the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Flying Monk Ep 33

Thanks for the tip and for doing it. I get a sense that this gent must be a very kind and generous teacher. Looking forward to the second part.

Thanks for the kind words Tom )

Yes all these topics and people you mention are coming up in the next episodes, Li really covers a lot of ground.

Putting aside modern revisionists who would debunk anything older than 200 years old as pure myth (whatever that means.....one only has to reference the recent HK academic book debacle to see an example) we can start to listen, really pay attention, to the great wisdom contained in the oral teachings of the old lineages.

Li is basically saying that Damo's teachings of transformation of body/mind underly all original Baguaquan , and once informed most Chinese martial arts, but the deep teachings have been mostly lost leaving a shell of simple exercise sets.

Will post more very soon....thanks to Li Baohua for sharing so much, and to everyone for watching our channel. And to Tom, who is also a jewel, his body honed through long practice into something resembling a whiskey bottle...

Having said that, someone with great breadth of perspective and depth of training describes specific exercises coming through Ch'an and Zen teaching lines that seem to be consistent with coming from a common source. In the case of that school of Buddhism, the source traditionally attributed would be Damo (Bodhidharma).

Maybe it would be better to say Chan and Daoism. In the Song and Ming dynasties the practices of Buddhist meditation and Daoist neidan were really mixed up. In the Ming dynast mixed versions of practices, both Buddhist and Daoist, were spread all over China. If the origin of Yijinjing is old (which I at least partly doubt) then the origin should be found in one of these periods. In the time of Damo, there were Indian meditation and Daoist Daoyin, but Buddhism and Taoism and their disciplines were kept very much separated. The Yijinjing type of practice clearly has a much more Chinese and Daoist origin than Buddhist.

A+++ for Bao

In this instance I will say this puppet show will have more substance on this subject～