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Are you referring to what some call: "Saam Bai Fut" (Three prayers to Buddha)?

That is not the same as the cultivating qi via Taoist/Buddhist qigong practices.

Food and drink also gives us qi, but that is still not the same as deliberate/sustained cultivation.

LSWCTN1, interesting ideas. I think our American cousins will LOL if we propose that "Siu Nim Tau" = Shaolin Do (Just do a search on these forums). ;)

I think the query about the literacy of...

Phil, we're dinosaurs. The way of the future is "lim" due to the growth in lazy sounds (lahn yum).

Even with the martial context it may mean nothing; you really need to know that it is Wing Chun Kuen's first form and that all the other forms "develop" on the idea(s) in the first form.

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YY, forget about the "head". Nim Tau/Lim Tau (same thing) is the compound word - you don't separate it. So the translation is little "something", but what is that "something"?

It could be thought,...