Is it Taoism or Daoism? Chi Kung or Qi Gong? Master Gu explains

Turning Chinese characters into roman letters is no easy task. Numerous attempts over the centuries have left us with a confusing mix of spellings. Luckily Master Gu is here to give us a pronunciation lesson.. Is it Taoism or Daoism? Qi Gong or Chi Kung?
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[TimMer]

The amount of lightness, humor and not taking the ego too seriously is the main thing that attracted me to Daoism. Thank you for this video, brightened up my day! :)

[ruedelta]

Master Gu is very kind, he's pouring you tea and taking great care to emphasize the errors in your pronunciation. Truly a great teacher!

[DenisShch]

Finally, this point has been made. It always annoyed me how in English 'Tao' was more common than 'Dao'.

[clinton]

Seeing the tone marks on the vowels at the end helped. Romanization without them is almost pointless if you want good pronunciation.

[SeanStark_]

Master Gu is very well spoken in English

[longshifuabbadumaine]

Master Gu is terrific, he is the inspiration and guide for our work at Daoist Mission Mid-America

[umerahmujahid]

The two of you together are absolutely adorable... I love the videos and mostly watch them to ad some laughter/smiles to me day, thank you!🙏🏽

[wangocopperboom]

This clears up so much. In my Asian Art History class the professor, who is Chinese, helped soooo much with pronunciation and she made sure we knew about T vs D in regard to Daoism (she also had us read the Tao of Pooh ❤️). The following year I took a Tai Chi class by an American professor...who taught the class that 'Chi' as it is in 'Tai Chi' meant breath 😬 Both professors taught similar things, but there were inconsistencies that this video has helped clear up (and obviously everything the Art History professor said in terms of language and pronunciation was most accurate 😂), so thank you!

[jessiehorne]

Thank You for this informative and energetic lesson George and Master Gu. 😌☯️

[longshifuabbadumaine]

Dear Shifu Gu and Didi George, this is well done and appreciated. A kind tip to you, darling George, your eagerness and enthusiasm are quite genuine, we all feel that.
One huge lesson is for you to simply breathe, breathe and release the fund of doubt, nervousness and scattered energy that some may view as an animating excitement.
Indeed, that may be the actual truth of the matter.
Just remember to breathe like Shifu Gu, deep, cleansing empowering breathes.
Observe brother, how in the moment Shifu is, composed, focused, Completely at ease and ready.
Copy his calm, clarity and humor..
breathe and relax.
You're doing an admirable job in producing these engaging and information rich videos.

Be well, be safe
my coaches and I share this with appreciation and affection.

Longshifu Abba DuMaine and Coaches at Daoist Mission Mid-America

[blu_astra]

At the moment I'm learning both chinese and taiji so this was super useful! Thanks George and Master Gu

[perrypelican]

Excellent great wow. These are such fantastic videos because they are clear, accurate and fun to watch.
George, Never stop making these videos. "Gu and you" are a good team.

[robertschreckenbach]

Absolutely KNOWLEDGEABLE video George!! Thank you so much for teaching us these Techniques!! Namaste my friend, from Tennessee, U.S.!!!

[szelengtan]

George, your pronunciation at the end is perfect. You're such a good student of Daoism and of life. Thank you and Master Gu for enlightening us through this platform. Please keep up the great work!!

[lynnmckenna]

Best video ever! For so long, I have wanted to know how to correctly pronounce each of these words! I am psyched that I can practice now with Master Gu! Excellent!!!!

[RichPlusHappy]

All of your videos make me feel better. Thanks George ✋

[moniquecash]

The number of times people try to argue with me that I'm saying it wrong has led me to this video. Now I have some sense of reassurance.

[lenwenzel]

Lovely to have clear examples of pronunciation, thank you Master Gu, and thank you George.

[banjo]

I'm so happy so have found your channel. I binged through so many of your videos by now since I'm very curious to educate myself in Daoism. Your videos help alot to understand it better. And Master Gu is such a well spoken and spirited man it's a blessing to have someone like him here on YouTube to give his native expertise on this subject.

[luzlabajos]

Who would've known after many months following your videos, one day I'd decide to learn chinese and end up using on of your videos to work in "Zh", "Ch", "Q" and "j" pronunciation in pinyin hahahaha. That "Zhuangzi" recopilation made me remember the "penguin" moment with Benedict Cumberbatch hahahahahahaha. Great content as always!! :)