The crap with watching fountains to learn martial arts was invented in Hong Kong to make 30 minutes of cheap filler material for hard-to-choreograph and hence expensive action movies. See any one Jackie Chan movie and you'll know what I'm talking about.
As to the crap with apprentices sweeping the master's rug, that's just free labour being exploited. Pure ECONOMICS, zero philosophy.
...if the enlightened feel like sharing, THEY DO. And if they don't, they stay their enlightened self at home and don't push ideas around on CZ.
OH, AND BTW, THIS IS ACTUALLY ****ANGEL OF EVENTIDES**** THREAD. Not TheGuru's.