OVERVIEW OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SERIES
July to December 2009

July August September October November December

July 2009

July 2009 (Part 1)

There are countless techniques for meditation, but they may be classified into two main categories, namely to attain a one-pointed mind and to attain no mind, which actually means all mind. In mathematical terms, all meditation may be reduced to one or zero.

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July 2009 (Part 2)

There are three requirements for success in any art, namely the method, the teacher and the student. The methods I describe in my books or website are the best for the purpose. My instructions are clear and simple, and serve as a good teacher. If you follow the instructions respectfully, including not worrying unnecessarily, you are a good student.

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July 2009 (Part 3)

If we live in a law-abiding society where fighting seldom if ever occurs, why do we dedicate so much time and effort to practice a martial art like Shaolin Kungfu and Wahnam Taijiquan?

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August 2009

August 2009 (Part 1)

Taijiquan

Hence, when an opponent attacks you with "Black Tiger Steals Heart", if you wish to speed up your counter, you can respond at the first point of time with the tactic of "no defence direct counter" using the technique "White Snake Shoots Venom". You will strike him a split second after he starts his attack. If you wish to slow him down, you can respond at the third point of time with the tactic of "first defend then counter" using "Single Tiger" and "Black Tiger". You can slow down your counter to 12 seconds.

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August 2009 (Part 2)

In other words, when you see a sexually attractive girl, you don't have to try to be sexually aroused. If the sexual arousal occurs naturally, enjoy yourself wholesomely, alone or with that girl or another girl, provided of course that she willingly consents and also enjoys the sexual arousal.

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August 2009 (Part 3)

How did students in the Northern and the Southern Temples spar?
They sparred the way we now spar - no rules but a lot of control and also a lot of laughter and fun. Like us too, injuries were rare.
Certainly they used the techniques and skills they normally practiced. They did not bounce about like Boxers or Kick-Boxers. They used Shaolin Kungfu in their sparring and fighting. We know this for sure. Some of their sparring as well as actual fighting has been recorded in text and pictures.

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September 2009

September 2009 (Part 1)

Hui Ke

Practicing genuine, traditional Shaolin Kungfu not only contributes to spiritual cultivation, it is spiritual culticvation itself. When we practice Shaolin Kungfu, we are practicing Zen itself. Many of us in Shaolin Wahnam have more and deeper spiritual experiences while practicing Shaolin Kungfu than when practicing Zen meditation.

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September 2009 (Part 2)

Pushing Mountain

Building internal force in any correct way will enhance life in all aspects. No matter what you do -- whether internally like overcoming harmful viruses and regulating your metabolic systems, or externally like reading a book or playing games -- you will do better.

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September 2009 (Part 3)

Breaking the Lower Brick

One of the great secrets we often emphasize is that often it is not the technique that is most important but how the technique is being practiced. In other words, it is the "how" rather than the "what" that is more important.

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October 2009

October 2009 (Part 1)

In the practice, we do not think of the Stillness, and we do not think of merging with the Cosmos. We just enjoy the practice. As a rough and mundane analogy, when you enjoy eating a mango, you don't think of the mango. You also don't think of eating the mango, or enjoying the eating. You just enjoy the process.

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October 2009 (Part 2)

The principle came after the experience, not vice versa. In other wards, after countless occasions when Wing Choon practitioners had used this movement to defend against a thrust punch or a finger-thrust, they generalized their experiences into a principle. It was not the other way round. It was not that some smart Wing Choon master thought of a principle, then Wing Choon practitioners put this into use.

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October 2009 (Part 3)

When people learn from my books or webpages and get benefits, they often think the benefits are fantastic. They know the benefits will be more if they learn from me personally, but it is difficult for them to know how much more. They may think it is a bit more, or even two or three times more. But it is difficult for them to appreciate that the difference is incomparable.

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November 2009

November 2009 (Part 1)

Small Universe

This is the main reason why it is found at the start of virtually all Shaolin sets and modern wushu sets. In Taijiquan sets, "Lifting Sun and Moon" is modified to "Lifting Water", which is also found at the start of virtually all Taijiquan sets. Most Shaolin, wushu and Taijiquan practitioners today do not realize this secret, though they still perform their outward forms.

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November 2009 (Part 2)

Meditation

It is a common mis-conception, even among some advanced practitioners, that internal force is necessarily soft. Just as exteranl force can be soft, internal force can also be very hard. Wing Choon and Aikido are examples of external arts that are soft. Hsing Yi Kungfu is a good example of a hard, internal martial art.

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November 2009 (Part 3)

Tiger Claws

One important aspect of jabbing beans that students should know, but actually many don't. is that incorrect practice may affect the eyes. Another important aspect is that the jabbing into the beans should be performed in a relaxed manner, and not with tensed muscles as many uninitiated students usually do.

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December 2009

December 2009 (Part 1)

Smiling from the Heart

Spiritual cultivation is not the same as religious cultivation. In other words, a person while cultivating spiritually can choose to follow a particular religion or not to follow any religion at all.

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December 2009 (Part 2)

Shaolin Kungfu

A sparring mind-set is a fighting mind-set. There should not be different. We spar the way we actually fight, except of course that in friendly sparring we hold our strikes. You may, however, vary the intensity of threat in different sparring or fighting situations.

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December 2009 (Part 3)

Church of Moscow

You would be impressed to know that both great masters and modern scientists say the same thing, i.e. our world is unreal! But we perceive it as "objective" due to our conditions, like how our eyes receive energy and how our collective human consciousness interprets it.

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