The first hanzi/character for ShiFu Shi/"师" has the meaning of someone who is a teacher or adviser like a teacher you address in school which in Chinese is LaoShi/老师 or "old teacher." The "Fu" in "ShiFu" seems to have two different possible meanings depending on which hanzi/character you interpret the word to have.
Should -meaning: is, doing this, well-seen inside the practice, with a precedent from advanced practitioners or shifus in this site- I ask my shifu about my interest on learning (guidedly) about those topics? It is usually expected that a student asks those questions to a shifu or should wait for the shifu to tell that to the student?
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I have a question concerning the way we greet our shifu in the beginning and end of our lessons. I was wondering what the explanation is and if I'm saying the right things to our Shifu.
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Shifu sometimes told me to follow tai chi classes as well, as it would make my movements more fluid. An opportunity to train tai chi with a good, proper trainer came up, and I took it. I learned a lot from that, which I incorporated into my main training as well, but that nagging feeling of something essential missing never went away.
Meaning of the Chinese Sifu? (Shifu) I ask because it is commonly regarded as having the exact sense of Sensei, of Master, or Teacher, but these don't convey the full meaning. Sensei, for instance, shares the same characters as the ...