By Mikhail Saavedra
It came as a shock, all the details notwithstanding, I still find it hard to believe it.
Forget the fact that I simply can’t believe he killed himself, I prefer to leave the details to the sharks in the press that prefer to dwell on the unimportant. You see there was a more profound layer to this man who for many of us became the entry door to ancient secrets and genuine wisdom.
To me as a child watching endlessly boring TV shows with much ado about nothing, Kung Fu was a revelation. He was a Zen master, an invincible yet modest Shaolin master with the true essence of a Tai Chi Chuan master. There was something gentle yet powerful as he quoted Taoist philosophy to the intolerant. Growing up in a rather intolerant society myself, Kung Fu was refreshing and enlightening and it was a great reminder that sometimes the right path was unlikely to be the easiest, quickest one.
The inherent “hipness” of David Carradine is not merely that he influenced a whole generation of people to take the path of traditional martial arts, but also that he was by and large, a very intense actor. He worked all his life and came from one of the powerhouse acting dynasties in the United States, like his father John, he worked to the very end and went from great social justice epics like “Bound for Glory” to not so great, but famous in their own way movies like “Death Race 2000″. It was Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” that brought him back to popular awareness and proved once and for all that Carradine could be a helluva an actor when given the right material.
After all is said and done I want to think of David Carradine as a companion in my childhood that taught me the value of wisdom and discipline with reason, I will think of him doing his final walk on “Kill Bill” and with these words from “Kung Fu” running through my mind:
Young Caine: Master, what is the best way to meet the loss of a loved one?
Master Kan: By knowing that when we truly love, it is never lost… It is only after death that the depth of the bond is truly felt, and our loved one becomes more a part of us than was possible in life.
Young Caine: Are we only able to feel this toward those whom we have known and loved a long time?
Master Kan kill bill vol 2 movie download: Sometimes a stranger, known to us for moments, can spark our souls to kinship for eternity.
And so the little grasshopper remains…
Just a little fyi- He did not “kill himself” thank the lord- he actually endured more of a Heath Ledger-style tragic situation- the combination of an ‘excess’ of life’s pleasures led to his final downfall. Sad, but true. Coming from a close friend of his.
He had come just to be forced to become normal again, just to become a working part of the normal world again. He had become maladjusted; he needed adjustment and the psychiatrist helped him to be adjusted again. But adjusted to whom? Adjusted to this world, this society, which is absolutely ill.
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