Master Liu ChengDe is a kind Master with devastating skills proved many times in real life challenges.

This day he showed his kindness to a keen student. He showed it by doing two rare and extraordinary things.

One – he took us indoors to his studio in downtown Jinan.

Two – he showed us a Qi Gong set that he personally uses, but rarely teaches.

It may have been because I was new to the group, but not new to the lineage. I had come to him after experiencing a lesser Master, showing a sincere desire to learn the truth of Internal.

The set we learned is cut-to-the-bones simple, but almost impossible to perform correctly, never mind to integrate it into your way of being. But that is what is required. And I do like a challenge.

He began simply enough by demonstrating a moving posture. As Master Liu speaks Shandongese we had a translator working with the group.

The first movement, as with most of them, was stationary but multi-part.

Simple to learn. As I was to experience later, most difficult to do correctly.

The translator was struggling. Qi Gong, Taiji and Internal all have specific words used to describe what is going on. Like a doctor or a mechanic you have to know the lingo.

This young man apparently did not know well enough, so for the sake of clarity, he was replaced with an older student, proficient in English, Shandongese, and Internal. A tall order.

As we worked through the set a feeling of warmth came over me, not just from the movement of Qi, but also from the obvious caring that was being shown. Here was a Master who cared more for the progress of his students than he did for money. Someone to admire.

Master Liu had demonstrated his power and his Taiji skill several times already when he stopped and said we should come closer to see what he was doing.

He raised his hand and showed us a plump hand full of blood and Qi, but an ordinary hand otherwise.

Then without preamble his hand became swollen and red all over. It was fascinating to see this flush and plumpness swelling into his hand.

Willful Qi movement he said. Something any Qi Gong Master should be capable of.

Maybe that was true, but he was the first teacher of Qi Gong I had met over my many years of study, who could actually control his Qi well enough to do it.