林愛偉

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Stick with the Taiji Quan and Yiquan till you can find someone with good Wing Chun. Just keep in mind to make your applications smaller and practical. You would have no problems issuing any explosive force in that manner. Peace, Lin

Huo Yuan Jia T.V. Series/Movie My Favorite!!! http://www.mysoju.com/huo-yuan-jia-fok-yuen-gep/

It is very additive hehehe Very true to Martial Arts Virtuous Cultivation. Good example of Wu De. Peace, Lin

When I wrote this, I should have wrote it a bit clearly. . haha My English has become a terrible thing since I speak Chinese now. I meant to say: " Taiji Quan, originally, was direct, but nowadays, because of the idea that people can live off of the martial arts, they commercialized certain applications, and made them GIGANTIC. Hence, the bigness of Taiji Quan in today's world. Don't get me wrong. Wing Chun has its ridiculous commercial applications and craziness of practitioners thinking they are kings of the world all because Wing Chun was a fairly newly introduced system here in the west, and the hooking of the Chinese face to cheesy applications sells. Originally, Wing Chun, or any martial art for that matter, was only passed to a few disciples in order to keep to the pure foundation. After Leung Jan of Wing Chun, many began accepting more and more students, when they should have been keeping a close watch on the principles and foundation of the system, pushing virtue as the most important foundation to learning Wing Chun. Because Wing Chun is vicious in application, it should be reserved for well mannered, virtuous and moral individuals. Not hot headed, muscle formed wild horses and monkey minded fellows, men and women alike. THat's why Taiji Quan has a great reputation, because it stresses stillness and good character development. It is one of the reasons why began pressing the old standards of Wu De when teaching my students. IF they can't accord with it, they can go. Peace and Blessings, Lin

I heard of this as well. A big cult, no real cultivation.. dangerous indeed. Its best to stick to good old fashioned cultivation with no commercialism of skills. Taiji Quan has all one needs... health benefits, cultivation of mind and energy, and fighting. Wing Chun has all of these, yet it is unfortunate that because of the position of shoulders in Chisau, many WIng Chun guys get shoulder problems from not learning how to relax fast enough. This is why teaching proper placement and alignment is so important, as well as sensitivity training. Its all in there for both, but like all teachers, some pick and choose what they like and dislike.. I say, take it all, the difficult, cultivate, the easy maintain. Peace and Blessings and stay away from Pathgste Lin

Very good. Not every Wing Chun and Taiji practitioner is good at what they do. There re many quick handed techniques in both Taiji and Wing Chun. In practice and most applications out there...Taiji Quan isn't direct. Its originally, not among the majority nowadays. That's why I said what I said. One man's success isn't the face of the whole system. There are many factors involved, and just for the sake of it, both Taiji Quan and Wing Chun hold similar principles. If the Wing Chun man is too fixed in posture (Fighting by the book recipes) then anything a skilled fighter would do, will overwhelm him. Just to clear up the 2 to 3 moves statement... utilizing a technique has many applications. I count a move as application. A hit to the face following a hit to the collar bone is 2 techniques, two moves. Good : Peace, Lin

Well, my student is in Germany, but he only trained for 2 months under me while I lived in China. He's good for 2 months, almost everyday training, but he only has 2 months. He already beat up a top disciple of a gov. sanctioned Wing Chun school.. haha Long Story. Other than my student in Germany.. there is my other student, the German's gongfu brother, in Israel. He was with me for a year, and has 1st and 2nd forms, and Chisau. He can't offer living space though.. not sure. Peace, Lin

I understand your take on it Not attacking you at all, just want to be clear on these points Wing Chun was made from Buddhist Monks! But not for being nice to people. You can take the compassionate road and be soft, but mixing in Taiji Quan is not the way. Wing Chun has all of that in there...like I said, its a complete system. You don't have to hurt the person if you don't want to, and that takes control, and cultivation of no-self so as not to show off!. I too cultivate Buddhism, and cultivate Wing Chun and Taiji Quan. Yet, I don't mix Taiji Quan's principles there because I know that Wing Chun has it as well, just a different structure. As for the video, hehe.. one can't change Wing Chun's structure for the sake of being soft. One changes their mind, then, the structure of body follows. If they change the structure and call it Wing Chun, its not Wing Chun.. It is a hybrid, and holds no true semblance to its proper origin just like Jeet Kune Do. Peace, Lin

Wing Chun will enhance your foot work for Taiji Quan, strengthen your rooting abilities and allow you to realize how to cut the circle, and uitilize technique on straight forward angular attacks and defenses. You will gain sensitivity training in Wing Chun that will break taiji Quan's circular defense, short distance striking power that takes years to develop with Taiji Quan will be attained with proper Wing Chun training. Peace, Lin

Yes Wing Chun is an Internal System of Fighting, but to train the internal aspect you need a teacher to show you exactly what mouse stated: "Structure, alignment, body movement, energetics, touching center are all same principles." AND you will need to learn Precise positioning, how to strike without carrying your strength, the most important is FOOTWORK. Not every Wing Chun family out there has even close to decent footwork, so their internal isn't internal, its just striking, pushing and effortful movements... Wing Chun has an economy of motion principle. This principle is based on footwork and practicality. Utilized correctly will blow the opponent away. Unrealized footwok would leave the Wing Chun man overpowered, or left to the dogs...haha The clip of the Chisau wasn't internal. It was Chi Sau but showed more Taiji Quan stepping than Wing Chun, and the rolling of the hands was more geared towards a push hands likeness than actual Chisau. Real internal Chisau is when there is proper redirection of force by small cuts and shifts with the hips and alignments with the joints and spine. When hit the energy is enormous, and the technique used doesn't seem like much. It will be fast because in fighting everything is fast, but utilizing muscular pushing and swinging techniques without the body properly aligned behind it is not internal cultivation. That video had internal to it, but it wasn't proper Chisau in that respects, more a mixture of Taiji Quan principles. Internal application doesn't have to always resemble Taiji Quan's principles.. haha It seems that people want everything to look like Taiji Quan, and even mutate Wing Chun to do it. You can't mix Taiji Quan and Wing Chun. Its irresponsible. Taiji Quan and Wing Chun are two complete systems, meaning they have their practical principles and theories...they have a science behind them. You can't mix the two, but you can respectfully learn them. Only in transitioning between techniques will applications look similar...nothing more. A hit is a hit, a push a push. But when proper focus and positioning/application is behind it all, though it is still a push and a hit, it holds more power. Wing Chun is more direct than Taiji Quan. Ultimately in Taiji Quan cultivation, you don't want to hurt the person, but utilize his force to subdue him. Wing Chun is geared for breaking, disabling, ending the confrontation in at least 3 moves if not 2. A 20 minute fight would be 10 seconds with Wing Chun...IF THE PERSON KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. Peace, Lin

Great! I ripped the video from the cds I bought last year.. its good to have both Eng subs and Chinese SPeech for better practice... THANKS! Peace, Lin

I've been watching it since I lived in China.. haha Foudn it last year and bought the cd..all in CHinese, I was hoping one day to find one with english subtitles so every one out here can understand the history of the last 100+ yrs China faced, and possibly get a chance to understand more of why things are the way they are in China. The series is a very historically correct movie...to an extent on Huo Yuan Jia's life, it is very very very very close to the truth...except he had a few boys and 2 daughters.. hahaha Enjoy it. It gets more and more deeper and intense. If you understood Chinese, its even more emotional, deeper in meaning and amazingly cultural. Very great depiction of true Chinese culture in this series. Peace and Blessings, Lin

Sorry Brother! I must have not posted it properly. http://www.mysoju.com/huo-yuan-jia-fok-yuen-gep/ Cut and paste then :-)

There is no difference of this outcome in Daoist and Buddhist schools. Qi is Qi, and has its results generally. The cultivation process is a cultivation process as long as there is a being cultivating. No cultivation, no process. If no one is cultivating their mind, there is nothing being done. One will not attain, and one will just remain an ordinary being. :-) Peace and Blessings, Lin

Too much attachment to Daoism and Buddhism; this is this and that is that...this is better because, and that isn't because... the truth is, it doesn't matter at all. Daoism or Buddhism, the only problem is the mind cultivating through the views attached to the WORD Daoism and Buddhism. Both are complete methods of cultivation. THe mind determines which one gets you to the ultimate gaol of Complete and Pure Enlightenment. Daoism doesn't speak of it, Buddhism does. Buddhism doesn't speak of Qi and these things , Daoism does. It doesn't mean Buddhism is incomplete. It just means Buddhism's education doesn't need to focus on the energetic process to gain freedom from birth and death. Daoism focuses on the function, body more, and this just takes a bit longer to attain enlightenment because of the attachment in views of form and bliss states, feelings and emotions, an I, an ego. Doesn't mean Daoism is incomplete, only that there is its specific methods for its specific goals. All of this; Buddhism is this and Daoism is that, points right and directly to the duality in the mind of us all. Obviously, there is no stillness in our minds here, even with all this "entering the void" talk and stillness in mind and motion and blah blah blah.. cultivate more. This thread is redundant and full of false thoughts. Then again, all of what I have written are false thoughts as well.. hahaha Enjoy Peace and Blessings, Lin

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Well, truthfully, the Buddha never taught Qigong as we know qigong today. What was taught was meditation, postures both mental and physical; mind investigation. Through those postures, your mind became free from afflictions and the body began to transform from a more heavier to a more lighter manifestation. It came with wisdom, patience and compassion and through that the lessening of karmic afflictions both enjoyable and not enjoyable. There are standing, sitting, lying and walking cultivation to work with. Because the Buddha is not in the world right now, prerequisites for actual real Buddhist cultivation in the sense of attaining true and actual wisdom, which will get you your spiritual powers as you really attain wisdom, is taking refuge with the Triple Jewel. Anything other than that is just outside practice and not real Buddhism. One can go with what Damo taught, but to actually gain the fruit of that cultivation, all of your mind and heart must be focused on attaining the way, ending birth and death, and attaining enlightenment. This enlightenment is no where in the realm of what most people assume it is. :-) There is a door.. but one must give up many many things to enter it Peace and Blessings, Lin

What kind of Qigong are you looking for of the Buddhist School?

If you do good things, you get good results, bad things get bad results. Change your habits, views and plant the seeds for good things to manifest in your future. Become a student of the cultivation school of Buddhism, and loads of afflictions transform instantly. Cultivate diligently, and more and more "bad karma" which is heavy and turbid begins to lessen, lighten, though still there, the big become small, adn the small can become transformed. Peace and Blessings, Lin Not wrong views from this Mahayana Sutra excerpt. Just a different teaching for the conditions of the mindds at the time. WHen concentration is applied, without a second thought, then afflictions fall away...only said to fall, they transform. Like the flip of the hand: One is the palm, one is the knucle side. Enlightenment and Affliction is the same way...all it is , is a flip of the hand. THe Mantras function in so many ways. Recitation of certain mantras, wholeheartedly, sincerely, with concentration and no false thinking: daydreaming, chasing emotions, etc, then karma will be lessened..negative karma. It plants the seeds tfor proper conditions to further cultivate unhindered. Theravadan teachings were taught to those of the conditions for the Theravadan teachings..Mahayana teachings were taught for those with the conditions for the Mahayana...it is thus the living beings who label, and categorize the Education of Buddhism...No higher, no lower, just expedients! Peace and Blessings, Lin

I agree... they are off either in translation and or in studies. Peace, Lin

This isn't the only one. In China therear emany patriarchs whose bodies remain for over several hundred years in siting position. During the cultural revolution, many of the temples holding those bodies were destroyed and some of the bodies were destroyed too..but there are many many cultivators who when leaving their body, keep the body in a particular position. Many go standing up, sitting in meditation, walking, lying, hanging from tree branches. This is no mystery in the Buddhist school. This is a common thing. It is not a sign of Buddhahood, or sagehood, or any highly revered label/consciousness. It is an outcome of proper cultivation. The only way scientists will understand is if they cultivate Buddhism, and apply themselves sincerely. People still think they are their bodies...that's the first deluded thought scientists must drop to actually comprehend anything. Peace and Blessings, Lin

Ｗhich brings me to comment, the Jet Li movie of HUo Yuan Jia isn't the real story. Its mainly fabricated, and the Huo family requested Jet Li and the producers for an apology for not even speaking with the family about the story line and how it depicts Huo Yuan Jia. There are two historical t.v. series, both called Huo Yuan Jia. Depict his life story very very very well. One is from many many many years ago, and a new version is from last year.go to www.youku.com, and search 霍元甲。。。you will find loads of vids..hehehe all in Putonghua... Peace and Blessings, Lin

Greetings Every One, The Martial Arts cultivation of my school is finally established to an extent. In Staten Island I found a wonderful group of people who are the epitamy of humility and virtue and morality. The place is called Longview Wellness Center located on 2096/98 Clove Road Staten Island 10305 I am leading the Chinese Martial Arts dept. as well as Buddhist cultivation; Meditation, Standing, Sitting, Lying and Walking cultivation practices (QiGong/Neigong). Here's my website link: Jing Xin Yuan: Wu De I think I posted it before, but the establishment I am working with has opened the doors for me to establish Jing Xin Yuan under their roof... and since I can't find the other post of something similar to this one, haha I am re-posting, sharing with you all, the news I consider good Peace and Blessings, Lin