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(Jesse Enkamp) Oct. 21, 2022. Sifu Shi Heng Yi is headmaster of Shaolin Temple Europe.
Today he shows the secrets of Buddhist temple kung fu training.
What if they made a Hollywood movie?
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Test your might • Shaolin Spirit | Shi Heng Yi
(TEDx Talks) TEDxBaiaMare, Nov. 29, 2022. This speech leaves us asking ourselves many questions. We must own our life! "Life doesn't get any easier. You get stronger!"
Master Shi Heng Yi (释恒義) is the headmaster of the Shaolin Temple Europe (歐洲少林寺).
He functions as the physical and mental trainer of Buddhist novices, disciples, and master students of a European Shaolin Buddhist monastery in Otterberg, Germany.
What if I got a weekly TV show of my own?
His endeavor and goal is to explain and convey theoretical principles in an understandable way and above all to make this knowledge tangible and practical in daily life. In this way it is usable for people.
For more than 30 years, Sifu (pronounced \shee-foo\ or "Master") Shi Heng Yi has been studying and practicing the interaction between mind and body. His strength is his ability to smoothly combine knowledge with physical exercises to practice the martial arts of Kung Fu and Qi Gong.
He has an academic background but prefers to live at Shaolin Temple Europe, a German Buddhist monastery in Otterberg.
Since 2010 he has been caring for the settlement and personifies the sustainable development and spreading of Shaolin culture and philosophy. As a contemporary Buddhist monk, Master Yi holds a smartphone in the folds of his clothes as he sees no contradiction between living together with ancient knowledge and modern technology.
“The universal law of being successful and happy at the same time means finding the balance,” says Master Yi.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx,
This is a motivational video for those who train in kung fu. It contains various fights between Shaolin Buddhist monks practicing kung fu and other martial arts.
Kung fu Buddhist monks Wiki edited by Wisdom Quarterly
The umbrella term kung fu (功夫) or wushu (武術) refers to Chinese martial arts. There are several hundred fighting styles that developed over the centuries.
These styles are often classified according to common traits, identified as martial arts "families" (家/jiā), "sects" (派/pài), or "schools" (門/mén).
Examples of these traits include Shaolin-quan (少林拳), physical exercises involving mimicry of the Five Animals (五形), and training methods inspired by old Chinese philosophies, religions (animism, Buddhism, Confucianism, shamanism, Taoism), and legends.
Styles that focus on chi (qi, kyi, prana, spiritus) manipulation are called internal (内家拳/nèijiāquán), while others that concentrate on improving muscle and cardio fitness are called "external" (外家拳/wàijiāquán)....
Fighting Shaolin Temple monks
Shaolin Temple was built in 495 AD on Song Mountain, and the first Buddhist monk who taught Buddhism there was the Indian monk Ven. Buddhabhadra (佛陀跋陀罗/Fótuóbátuóluó), called Batuo (跋陀).
His first two Chinese disciples, Huiguang and Sengchou, had exceptional martial abilities. Sengchou's skill with a tin staff is documented in the Chinese Buddhist canon.
After Ven. Buddhabadra, there came a western South Indian Buddhist monk named Ven. Bodhidharma (菩提达摩/Pútídámó), called Damo (达摩). It was 527 AD. His Chinese disciple, Huike, was also a skilled martial arts expert.
The implication is that these first three Chinese Shaolin monks -- Huiguang, Sengchou, and Huike -- may have been military men before entering the Buddhist monastic life.
The Shaolin style of kung fu is regarded as one of the first institutionalized Chinese martial arts.
The oldest evidence of Shaolin participation in combat is a stele from 728 CE. It attests to two occasions, a defense of Shaolin Monastery from bandits around 610 CE, and their subsequent role in the defeat of Wang Shichong at the Battle of Hulao in 621 CE.
However, from the 8th to the 15th centuries, there are no existing documents that provide evidence of Shaolin participation in any combat.More NOTE: The motivational videos uploaded are the result of time and effort. They are highly edited by Fight Light to make them both interesting and to comply with the "Fair Use" act to the best of our knowledge. However, if any person still has issues with this content, we are open to talk and take them down if requested. Therefore, do not hesitate to contact us via email or social media.
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It's time to celebrate Asian New Year (Courtesy of Wushu Shaolin Entertainment)
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The Queen Mary throws a special party to celebrate the Chinese New Year, featuring food, music, and live performances. Celebrate the Lunar New Year -- the "Year of the Pig" -- with music, dance and vegetarian food. There are two new costume exhibitions, one focusing on movie costumes and the other on Dolly Parton's outfits. Documentaries on Anita Hill and Lorena Bobbitt screen, and the Red Bull Music Festival begins its run. More
Master and Grasshopper in Shaolin Buddhist temple where Kwai Chang Caine was trained
Kung Fu: Caine vs. Apache Leader (Part 1)
Caine
This clip taken from the episode in Series 1 called "Dark Angel," starring David Carradine as Caine, Keye Luke as Master Po, Paul Harper as Davey Peartree, and Larry Duran as the Apache leader.
Kung Fu probably had more to do with the sudden popularity of Buddhism in North America than WW II and the discovery of Zen Buddhism and Japanese customs by U.S. troops overseas.
D.K. Suzuki and other translators, and the great British cultural translator, Alan Watts, may also have had a great deal to do with it. But for popularity's sake, this brought the Dharma to the West and incited a martial arts craze.
Kung Fu is an American action-adventure martial arts western drama television series starring David Carradine (as the grown up "Grasshopper"). The series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine.
He's portrayed by David Carradine as an adult, Keith Carradine as a teen, and Radames Pera as a boy.
The character is a Shaolin Buddhist monk who travels through the American Old West, armed only with his Buddhist spiritual training and his skill in martial arts, as he seeks Danny Caine, his half-brother.
Many of the aphorisms used in the series are adapted from or derived directly from the Tao Te Ching ("The Book of Changes"), a famous text of ancient Taoist philosophy attributed to the sage Lao-tzu. More
Buddhist Shaolin monks of China developed a Zen (Ch'an) practice and self-defense moves. Meditation disciplines the mind, cools the heart (emotions) so that what one gains in the process is precision. Rather than attacking, one controls the fight. There is no need to "repel" an attacker only to go with the flow and redirect the energy back upon the assailant. The yin-yang works like magic so that the attacker brings him/herself down with the least amount of effort and disturbance by the defender. With strength like this in the first place, one can easily avoid conflict to begin with.
Shaolin kung fu is among the oldest institutionalized styles of Chinese martial arts. It originated and was developed in the Buddhist Shaolin temple in Henan Province, China.
During the 1,500 years of its development, Shaolin kung fu became one of the largest schools of kung fu. The name Shaolin is also used as a brand for the so-called external styles of kung fu. Many styles in southern and northern China use the name Shaolin.
In meditation one lets go of the complex world outside in order to reach the serene world inside. In all types of mysticism and in many traditions, this is known as the path to the pure and powerful mind. The experience of this pure mind, released from the world, is very wonderful and blissful.
Often with meditation there will be some hard work at the beginning, but be willing to bear that hard work knowing that it will lead to the experience of some very beautiful and meaningful states.
They will be well worth the effort! It is a law of nature that without effort one does not make progress. Whether one is a layperson or a monastic, without effort one gets nowhere in meditation or in anything.
But effort alone is not sufficient. The effort needs to be skillful. This means directing energy just at the right places and sustaining it there until its task is completed. Skillful effort neither hinders nor disturbs us; instead, it produces the beautiful peace of deep meditation.
In order to know where our effort should be directed, we must have a clear understanding of the goal of meditation. The goal of this meditation is the beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind. If we can understand that goal then the place to apply our effort and the means to achieve the goal becomes very clear.
The effort is directed to letting go, to developing a mind that inclines to abandoning. One of the many simple but profound statements of the Buddha is that "a meditator whose mind inclines to abandoning, easily achieves samadhi [collectedness, composure, coherence, concentration]."
Such a meditator gains these states of inner bliss almost automatically [almost effortlessly]. What the Buddha is saying is that the major cause for attaining deep meditation and reaching these powerful states is the willingness to abandon, to let go, and to renounce [nonclinging, inner letting go].
During meditation, we do not develop a mind that accumulates and holds on to things. Instead, we develop a mind that is willing to let go of things, to let go of burdens. Outside of meditation we have to carry the burden of our many duties like many heavy suitcases, but within the period of meditation baggage is unnecessary.
So in meditation we see how much baggage we can unload. Think of these things as burdens, as heavy weights pressing on us. Then we have the right attitude for letting go of these things, abandoning them freely without looking back. This effort, this attitude, this movement of mind that inclines toward giving things up is what leads to deep meditation.
Even during the beginning stages of this meditation, we see if we can generate the energy of renunciation, the willingness to give things away and, little by little, letting go will occur. As we give things away in mind we feel much lighter, unburdened, and free. In the way of meditation, this abandoning of things occurs in stages, step by step.
We may go through these initial stages quickly if we wish, but we must be very careful if we do. Sometimes when we pass through the initial steps too quickly, we find the preparatory work has not been completed. It is like trying to build a house on a very weak and rushed foundation. The structure goes up very quickly, but it comes down very quickly as well!
So it is wise to spend a lot of time on the foundation and the first stories as well, building the groundwork well, strong and firm. Then when we proceed to the higher storey, the blissful states of meditation are stable and firm.
How I do it
A Tribute to Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso
In the way I teach meditation, I like to begin at the very simple stage of giving up the baggage of past and future.
Sometimes we may think that this is such an easy thing to do that it is too basic. However, if we give it our full effort, not running ahead to the higher stages of meditation until we have properly reached the first goal of sustained attention on the present moment, then we find later on that we have established a very strong foundation on which to build the higher stages.
Abandoning the past means not even thinking about work, family, commitments, responsibilities, or history, the good or bad times we had as a child... We abandon all past experiences by showing no interest in them at all. We become someone who has no history during the time we meditate.
We do not think about where we are from, where we were born, who our parents were, or what our upbringing was like. All of that history is renounced in meditation. In this way, everyone here on retreat becomes equal, just meditators.
It becomes unimportant how many years we have been meditating, whether we are an old hand or a beginner. If we abandon all that history then we are equal and free. We are freeing ourselves of concerns, perceptions, and thoughts that limit us and stop us from developing the peace born of letting go.
So we finally let go of every part of our history, even the history of what has happened to us so far on this retreat, even the memory of what happened to us just a moment ago! In this way, we carry no burden from the past into the present.
Whatever has just happened, we are no longer interested in it, so we let it go. We do not allow the past to reverberate in our mind. More
Shaolin monk demonstrates pain tolerance by breaking bricks with his head using a sledgehammer, indicating that most of us live nowhere near our human potential (Reuters).
Ahmet gave up the trappings of suburbia for the good life.
He's the ordinary north London boy who became a Chinese warrior monk. And his story is as astonishing as it is inspiring.
Matthew Ahmet is 20 and he's hard, very hard. His head is shaved, and his body bears the ravages of a violent life. A mark on his forehead shows where a metal bar came crashing down on his skull. His forearms have been sliced repeatedly by razor-sharp knives, and his left arm has a "punishment" burn from boiling water.
So when he sits down, flashes a beautiful smile and talks about spreading happiness and peace, it comes as a great surprise. Matthew left his home in Enfield, north London, at the age of 17 to become a Shaolin Buddhist monk in China. In doing so, he renounced all the worldly belongings that are the staple diet of teenage life and entered upon a grueling regime of training, sacrifice, and punishment. Each mark on his body bears testament to this new and extraordinary life. Ahmet says:
Publicity poster for Ahmet's Shaolin show
"Recently, I went to visit an old schoolfriend of mine, who is at Manchester University. I met him at the digs he shares with his friends and I was stunned. There were dirty clothes everywhere, unwashed dishes and belongings just thrown around. In China, I wash my own robes in a bucket of cold water, which I also use to bathe in. I sleep on a bunk bed with no mattress, lying directly on a plank of wood. Everything in my new life is so neat and disciplined that I can't imagine being a typical student now."
Does this earnest young man, who looks like a feral youth but who is in fact gentle and thoughtful, miss anything about his "old life"? He says with a brilliant smile, "Hot showers. When I do go home, I love the luxury of being able to have hot water running over my body." More
Chi Gung at Vivekavana
Solitude Grove, Penang, Malaysia, June, 2011
Ajahn [Thai teaching monk] Suthep teaches Qi Gong as a standing, fluid, meditative series of movements designed to balance the body and bring the mind back to serenity.Qi (chi or prana or breath/spiritus) Gong (work) is a Chinese system of physical exercises and breath control related to Tai Chi. (Research)
Shaolin monks (annenbergfoundation.org)
Of course, as Americans true to stereotype we say, "Serenity shamenity.Give me some action!" So it is for the sake of engaging the body and mind from where they are NOW to where we wish them to be, for the benefit of ourselves and others, that we present the following training video. Let's kick some @ss, which nevertheless entails working with subtle energy (chi/prana):
Would-be students sincerely seeking to learn Chinese martial arts are invited to come to an authentic martial arts academy in Si Ping, Northern China, for Shao lin, Wudang Kung fu, Tai chi chuan, or slow Qi Gong for health. The academy hosts male and female students 6 and older with or without martial arts experience.(Shaolins.com)
(DM) See Minute 8:55 for discussion of psychic children, Qi Gong, Taoism...When seeking enlightenment, raising the DNA's vibration or activatingthe body's electromagnetic Merkaba may help (lightactive.org). See also Minute 25:07 for teaching blind to seewith inner eye.
The Annenberg Space for Photography presents No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World-- a group show about the wonder of culture and the plight of indigenous people throughout the world.
The exhibit is guest curated by esteemed anthropologist, author, and photographer Wade Davis.No Strangers explores the ways cultures express a shared humanity and navigate the circle of life. It poses a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive?
When the people of the world answer this question, they do so in 7,000 unique voices. Tragically, half of these may be silenced within a generation or two. At risk is our human legacy, a vast archive of knowledge and expertise. More
Seated L-R: Randy Olson, Melissa Farlow, Caroline
Bennett, Chris Rainier, Angela Fisher, Chris Johns (WATER), Carol Beckwith, Aaron Huey, Susan Anderson (Beauty CULTure),
Gerd Ludwig (POYi), Barbara Davidson (POYi The Year), Genaro Molina, Laurence Ho (L8s Ang3les).
China is plunged into strife as feuding warlords try to expand their power by warring over neighboring lands. Fueled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolin's Zen masters when he beats one of them in a duel.
When his family is wiped out by a rival warlord, Hao is forced to take refuge with the Buddhist monks. As the civil unrest spreads and the people suffer, Hao and the Shaolin masters are forced to take a fiery stand against the evil warlords. They launch a daring plan of rescue and escape.
Not since the legendary kung fu film "Shaolin Temple" stormed the world in the 1970's has a movie been given permission to film in the actual Shaolin Temple of legend. The honor was bestowed on this lavish modern production, starring Andy Lau and Jackie Chan. This movie is one of Asia's most eagerly anticipated film events.
"The Real Shaolin" a moving, poetic, action-packed documentary feature about two Chinese and two Westerners who journey to China's Shaolin Temple inspired by the legends portrayed in kung fu movies with Bruce Lee and Jet Li. In the course of excruciating martial arts training, their fantasies to become kung fu warriors collide with harsh reality. Shaolin Temple is the ultimate test for martial artists from all over the world. Will they achieve their goal of living the Shaolin dream?
TORONTO (Reuters) -- They went to kick butt and gain enlightenment, but what the men in the new documentary "Real Shaolin" found in China was loneliness, pain, bad food, and angry kung fu teachers.
For aspiring martial artists, movies about kung fu fighting are the stuff of which screen legends are made. The stars' names are well-known: Bruce Lee, Jet Li, and Jackie Chan. But the reality, as told in "Real Shaolin," which debuts at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, has little to do with flying fists and more with hard work.
"The difference between movies and the reality I try to show is that in the movies when they experience hardship, it's romanticized," director Alexander Sebastien Lee told Reuters. "In China if you go to a master and tell them I want to learn to beat someone up and kill somebody they'll tell you to go somewhere else," he added.
"Real Shaolin" follows two Chinese and two Westerners who journey to the Shaolin Temple in central Henan Province, inspired by the mythical feats from film heroes Li and others. Glorified images of warrior-monks effortlessly breaking spears with their throats and withstanding brutal body blows inspire many to learn the deadly art form at its birthplace.
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A Korean-American, Lee decided to make his documentary after venturing to Shaolin to see if he could survive the excruciating training. Lee, 29, a black-belt in tae kwon do and a first-time director who wrote, produced, and shot the film, found something else.
Since hardly anyone actually studies kung fu at the Shaolin Temple (it is mostly a tourist attraction now after surviving 1,500 years of wars and revolutions), Lee follows the four students in the nearby rural city of Dengfeng, dubbed "Kung Fu City" for its 40,000 students and 100 martial arts academies.
He spent about 18 months filming two Chinese, Yuan Peng and Zhu Hao Shan, American Orion Lee, and Frenchman Eric Guillou, as they spent 8 to 10 hours-a-day kicking, punching, stretching, and just as importantly, praying and meditating.
But their initial excitement and dreams -- Eric wants to become the first non-Chinese Shaolin monk -- are tempered with squalid living conditions, isolation, and not always training with strong rivals but with children. "I was almost mystified by the kung fu warriors, by the Shaolin monks, training in the mountains and being in this beautiful temple where people have dedicated their entire lives to the pursuit of kung fu and Buddhism," said Orion Lee, a blond-haired and blue-eyed man from Connecticut, who was just 19-years-old when the documentary was filmed. "The lesson I learned was really to appreciate everything you have and everything that you stand to lose."
For the two Chinese subjects, one 9-year-old Yuan Peng who was abandoned by his parents at the Shaolin Temple, their path is equally trying but it can transform their lives.
Martial artists in China can hope to escape poverty with a career as a policeman, soldier, kung fu coach or bodyguard -- and if they're really lucky, a chance to work in the movies.
"The Real Shaolin" documentary director Alexander Sebastien Lee poses in this undated handout photo (Bull in a China Shop Productions/Handout/Reuters).
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Kung Fu is an American action-adventure martial arts western drama television series starring David Carradine (as the grown up "Grasshopper"). The series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine.
The character is a Shaolin Buddhist monk who travels through the American Old West, armed only with his Buddhist spiritual training and his skill in martial arts, as he seeks Danny Caine, his half-brother.
Such a meditator gains these states of inner bliss almost automatically [almost effortlessly]. What the Buddha is saying is that the major cause for attaining deep meditation and reaching these powerful states is the willingness to abandon, to let go, and to renounce [nonclinging, inner letting go].
