静Ben Lucas
Internal Power
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內力Internal Power
True power arises from stillness.
Internal Zen martial arts from a rare Shaolin lineage. And Zen for daily life, road-tested on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs.
Lineage
Training one-on-one with Shifu Wu Nanfang, 31st-generation lineage holder of Gulun Kung Fu. The first Westerner he's taught this way.
Proving ground
Six years in Magic Circle law and at Goldman Sachs, where the daily-life methods were first tested.
Teaching
ASICS EMEA. Shaolin Temple Europe, at the invitation of Shi Heng Yi. Retreats across Europe, Asia and South America.
Clients
A former global head of debt banking at UBS, a top-100 poker player, a former McKinsey partner who coaches the CEO of Coca-Cola, world-class musicians and the COO of a stock exchange.
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01 FOR THOSE WHO
This is for you if you
01Want mastery deeper than conventional success — without giving up the success.
02Value peace and performance, and refuse to trade one for the other.
03Are ready to put a practice at the non-negotiable centre of your life.
04Would rather take disciplined action than talk about it.
It also helps if you have a cheeky sense of humour and don't take yourself too seriously. I'm a rascal at heart.
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02 THE SHORT VERSION
Who's talking
A fat, addicted, stiff lawyer in chronic pain, trapped in the heart of the matrix at Goldman Sachs. That was me.
I now live in the Chinese mountains, train six hours a day with a lineage holder, and spend the rest of the day writing and coaching a handful of brilliant individuals.
If you feel yourself getting slowly sucked into the swamp of life and refuse to let your soul be gobbled up, we should talk.
“As an executive coach myself, I've developed a healthy scepticism of people who call themselves coaches. But Ben is the best coach I've ever had — and a lot more. I set ambitious goals that I thought would take two years to reach. We hit most of them in three months.”
Rens van den Broek · Partner at gsSMART
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03 THREE DOORS
Where to begin
Mastery Coaching
Six months · one to one
For leaders who know their presence causes big positive ripples, who want a brilliant mind under cool discipline, and who mean to make something of this one opportunity on earth.
Read more →
Gulun Kung Fu
Internal Shaolin · small group
My online school for systematically building a deep practice of internal Shaolin arts. Your daily all-in-one practice for mind and body.
The school →
Zen Digital Makeover
The book
Transform your devices from casinos into Zen temples. Reclaim your attention from the screens.
The book →
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Fancy a chat?
A 30-minute call. No pitch.
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04 ELSEWHERE
Other things
01My story — my cliché journey from Goldman Sachs to Shaolin Temple.
02Offerings — corporate work, retreats and residencies.
03Writing — on my master's Zen teachings, AI and my weird little life.
04Tea at Dusk — an interview with me, if you'd rather listen than read.
05ben@benlucas.co — so far I've been successful enough at avoiding fame that I have space to answer your emails.