We, as board members, volunteers and friends on behalf of the Shaolin Chan Foundation (SCF) and grandmaster Shifu DeRu (Shawn X. Liu), would like to invite you join our endeavor to propagate “Life wisdom in Chan (Zen) Wu culture with great compassion".
Shaolin Chan Foundation (SCF), also known as the Shaolin World Foundation, a 501(c)(3) International Non-Profit Organization, aims to carry forward and promote the ancient Shaolin Chan (Zen) Buddhist philosophy & spread the wisdom of Chan culture, peace and compassion worldwide. Under the leadership of the SCF Chairman, the Shaolin 31st generation Grandmaster Shifu DeRu, the SCF delivers a unique experience, inspiring and empowering each individual to unveil their greatest potential through Zen freedom of the body and the mind.
In the last three decades, Shifu DeRu and his team have led thousands of Zen arts and martial arts demonstrations, shows, retreats, camps, conférences, seminars, speeches, and lectures in over 100 cities and to over 2 million people across the globe.
These events have allowed people with various backgrounds, from CEOs, military and police personnel to those with high stress and health issues, to experience the benefits of Zen living in coherence with quantum communication and Zen consciousness – a happy and healthy life by being in resonance with the universe consciousness. Shi DeRu with his team has sponsored and hosted over 40 Asian and International Cultural Festivals and Kung Fu events in the United States since 1989.
Grandmaster DeRu along with his team has provided the value of an estimated of over $5 million in financial aid, quality education and Qi and nutrition treatment services to countless needy children, amateur sports teams, schools, parents, patients and charity organizations such as Red Cross and St. Jude Hospital. With the support of Shi DeRu and his SCF team, many students in the US have had the opportunity to learn Chinese, Zen meditation, nutrition, natural healing, health wellness training and character based leadership education.
Some were able to attend college through DeRu’s foundation scholarships, and others had the opportunity to enhance their Zen, Tai Chi and Kung Fu studies in China through multicultural exchange programs. The foundation has also provided financial support to several Chinese primary and secondary school students in poverty-stricken areas of Henan and Sichuan.
Following the devastation left by hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Shi DeRu and his team were part of the humanitarian relief efforts and provided hundreds of free treatments, seminars and classes for anxiety and high stress hurricane victims.
Shi DeRu with his team has provided Zen-Tai Gong, Tai Chi and nutrition therapies to many children with autism and dozens of advanced stage cancer patients, often those who could no longer find treatments at hospitals and had been told by physicians to have a few weeks to a few months to live,
With the aid of these therapies, ninety percent of the students and patients with cancer extended their life expectancy from 4 years to more than 10 years Additionally, many students with autism, phobias, depression, high blood pressure, lower back pain, shortness of breath, cervical scoliosis, arthritis, and cardiovascular disease have significantly changed their lives and have experienced reduced symptoms or have fully recovered.
As the SCF chairman, Shifu DeRu has mentored many students. Under his tutelage, these students developed grit, discipline and perseverance and eventually went on to achieve their personal goals, whether it was a healthier lifestyle or attaining a higher level of performance in academics, athletics or business. Some of his notable students went on to attend prestigious schools, such as Harvard University, Duke University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, the University of California at Berkeley, and West Point.
To experience the Shaolin Buddhist meditation or Zen healing is to see happiness and to see that all things come from one source of the conscious universe. When we see that we are all one and the same, that our life is a Chan life, we can begin to see and live the open compassionate wisdom of life.
We hope you will actively participate in and support the Shaolin Chan Foundation so we can jointly build an international Chan (Zen) Culture Information Platform to actively promote and spread Chan culture with virtue and wisdom.
Shaolin Chan Foundation Tel: 1-770-286-9808, http://www.shaolinchan-foundation.org/