Li Jin-fei

[Shinobi]

Does anyone have any information about, who was one of T.T. Liang's teachers? Searches elsewhere haven't brought much up so perhaps he was relatively unknown but I'd love to know more about him.

Edited November 1, 2019 by Shinobi

[ThisLife]

I believe that he was the main disciple of the greatest spirtual teacher ever to come from North Korea, the Reverend Up Bum Fok.

Edited April 19, 2015 by ThisLife

[Chang]

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When someone new to the forum posts a question it helps little to make sarcastic and offensive remarks in reply.

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[ThisLife]

Sorry,... will try to be better behaved in future. I was unaware the poster was new to the forum. This isn't an excuse. Sometimes the devil gets into me - but you're right. It isn't helpful or appreciated.

[Shinobi]

I will let you off, seeing as you are a fellow Cumbrian

[ThisLife]

Wow !! I never thought I'd see the day ! A fellow Cumbrian on Tao Bums ... I thought there was almost nothing here except for sheep, mountains, and busloads of tourists buying trinkets at the Beatrix Potter Museum in Windermere.

 

In honour of this historic occasion I feel moved to make a full confession - the Venerable Mr U.B. Fok isn't actually from Korea. He, too, is a Cumbrian. He comes from that somewhat dubiously-named town out on the wild west coast - Cockermouth. (Only in Cumbria could you say with a straight face, that you're from that place, eh ?)

Edited April 21, 2015 by ThisLife

[Nikolai1]

I used to live in Cockermouth, right on the banks of the Cocker myself. Happy days actually. Gorgeous drive to work to Whitehaven. Waking heaven. Ducks dippers and kingfishers outside the window. Kirkstile Inn pub, Melbreak Beer...man this was ten years ago.

[Nikolai1]

Oh and you need to say it as the locals do...cockermuth...not mouth

[Shinobi]

I must go to Cockermouth and seek out Mr Fok. Perhaps the mysterious Li Jin Fei will also be found there and we can do T'ai Chi on the banks of the River Cocker.

I must wait for my sword to arrive off eBay first, however. Li Jin Fei was, according to T.T. Liang, one of the last masters of the sword tassel art, so he can show me what to do. 

[ThisLife]

I used to live in Cockermouth, right on the banks of the Cocker myself. Happy days actually. Gorgeous drive to work to Whitehaven. Waking heaven. Ducks dippers and kingfishers outside the window. Kirkstile Inn pub, Melbreak Beer...man this was ten years ago.

 

Yes, Cockermouth certainly is one of the greatest paradoxes of the Lake District. It's undoubtedly one of the most beautiful, laid-back, arts and craftsy, cultural towns in the whole of Cumbria - yet it somehow got saddled with a name that makes it sound like the unlikely setting for the lowest form of X-rated porn flick.

 

However, even more curious than all that is how a lad like yourself, who actually lived on the banks of the Cocker,.... would ten years later find themselves living in Finland amongst the pine forests and wild moose. Were you motivated by the musical praise lavished on your new-found country by those capable spokesmen of English culture, the Messrs Monty Python & Co. ? I know that when I first heard their lovely song below, I was sorely tempted to up sticks and move to Finland myself. Though I didn't go in the end, I've nevertheless always wondered, "Does the country live up to those famous Python lyrics ?"

 

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Edited April 21, 2015 by ThisLife

[Nikolai1]

However, even more curious than all that is how a lad like yourself, who actually lived on the banks of the Cocker,.... would ten years later find themselves living in Finland amongst the pine forests and wild moose.

 

It's true that Cockermouth failed to live up to its salacious sounding moniker.  But never one to be disheartened, I set off for Finland - which, I was promised, is the true and authentic home of the lapdance,..

 

Well, I wasn't entirely deceived, and the fault was surely mine in part...but I soon found that Lapp Dancing was something quite different...

[soaring crane]

Mr Fok in Cockermouth... Is this a Monty Python skit?

[Marblehead]

Where did Mr. Li go?

 

(I did a search for him but found nothing.)

[ThisLife]

Mr Fok in Cockermouth... Is this a Monty Python skit?

 

Funny that you should recognise this relatively little known connection. In the very early days of Monty Python, (shortly after they first formed), they wrote a well-received but nowadays little known skit about an incident in the life of Cockermouth's beloved home town saint, Mr U.B. Fok.

 

About five years later they decided to make the film "The Life of Brian". During the writing of the script Eric Idle suggested that they re-work their previous Mr Fok sketch so that it would fit in better with life in Palestine during the early years of the Christian era.

 

 

Below is a link to their rewritten sketch, in which Michael Palin plays the now re-jigged, (but still instantly recognisable), Mr Fok perfectly :

 

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Edited April 21, 2015 by ThisLife