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About The Eight Immortals' Revolving Sword Of Pure Yang
About the Author Dr. Wu Baolin is a senior master of Daoist taijiquan, Chinese medicine, and qi cultivation. Born in China, he now heals and teaches in Santa Monica, widely recognized as an authority in Chinese medicine and the martial arts. He is also the author The Soul of Taiji: Zhang Sanfeng-Wu Baolin Taijiquan (Three Pines Press, 2020), and various other works on qigong, longevity, and health. For more, see https://beijingchinesemedicalcenter.com/ Product Description This is the story of Master Wu and the esoteric sword practice he learned at the White Cloud Monastery in Beijing. It opens this practice to the outside world for the first time, explaining its history, theory, cosmology, and practice in great detail. In traditional Chinese fashion, Master Wu guides the reader through the ins and outs of the history, folklore, and technique of this sword practice, focusing especially on the figures of the Eight Immortals and explaining their legends, practices, and feats in great detail. Along the way, he highlights the hidden jewels of training with insightful commentaries on various parables, thereby to bring out the essence of Dao. He succeeds masterfully at braiding together his unique training history and deep Daoist insights with treasured traditional stories, creating a thrilling account and setting a palpable example of Daoism’s best kept inner secrets as brought to life in actual experiences today. Review In the fashion of Wile T i Chi Touchstones, Wu book is an exceptional primary source for a martial lineage, not easily found in English. Like unsheathing a sword, the reader gradually discovers Wu exciting autobiography, the story of his precious sword, and the fantastic account of the Eight Immortals for whom the style is named. It the steel memory. The practice instructions offer clear images and detailed explanations for the patient student. If you cannot learn Eight Immortals Revolving Sword from Wu, let this book be your instructor. It gives a rich context and a detailed practice in one volume. --Bede Benjamin Bidlack, Boston College and Still Mountain Tai Chi CenterThis remarkable book transcends the boundaries of genre more completely than any other work of its type with which I am familiar. It is, indeed, a martial arts manual, in the final third of the text supplying a meticulously detailed description, with felicitous accompanying illustrations, of the sequence of movements and postures that comprise the ancient and esoteric eight immortals revolving sword form. But while most manuals of this type merely gesture toward the philosophical and religious context within which such martial exercises evolved historically, the first two-thirds of Wu book offers an extended and fascinating account of the Daoist world view that gives this sword form its special meaning. In many ways, this book serves for its readers as much as an introduction to Daoism as it is an instruction in the way of the sword. Basic Daoist concepts and practices are carefully elucidated and the core of the text supplies a narrative framework for this discussion, briefly telling the stories of each of the immortals (among them, distinguished scholars and swordsmen, but also a cross dresser and a child bride!) Dr. Wu book does a splendid job of exposing the essential continuity among the martial arts, Daoist religious practice and Chinese traditional medicine. It is a book that will be of great interest and value, not only to martial artists, but also to students and scholars of religion, as well is to readers with a more general interest in Chinese culture and mythology. --Michael Raposa, Lehigh UniversityIn no uncertain terms, Dr. Wu divulges information of Daoist ancestry and their creation of an exceptional relic, a magical sword infused with the spirit of a Daoist immortal. These amazing, universal tales of the spiritual power that lies within all of us are filled with Daoist wisdom, as well as the thrilling techni
