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7. Pulling Sprouts from the FieldHistory/BackgroundOnce upon a time there was a young farmer. He wasvery lazy and did not like to work too hard in the fields. However,he liked having a good harvest. One day when he was in thefield working, he looked at the neighbour’s field and saw allthe spouts growing very tall. His own sprouts, though, werestill very small and short. He was not very happy about that.One evening he suddenly had a thought and he thenwent out to his own field. He began to tug up on all the smallspouts he had, wanting to make them taller than hisneighbour’s sprouts. He was so happy when he was done andwent back to his home singing. His sprouts were taller than hisneighbour’s now and that meant he did not have to work sohard and his harvest would be better than his neighbour’sharvest. The next morning he woke up feeling very satisfiedand so smiling we went along to his field. When he arrived atthe field, he was shocked! All his sprouts were died!This is a story we learned in primary school. Today Ilook back and see that it was a good lesson and clever way toeducate the children like that. Today our education fails toeducate children in how to behave and about cause and effect.Instead, we educate children in how to be rich and famous astheir goal. But if someone is so rich, then this means a lot ofother people will be poor. If someone is famous, then manyothers will have no name.For myself and also many other societies, a governmentthat teaches its children the importance of being kind andcaring for others instead of teaching them to go only for theirown benefit, will have more good fortune in the future. Asociety in which people help each other offers more than asociety in which everyone has advanced degrees but onlyconsiders their own welfare and not others. This story tells usthat in order to get good results, there is no shortcut withouthard work. Today, so many people expect something withoutworking for it. This story reminds us that to have good results,we should work for things step by step, not just try to get ashortcut.to be continued....By Michael <strong>Tse</strong>Fig 7Fig 8YongquanPointFig 9Fig 9bQi Magazine Jan/Feb 2003 page 39
KnowYourWorthCulture Shock Part IIIPeople all over the worldhave different ways of doingthings. Often we go to differentcountries and expect things to bethe same as at home, but this isnever the case. You have to adaptto the way things are done by thelocals, as the saying goes “Whenin Rome do as the Romans do”.When you go into a shop and see goods with pricelabels, as someone from England you would tendto assume that the figure displayed would havesome relation to the price – wrong. If it sayscotton on the label then one may be temptedto think that the item in question is made out of cotton – notnecessarily so. The fact is that few prices are fixed, and thingsare not always what they claim to be on the label; if you wantcotton you have to know what cotton is. Even though I amnow fully aware of the going price of, say, a bottle of coke, Istill occasionally find myself having to argue the toss.Since we are living on a Chinese wage these exhaustingexchanges have had to become a part of daily life. If you looklike you’ve got the time and energy to argue you’ll probablyget what you want for the right price, if you look desperate inany way, forget it. The interesting thing that comes out of it isthat I find myself relying on all sorts of senses that did not playsuch a crucial role in life in England; for example when I startdiscussing prices with traders I now read their facial featuresand body language very closely. If I don’t know the going price,I rely on observation and instinct much more to decide if I’mbeing ripped off. It doesn’t always work but, as well as beingsomething that applies equally to martial arts, I’m aware thatthis is an important day-to-day survival skill here. On thesurface everything seems to be fluid, but underneath you needto be sure of yourself and rely on your own feelings, or you’llbe taken to the cleaners. I think the consensus here is that I’vescrubbed up rather nicely.I have met a lot of martial arts teachers, many of whomhave unquestionable ability; one guy demonstrated his Qi bymaking his wrist expand as I tried, in vain, to stop it. Anotherseemed to know so many forms it made my head hurt. In theend choosing someone to train with seemed more a questionof personality than knowledge. The obvious questions are: dothey and their students look healthy, what are their studentspage 40 Qi Magazine Jan/Feb 2003
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