Tuesday, March 17, 2020

How is qigong different than acupuncture? A study in Nui Gung training of Sifu Share K. Lew as Shen Kung

http://www.musclesofiron.com/articles/sifu-share-k-lew/

Sifu Share K. Lew. He had visited my home town of Long Island, as he does every year, to teach a workshop in Nui Gung (internal energy cultivation) from his system, Tao Ahn Pai (Taoist Elixir School).

http://shaolinlomita.com/masters/grand-master-share-k-lew/

 After an apprenticeship of several years of menial work, he was accepted, initiated, and taught a full range of Taoist skills, including exercises for health and longevity such as internal chi gung (which Sifu prefers to call by its older title, Nui Gung), Kung Fu, herbal medicine, Gee Liao (the ability to project ones chi), Tui Na massage, and his specialty: thorough and rapid healing of tendons, joints, muscles, and bones, as well as injuries caused by trauma. His monastery style, Tao Ahn Pai (Taoist Elixir Style) is traced in unbroken lineage back over 1,300 years to its founder, Lui Don Bin, one of the eight Taoist immortals.
 in 1970, broke with tradition and became the first to openly teach the internal cultivation (Chi Kung) to non-Chinese. In that year, he and the late Khiegh Dhigh, a television actor and I Ching scholar, formed the Taoist Sanctuary in Los Angeles, the first Taoist religious organization founded in the United States to receive federal status as a church. During this time, he switched from teaching Choy Li Fut and began to teach Tao Ahn Pai kung fu which he had learned in the monastery.
In 1979, Shifu Lew moved to San Diego, seeing people for health appointments, teaching small or private classes, and traveling to teach students in workshops around the United States, in places like New York, Florida, Philadelphia, Esalen, Honolulu, San Francisco, Ojai, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Florida, Burbank, Philadelphia, New York, as well as Tokyo, Japan and Tijuana, Mexico.
 Nei Kung Chi Liao-Tao Internal Energy Diagnosis & Healing (Medical Chi Kung – Acupuncture Without Needles)

http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/tao_heal/medchikung.html
  The Shen practices not only provide keys to self empowerment and balancing of all the various organs and meridians, but also offers a means of direct cognition of universal knowledge. The Tai Chi Tu/Ba Gua principles of harmonizing, regenerating and healing the mind/body are thereby brought to life through daily experience.
Shen Kung expands both the inner and outer vision enabling one to "see" rather than to look. For me, one of the secret keys to knowing anything is to use the Tai Chi Tu principle.
http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/martarts/lew3.html

 He teaches the Tao Ahn Pai Shen from time to time at Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California. The Shen are twelve nui gung exercises whose primary purpose is self-healing. These rare exercises also develop better concentration, increased visual and auditory acuity and enhance sensitivity to one's self and others. Anyone can learn these gentle meditative exercises.
http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/tao_heal/neichikung2.html

  The so called four levels of chi cultivation include Jing Kung, Chi Kung, Nei Kung and Shen Kung.
 The Shen exercises, being an advanced form, are comprised of six standing methods and six seated methods, including the Earth Meditation or "quiet sitting," to harmonize and balance the mindbody through the 8 extra or psychic meridians. These meridians are the reservoirs and deeper energy flows carrying the jing chi-ancestral energy, giving rise to and nourishing the 12 organ meridians.
http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/tao_heal/neichikung3.html

 In the more advanced methods of balancing the 8 Psychic Meridians or reservoirs of the life force, more profound and deeper effects are usually noticed by both the giver and receiver through this yin-yang polarity connection.
http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/tao_heal/bydchi1.html

 The general older term for ch'i gung is nei kung (in Mandarin) or nui gung (in Cantonese).
http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/tao_heal/bydchi21.html

 The tan tiens comprise an important part of the overall anatomical structure of the body which is not utilized by acupuncture. They are not used partially because of the differing frequencies, and partially because the regions are in the center of the body far too deep to be activated by needles. That is the reason tan tiens are often not even mentioned in acupuncture texts.
 The process continues with the shen being refined into the shu—"the emptiness."
 https://www.shenkungfu.com/choylayfut.htm

 Qigong with Share K. Lew.
 Ademas el fue alumno de muchos años de Gran Master Share K. Lew, el sobrino de Lau Bun quien ademas fue monje en el monasterio Wong Lung Kwan en la montaña Luo Fo en Guanzhou. De aqui viene mucho de nuestro Chi Kung. La influencia de Fut San Hung Sing Choy Lay Fut es fuerte y tenemos formas, tecnicas y practicas de ese lineaje
https://www.usadojo.com/share-k-lew/
 Share K. Lew lived and studied at Wong Lung Kwan for 13 years. He left the monastery in 1948, shortly before the Communist revolution, and moved to the United States, living in San Francisco. There he remained living and working within the Chinese community for several years studying Kung Fu with his Master Lew Ben, the 6th Grandmaster of the Hung Sing style of Choy Li Fut.
 Grandmaster Share K. Lew passed away on July 15, 2012 at 94 years old.
http://taoistinstitute.com/about/the-core-system/
 Learn Kung Fu in the Monk Fist Style or Internal Chinese Martial Arts Combat.Even the original Chinese arts over time, due to many historical events, lost their internal (qi focused) aspects, their philosophical relevance, and eventually their combative parts were diluted. The most advanced aspects, the hidden Dim Mak (Dim Muk) and Poison Hand, along with the advanced qigong which supported these practices, also were de-emphasized and hidden.
 https://www.taoahnpai.com/

 I've seen it spelled both as Tao Ahn Pai and Tao Tan Pai.

Back when I studied in the 70's it was Tao Tan Pai. As I recall the martial system was called Tao Ga.
 Tao Tan Pai is the style that Sifu Share Lew learned while living at the Yellow Dragon Taoist Monastary. thread

In between time, Tao Ahn Pai, as I understand it, is the Toisan pronunciation of Taoist Elixir Style from the Yellow Dragon Monastery in Luo fa Shan. Tao Tan Pai is the cantonese pronunciation, if I'm not mistaken.
 Video of the training

Wow - so "Flying Phoenix qigong" originates from this lineage! fascinating

the late Master and Taoist priest Share K. Lew of the Tao Tan Pai (Taoist Elixir Method) Kung Fu,
OH so that's just one of his teachers...

As the youtube.com caption explains, this demo by John Fey was given in 1988 at Taoist priest Share K. Lew's* 70th birthday celebration. John Fey is an excellent instructor of Chen style Tai Chi Chuan, Pa-Kua Chuan, Northern Shaolin, and other arts such as Frolic of the Five Animals. In 1985-86, I learned the first section-and-a-half of the Chen style Old Frame Form from Sifu Fey, and also a qigong exercise known as "Silk-weaver's Exercise."
*Master Share K. Lew teaches Tan Tan Pai (Taoist Elixir Method) Kung-fu, a southern Taoist/Buddhist school of martial, healing, and spiritual arts with origins in the Tang Dynasty that is attributed to the legendary Taoist saint, Lu Tung Pin. Master Lew, I believe, is one of the only two temple-trained, fully ordained Taoist priests residing in America--the other one being Master Kuan Sai Hung of the Huashan sect (whose novelized biography called "The Wandering Taoist" was written by his student Deng Ming Dao (Mark Ong) and published in the early 1980's). [These two eminent Taoists had a warm and cordial meeting in the late 1980's. Master Lew told me then how impressed he was at Master Kuan's perfectly youthful looks at age 63, and the fact that he spoke six languages, numerous Chinese dialects, including Master Lew's village dialect from Toishan!] From 1974 until 1983, I studied Tan Tan Pai martial and healing arts under three of Sifu Lew's senior students--Sifus John Davidson, Carl Totton, and Bill Helm. I later received vital corrections from Master Lew on the Tai Chi Ruler art that I had learned from John Davidson. To this day, I regularly practice the Tao Tan Pai five animal forms--tiger, dragon, snake, crane, and monkey--and have special affinity for the snake, crane and monkey forms. Tao Tan Pai also has interesting weapons forms besides the classical Chinese weapons such as: sawhorse, hoe, chopsticks (or daggers), and cane (or umbrella) sets. By Master Lew's edict, no videotape or film recordings of any Tao Tan Pai forms have ever been published. (So don't expect to see any Tao Tan Pai forms on Youtube anytime soon!)

In March of 1988, family, friends and students of Taoist Master Share K. Lew gathered to celebrate his 70th birthday. As a special tribute to Master Lew, Sifu John Bright-Fey performed the rare Qigong routine known as The Five Animal Frolics of Hua T'o - video


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