I was reading this blog entry, and I've actually seen the same break-chopsticks-with-a-dollar-bill trick. I figure there aren't that many people in this world who could/would perform this trick, so it's probably the same guy. It was at Taiji Legacy this summer at the master's demo.

At first I was amazed like crazy! But after the show though, I heard some people (including my sifu) talking about it and they said that the trick was a crock of BS... Someone else said his master had held the chopsticks for him before once and had seen him stick out his finger to break. I was pretty confused- I didn't know what to think. I mean, I performed also that night, and I saw the chopstick fragments on the stage... they didn't look like they'd been broken by a finger...

I was thinking about this event and about my own hesitance to believe in the concept of "chi," when I was reminded of this episode of Walker, Texas Ranger that I'd watched before. There were these bad guys who were martial arts masters and could do stuff that seemed impossible ( ; you know they were masters cuz they don't let Chuck Norris get beat up very often, hahahaha). Well, anyways, so Walker & his sidekick go to the hospital to talk to this old guy who's connected to the baddies somehow. He said something really profound, along the lines of:

"[You Westerners worship the religion of Science. It is a powerful religion. It has brought you great progress and technology... but it cannot explain miracles.]"