Chi flow is the essence that helps people overcome pain and illness, including so-called incurable diseases. Chi flow is the essence that gives us good health, vitality and longevity. Chi flow is the essence that gives us mental clarity and spiritual joys. Chi flow is the essence that enables us to have internal force in a ridiculously short time.

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Only a small minority of practitioners enjoy benefits of their training across other aspects of their daily life. In other words, not only they become better chi kung and kungfu performers, they also become better persons. But, as far as I know, we are the only school that systematically teach our students to use the philosophy and skills not only of chi flow and internal force but also of all their training to enrich their daily life. This certainly is a key innovation to preserve the greatness of the arts we teach.

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Indeed there are many chi kung facts that we in Shaolin Wahnam know very well, but are not widely known or appreciated by most other chi kung practitioners. The following are some important examples. Being in a chi kung state of mind is essential in performing chi kung. If there is no chi flow, what is performed is just gentle physical exercise. Skills and techniques are different. We practice chi kung because of the benefits it gives us.

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In kungfu, depending on various situations different breathing methods are used. Generally the method is "follow", where there is no conscious breathing in and out through the nose or mouth, but energy flows in and out of practitioners' body spontaneously. This is a main reason why our students can spar for hours without panting for breaths, simply because there is no breathing in the modern sense of the word.

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The information in some books is correct, but the authors do not understand the meaning. They merely repeated or translated what they found in classics. How does a genuine master know that the information is wrong, or that the authors do not understand the right information he reproduced? The master has direct experience of the right information.

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Clear the mind of all thoughts. Define the problem with a clear mind. Once the problem is defined, solutions will appear. Translate the solutions you see in your clear mind as practical actions, not as philosophical issues.

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The most fundamental kungfu set in Southern Shaolin is "Four Gates". It was the fundamental kungfu set taught at the southern Shaolin Temple at the city of Quanzhou before it was burnt down by the Qing army around 1850s.

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I understood many of the Taijiquan secrets through meditation and direct teaching from the Cosmos as well as through extrapolation form my experience. Indeed, sometimes I also felt that I had taken a short-cut to bypass much of the trial and error some lineages went through.

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It must be genuine chi kung and not gentle physical exercise. The main difference is that genuinee chi kung works on chi, whereas gentle phyical works on the physical body. If one does not experience chi or does not know what chi is, he only practices general physical exercise though the patterns are chi kung forms.

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Seeing light is a common occurrence amongst our students, though in most other schools it is only experienced at a masters' level. Just enjoy the experience but don't worry or intellectualize on it.

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"Breathing" in Cosmic Breathing is not the same as everyday breathing through the nose and mouth. Many people, including some masters, may be unaware of this fact.

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There are two main strategies when fighting against multiple opponents, namely "Fighting with a Fort Behind" and "Entering a Herd of Sheep".

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Many students have told me that "smiling from the heart" is their best exercise. I am glad you have found it valuable. It is wonderful that you feel love and compassion when smiling from the heart.

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The essence of chi kung is chi flow. At the bottom line, it doesn't matter what exercise a practitioner does, and how perfectly or otherwise he does it, as long as there is chi flow he is doing chi kung and not gentle exercise, and he obtains benefits.

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Genuine Shaolin martial artists, who are very rare today, do not love fighting. They prefer not to fight if they can, but if they have to fight, they can fight well. In a fight, the first principle of genuine Shaolin martial artists is safety first. In other words, they prefer losing a fight by remain unhurt to winning a fight but injured.

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Our arts give us not only good health but also vitality. It is due mainly to our development of internal force and mental clarity. Many of our students have reported that not only they are not tired in vigorous activities like sports and demanding activities like working for their Ph D, but also they enjoy what they do.

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Chi kung can overcome any disease, but this does not mean that every patient can overcome his illness. In the same way, everyone can become a millionaire, but it does not mean that everyone is a millionaire.

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Cloud Hands and Lifting Water (from 108-Pattern Yang Style Set) are excellent methods to teach flowing force, and Single Dragon Emerges from Sea (from Triple Stretch) and Double Dragons Emerge from Sea (from Dragon-Tiger) are excellent for teaching consolidating force to both beginners and advanced practitioners.

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