Posted: 3/23/2004 1:15:34 AM EDT
 Former Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson, D-Culver City, kicks Zhang Xiao Ju betweent the legs during a demonstration performed by Buddhist monks at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 22, 2004. In their first visit to the United States, a group of Shaolin martial artists from SongShan, China demonstrated acrobatic flips and shows of strength among other things. With the monks urging him on, Wesson made several kicks to the monk who showed no emotion. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)  Former Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson, D-Culver City, walks away in amazement after kicking Zhang Xiao Ju, right, between the legs during a demonstration performed by Buddhist monks at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 22, 2004. |
| Supposedly, some martial arts have a technique where they somehow retract their testicles up into their groin so they are protected from kicks/punches. That is the only way I can see that monk taking one to the nads and showing no emotion. Mind over matter is one thing... but the body reacts to stuff like that whether you like it or not. |
| You Guys astound me with you lack of understanding of Buddhism. To them all form is emptyness. All Things of the body are an illusion. In other words all us westerners are addicted to this life it's pleasures and it's pains. Through severe training and meditation and occasional enlightenment the Monks transend all pain and pleasure on their way to a state of no-exsistance, no-form, no-mind. This is known as Nirvana. buddhism rulez baby! let's see a Christian or Muslim take one in the nads like that! |
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Quoted: You Guys astound me with you lack of understanding of Buddhism. To them all form is emptyness. All Things of the body are an illusion. In other words all us westerners are addicted to this life it's pleasures and it's pains. Through severe training and meditation and occasional enlightenment the Monks transend all pain and pleasure on their way to a state of no-exsistance, no-form, no-mind. This is known as Nirvana. buddhism rulez baby! let's see a Christian or Muslim take one in the nads like that! Bullshit! Put Adam Vinatari in front of that monk, he'll flinch![shock] |
| Reminds me of the joke where 2 guys have an arguement over who this chicken belongs to, first guy says well let me kick you in the nuts and then you kick me in the nuts and whoever gives up first loses the chicken. The other guy agrees and goes first,wham kicks dude right in the nuts, he falls over crying in pain. Then he gets up and says ok asshole my turn, other guy is like naw fuck it you can have it! |