From what I know about karma, I thought it was the actions you do in your life follow you later on in life or in your next life (when your soul is reincarnated). I have been reading a little bit about taoism and that is my most basic description of karma. But has anybody heard of their being bad karma in a group, or in a certain style?

I was discussing eastern philosophy with my chemistry teacher, and I told him how I just realized the difference between qi gong and Tai chi (one creates, one spreads+culvtivates) and he was speaking about differant types of exercisies and qi gong through different styles...

he named a few styles (choy li fut, pak mei, wing chun)

I figured I would tell him I studied wing chun, and I could tell he wasn't pleased. I guessed it was because of a local instructor (thugish guy) and I was right. I told him I study with a different instructor with a different view on wing chun.

It is almost like 2 completely different styles, and I am learning it now the way moy yat learned it from Yip Man.

My chemistry teacher insisted that wing chun had "bad karma" in it. He said "all" wing chun, not just lineages. He reccomended taking another style. Since I study MMA he said I should stick with one style and get good at it (which I think is a good way of doing things). He did say that was just his opinion though.

I was thinking if this was possible, it would be because maybe wing chun lacks the ecercises needed to spread the qi throughout your entire body. I doubt it though...

I asked him why he thought there was bad karma in Wing Chun, and he just said it's because of how a lot of wing chun practitioners he knows or heard of have had strange deaths.

Very interesting philosophy on wing chun. I am not quitting, but it is always refreshing to hear a different point of view.

I was wondering if any of you have ever heard of bad karma for an entire group or style. I always thought that it depended on the individual, but maybe there is something more to it that I can't comprehend.

He seemed secretive about his knowledge as many traditional chinese practitioners are. Leading me to believe he may study some long fist style, because long fist people and wing chun people supposedly were enemies or something (old politics that I am not concerned about)

The point of this entire post though, was does anybody believe in group karma, or karma within a style?

EDIT: Fixed spelling

You mean Karma?

If what you say is true, then all those who play or listen to music composed by Beethoven will eventually go deaf.

I advise that, if you can, change your chemistry teacher; he has more bad karma than Wing Chun.

Crap. BS. Superstition.

Sounds like someone trying to 'rationalize', is some weird way, his personal bias.

Does a mountain have karma? Does my car have karma?

If one 'believes' in karma, then anything sentient has karma...individual karma.

Perhaps it is more like my hippie friends used to say, 'It's what you bring to the party.'

I agree...kindof sounds like someone suggesting some lineages are 'cursed'.

and more often than not, it's based upon the personal bias of the one claiming the curse.

karma = cause and effect