I admit that that I was surprised when I saw this video of a group of Americans finding enlightenment in China.
The popular stereotype about someone searching for change and enlightenment fits the plot we find in Eat, Pray, Love, a best seller that was made into a movie with Julia Roberts, where Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir takes her to Italy for pleasure, India for enlightenment and Indonesia where she discovers love again – not China.
In this video, we see a group of Kung Fu and Tai Chi students from the U.S. in search of Kung Fu wisdom in China.
While in China, they visit Chinese families, schools, temples and universities. They travel through both ancient and modern China visiting Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai.
They also climbed two of the five major mountains of China, Songshan and Yellow Mountain.
After surviving personal conflicts and emotional struggles, the group returns to America as Elizabeth Gilbert did in her journey—to be compassionate and harmonious with others and the environment.
In three weeks, this group went places few foreigners have seen.
Of course, after breaking bones twice during martial arts training earlier in life, I’ve stayed away from that form of discovery.
I still climb mountains but not as often as I once did.
See China’s REAL Karate Kids, Inside the Kung Fu Schools of Shaolin
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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