The International Taoist T’ai Chi
Moy
Lin-shin is best known in the West as the founder of The International Taoist
T’ai Chi Society in Montreal ,
Canada
While
there, he was educated in the beliefs of the Earlier Heaven Wu-chi sect of the
Hua Shan School of Taoism. Then, before the Communist Revolution of 1949, he
decided to relocate to Hong Kong , where he
joined the Yuen Yuen Institute and became a Taoist monk.
The
Yuen Yuen Institute was established in 1950 and is devoted to the study of
Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
Living
in Hong Kong had a great influence on Moy Lin-Shin , because here
he became friends with Sun Dit, another student of Liang Zhi
Peng
This
time he set up home in Canada
However,
in time he concentrated on only teaching the health side of T’ai Chi.
Moy
Lin-shin effectively taught a modified Yang style T’ai Chi Chuan form. This was
in fact a combination of different elements which he named; Taoist T’ai Chi.
He
developed a set of ‘virtues’ that he thought his Taoist T’ai Chi teachers and
students should live by. Sense of Shame
- Honor
- Sacrifice
- Propriety
- Trustworthiness
- Dedication
- Sibling Harmony
- Filial piety
Around
1981, Moy Lin-shin set up a Canadian arm of the Hong Kong-based Fung Loy Kok
Institute of Taoism. This became the spiritual aspect of the Taoist T’ai Chi
Society.
Nearly
a decade later in 1990, The International Taoist T’ai
Chi Society was created to showcase his knowledge of the Taoist roots of T’ai
Chi and promote greater appreciation of Eastern and Western traditions.
Although
he had his critics, there’s no doubting Moy Lin-shin has a genuine claim to
being a true T’ai Chi innovator, teacher and visionary for introducing
thousands of people worldwide to T’ai Chi.
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