I had the opportunity to interview Shifu this summer, on my last night in Wudang.
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ESTA ES LA VERSIÓN INGLESA, PARA LA VERSIÓN ESPAÑOLA CLICA AQUÍ:
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I prepared a few questions that I wanted to hear the answer to from someone with such strong judgment, some for my personal interest, some for community interest, and some were actually posed by users in my networks, covering a breadth of related areas with Taoist practice and tradition, and shedding light on many of the most common misunderstandings about this culture.
In order not to shorten the answers, I have divided them into three chapters.
In this first we find:
00:00 introduction
01:11 Could you give a brief introduction on what Taoist practice means to you and its purpose?
04:34 Which are the bases that every Kungfu student should know?
07:00 How do you think the martial training helps the spiritual development?
09:01 What are the most important benefits you feel Taoist practice has provided you personally?
13:42 What key differences are there between Taoist culture and Taoist religion? Where do they overlap?
22:23 Belonging to a Wudang lineage is the same as being monk or noon?
Chen Lisheng is a Taoist master, residing in Wudang Mountain, Hubei, China.
He belongs to the 15th generation of the Xuanwupai clan as a disciple of Grandmaster You Xuande.
He was the first Wudang monk to graduate in Taoism from the Beijing Taoist Institute.
He served as secretary to Li Guangfu, current president of the China Taoist Association.
and abbot of the Purple Clouds Temple of Wudang.
10 years ago he decided to dedicate himself to teaching Taoist arts at his Wuji Academy,
recently relocated to a small rural town in the Wudangshan Special Zone.
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Find the other videos in this series “Knocking on the Doors of the Dao” here:
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About the translation:
I have tried to maintain the structure and meaning of each sentence in its corresponding moment, minimally altering the original grammatical structure, for those who want to compare it with the Chinese subtitles, which keep the most literal shape.
All transcriptions follow the modern Pinyin system, without tone marking, to facilitate consultation, except for some terms with great cultural roots that are already better known in different ways, such as Tao 道, instead of /Dao/, and its derivatives such as Taoism; or Kungfu 功夫, instead of /Gongfu/, as well as a few other terms. While in other cases I prefer to claim a correction to the trend, as in the case of TaijiQuan 太极拳 instead of “Tai Chi Chuan”, for example.
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Although this video is informative in nature, if you want to go deeper, the audiovisual support does not offer the guarantee of being able to transmit the technique correctly, nor the injury prevention that personalized instruction can provide and integrated into a progressive routine with a global vision, for which In-person teaching is necessary, therefore it is important to maximize caution and rule out any uncomfortable or painful positions.
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For those who do not know me, my name is Asis Vendrell, Taoist name Weiwei, instructor of internal martial arts, specializing in the Wudang Xuanwupai style as a disciple of Shifu Chen Lisheng, 15th generation heir of the martial lineage that begins with Zhang Sanfeng, creator of the Taijiquan.
I lived in Wudang for more than a year between 2019 and 2020, and this year I was able to return thanks to the reopening of China, returning to collaborate as an instructor at Shifu’s academy, Wudang Wuji GongfuGuan, located in one of the highest areas of Wudangshan , Hubei province, China.
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