LI SHIFU

30th Generation Long Men, 23rd Generation Chun Yang 

Clarifications:
1) Daoist sects are not extreme sects but religious groups of teachers, disciples and monks dedicated to the pacific cultivation of the Self, teaching Daoist Arts, helping heal the ill and guide people in their spiritual journeys.
2) A renunciant monk is a person that gives up his/her family and their common life to live a monastic life following the precepts of the Dao. 

Li Song Feng (Li Shifu), 30th Generation Long Men (Dragon Gate Daoist Sect of the Wudang Mountains), 23th Generation Chun Yang (Pure Yang Daoist Sect). High Daoist Priest of both sects. Master of Jing Chan Ceremonies. Master and Abbot of the Five Immortals Temple, White Horse Mountain, Wudang, China. Renunciant monk, Healer and Gong Fu (Kung Fu) Master. 

Li Song Feng was born in 1964, in Henan Province, Shang Qiu, China. At the age of 12 he began to study the external martial arts of Shaolin, the internal martial arts of the Wudang Mountains as well as the classical scriptures of Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity and Islam. He traveled to many high mountains of China in order to seek out grandmasters. He was accepted as a disciple by many masters and therefore has received many religious names which are not to be mention publicly. At the beginning of 1991, he became officially a devotee to Taoism or follower of the Tao. In 1996, he left his homeland and officially became a renunciant in the Mountains of Wudang, where he found his own path in Hubei province, White Horse Mountain. In very harsh conditions, he experienced a lot of suffering and hardships, studied Wudang Internal Alchemy cultivation practices form his masters and received the transmissions of Taoist Medicine and Taoist talismans, rituals and incantations and other Taoist Arts. In 2000, he became the Abbot of the Five Immortals Temple.

"I do not want to advertise myself, I am only a beggar. Being alive, I am already very grateful to the Gods. I look indifferently at fame, wealth, honors and glory. Out of 7 billion people in the entire world how many people could one have a destiny to meet with? This certainly must be predestined relationship as vast as the heavens. If students learn the imparted content well, apply it well, and are capable of helping other people I am already utterly happy"- Li Shifu.

Li Shifu offers a unique opportunity for foreigners: learn about Daoism and its arts, learn about yourself from the hand of a genuine master, in a real Daoist Temple. 

"Having a live and sincere great master like Li Shifu is a true treasure and a privilege for those of us that have had the chance to know him and be guided in the art of living in pure consciousness and cosmic amplitude" - Cheng Ya.

For more information about Li Shifu and the Five Immortals Temple, visit the Temple's website

Photos of Li Shifu and Li Shifu and his students, by Christina Chandler and Rafael Abella.