Imagine having Catholic monks that had a devotion to some sweet martial art (Self defense only of course!!!)

They would be up in some mystic mountian complex and would put people who were willing through rigerous mental, spiritual, and physical hardships. (I’m thinking of “Kill Bill”, “Batman Begins”, you get my drift.)

Catholic spirituality mixed with martial arts. Whaddoyathink??? Cool to think about.

I know… I’m a dreamer

 

[TheWarriorMonk]

The only thing that separates me from that dream is a few years before I reach the level demanded of our traditional system to teach on my own, and a winning lottery ticket…lol. I even have a place picked out, which is a Catholic retreat, complete with a church on a hill, whose was abandoned a few years back, and is currently for sale.

Yeah, I am dreamer too.

Bodhidharma got the monks started on the path of exercising, simply because the meditated so much that they became very out of shape, to the point where they would fall asleep while meditating. It evolved to the point where movement became meditation. Also, between the diet and the exercise, it actually becomes easier to suppress one’s urges.

I’d love to see and participate in it, but being married, I would have to do so from the outside.

 

[Kamaduck]

Sorry I didn’t know where else to put this.

Bear with me here for a moment.

Can anyone think of a good reason as to why the Church hasn’t set up a monastary like the Bhuddist Shaolin monks?

Wouldn’t it be so cool???

Imagine having Catholic monks that had a devotion to some sweet martial art (Self defense only of course!!!)

They would be up in some mystic mountian complex and would put people who were willing through rigerous mental, spiritual, and physical hardships. (I’m thinking of “Kill Bill”, “Batman Begins”, you get my drift.)

Catholic spirituality mixed with martial arts. Whaddoyathink??? Cool to think about.

I know… I’m a dreamer

You get an award for having the Most Awesome Idea Kamaduck has Heard Today. :clapping:

Seriously- now that it has been suggested, this has to become a thing. It would be awesome!

 

[TheWarriorMonk]

Shaolin monks have been doing this around the world. Shi Yang Ming bought 80 acres or so in upstate NY. I also remember something similar in another country (South Africa???) where the have taken in abandoned children.