Eyesight is a very important element in Martial Arts. Sight in any kind of WU
SHU, especially in DIAN XUE, is of utmost importance. The main thing in
the common WU SHU is the mobility of eyes, it is comparatively easy to
attain. Besides, eyesight in DIAN XUE must be keen. One must succeed in
making out small objects in darkness. It is impossible to reach such a height
without hard labor. There are two training methods to acquire this skill.
The first method is as follows. Sit quietly without light each day at night. You
must close your eyes, relax and imagine the location of things in your room.
For instance, such and such object is in such and such place and another
object is in such and such place, and so on. Or, otherwise, you can imagine a
certain place in the room and fancy what things are available there. Then,
open your eyes and look. At first you will see nothing. But later on, you will
start to see more and more clearly. Over time you will see in darkness.
The essence of another method is as follows: use a lamp with a paper shade
and gradually decrease brightness of the light until the lamp fully goes out,
you have to distinguish things at that. In practice it is done so: make a shade
of light-green paper and put an oil lamp inside. Over time, change the color of
the paper for darker one and decrease the wick. Paper color is to be changed
from light-green to black and the wick from the size of a date pit to nil. This
method requires more time (compared with the first one) but it is more
convenient for training from methodical point of view.
The above two methods are designed to exercise “outer” GONG FU.
Although you can distinguish things in darkness, you are not able to see small
details yet. It is necessary to make progress, train oneself to acquire the
“inner” GONG FU. For that purpose at dawn, before sunrise, you must go to
an open place, it is still better to climb a hill or mountain. Face the east and
wait for the sunrise. When the sun just starts to appear on the horizon, calm
down breathing, concentrate attention and look right at the sun.
[ Warning:
one may look at the sun only during a few minutes when the sun disk has
just appeared above the line of the horizon; if you look at the risen sun
fixedly, you can lose the sight! ]
Some time later you will feel as if a flow of
hot air goes up to the eye-sockets. At that moment you must close your eyes
and move your eyeballs to the left and to the right 72 times. Make a small
pause, open your eyes and look at the sun again. After it move the eyeballs
again 36 times to the left and 36 times to the right. If you often do it, in a year
you will see even in darkness very well. Having such eyesight plus well-
trained arms, you will succeed in reaching one hundred percent hit.
The above training methods are three steps, or three stages, that make up
GONG FU of the second level.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Blows at Points
After finger training succeeded, one can proceed to exercise blows at points.
It is a combined training which allows to fix in mind acupuncture points and
channels of vital energy and find them at once. It is done in such a way: it is
necessary to take a big log and made a full-scale human dummy. The dummy
should have everything: head, face, arms, legs. Mark location of points with
red paint. Dimensions of the marks should correspond to true dimensions (of
points). Main channels should be marked with a paint of different colors.
When everything is ready, the trainee faces the dummy at a distance of one
CHI (33.3 cm) approximately. Then, it is necessary to think of a point or ask
somebody to name it, immediately concentrate energy at the tip of one or two
fingers and touch this point. If you are sure of having done everything
properly, you can proceed to a next point. It is not easy to do at the beginning,
mistakes can be often made. That’s why it needs everyday training, hundreds
of time during a day. Gradually everything will become all right. This kind of
training is conducted at a light spot in the day-time, so the sight will help
fingers to get necessary spots. If you face an enemy, naturally you can employ
a certain method. But is not a perfect GONG FU yet. If you wish to scale a
higher level of mastery, you have to train yourself according to the above
methods at night in the dark, using your sight. It is a very difficult matter, you
can not get success in a short time. There is also a concealment in it. Face a
wooden dummy in the dark. It is difficult for normal eyes to make out small
points in darkness of the night. Even if your eyes are well-trained, all the
same you see so-so. Well, how in such a case to get right to the point? There
is a special technique for that. You raise your arm, estimate at which height to
locate your finger tip to hit at a selected point and thrust your arm forward.
The finger should be dipped into mortar before training. A white spot appears
where the finger touches the wooden dummy. Have a rest after ten such white
spots (ten blows) and check results. It is necessary to train yourself each day,
in that case you will get success in a year.
There is one more training method – training in a lamp light (at night). You
gradually decrease the brightness of the lamp until it fully extinguishes. It is a
gradual method, convenient in practice, but the time needed for training
extends. If you acquire this GONG FU to perfection, each blow will go home.
In that case it will be no problem for you to encounter one or two enemies.
Even if you are encircled by a group of enemies, you will be able of making
them to lose fighting ability in a jiffy. That is nothing else but the unsurpassed
skill. However, one should pay attention to applied forces that must be
different depending on points which you act on. For instance, if you act on
main, vital points, you must apply somewhat smaller force, because if you
apply greater force, the enemy can be killed. If you do it even in self-defense,
it is all the same immoral, it spoils your good deeds which will be taken into
account in the world beyond. It is another matter if you act on points which
are difficult to access, for example, on points deep in joints or under a thick
layer of muscles. Even a coercion with a great force may not help to achieve
the aim and a coercion with a small force will give no effect at all. That’s why
those points on a training dummy should be marked with another color to get
everything in sight at once. Before acting, it is necessary to decide on the
degree of force applied.
It is a combined training which allows to fix in mind acupuncture points and
channels of vital energy and find them at once. It is done in such a way: it is
necessary to take a big log and made a full-scale human dummy. The dummy
should have everything: head, face, arms, legs. Mark location of points with
red paint. Dimensions of the marks should correspond to true dimensions (of
points). Main channels should be marked with a paint of different colors.
When everything is ready, the trainee faces the dummy at a distance of one
CHI (33.3 cm) approximately. Then, it is necessary to think of a point or ask
somebody to name it, immediately concentrate energy at the tip of one or two
fingers and touch this point. If you are sure of having done everything
properly, you can proceed to a next point. It is not easy to do at the beginning,
mistakes can be often made. That’s why it needs everyday training, hundreds
of time during a day. Gradually everything will become all right. This kind of
training is conducted at a light spot in the day-time, so the sight will help
fingers to get necessary spots. If you face an enemy, naturally you can employ
a certain method. But is not a perfect GONG FU yet. If you wish to scale a
higher level of mastery, you have to train yourself according to the above
methods at night in the dark, using your sight. It is a very difficult matter, you
can not get success in a short time. There is also a concealment in it. Face a
wooden dummy in the dark. It is difficult for normal eyes to make out small
points in darkness of the night. Even if your eyes are well-trained, all the
same you see so-so. Well, how in such a case to get right to the point? There
is a special technique for that. You raise your arm, estimate at which height to
locate your finger tip to hit at a selected point and thrust your arm forward.
The finger should be dipped into mortar before training. A white spot appears
where the finger touches the wooden dummy. Have a rest after ten such white
spots (ten blows) and check results. It is necessary to train yourself each day,
in that case you will get success in a year.
There is one more training method – training in a lamp light (at night). You
gradually decrease the brightness of the lamp until it fully extinguishes. It is a
gradual method, convenient in practice, but the time needed for training
extends. If you acquire this GONG FU to perfection, each blow will go home.
In that case it will be no problem for you to encounter one or two enemies.
Even if you are encircled by a group of enemies, you will be able of making
them to lose fighting ability in a jiffy. That is nothing else but the unsurpassed
skill. However, one should pay attention to applied forces that must be
different depending on points which you act on. For instance, if you act on
main, vital points, you must apply somewhat smaller force, because if you
apply greater force, the enemy can be killed. If you do it even in self-defense,
it is all the same immoral, it spoils your good deeds which will be taken into
account in the world beyond. It is another matter if you act on points which
are difficult to access, for example, on points deep in joints or under a thick
layer of muscles. Even a coercion with a great force may not help to achieve
the aim and a coercion with a small force will give no effect at all. That’s why
those points on a training dummy should be marked with another color to get
everything in sight at once. Before acting, it is necessary to decide on the
degree of force applied.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Jin Jing Zhong
The Fourth Training Stage. Finger Hardening.
The whole innermost essence of DIEN XUE SHU – “Skill of touching
acupuncture points” lies in the force of
the only finger. In order to win an
enemy, physical force can be employed
and fists and legs used. But the force of
one finger is limited very much.
Furthermore, collision of fingers with a
hard surface can cause a body damage.
Therefore to suppress people with a
finger is a rather complicated matter.
You must be in command of a great skill
for it, otherwise you can not reach what
you wish. Consequently, those learning DIEN XUE must first of all acquire
all training methods which were expounded in the above section “Three
stages of the first level of GONG FU”. Only in that case finger training will
make sense
There are various and diverse training
methods for fingers. It is necessary to
choose one or several methods and
systematically adhere to it (or them).
Finger training can be done either
successively or simultaneously with other
required exercises. Any selection can be
done. We shall mention some of methods
for you to select conveniently. For
1 instance, there are in 72 Shaolin Arts
such
wonderful exercises as “Diamond finger” (#1), “Piercing through stones”
(#66), “Rubbing palms” (#72), “Cinnabar palm” (#17), “Rubbing and thrusts”
(#50), “Jumping centipede”, or “The skill of slithering snake” (#13), and etc.
A board of spruce can be also used for training. The middle and forefinger are
to be trained, or only forefinger. It is
necessary to touch the board of spruce
with a finger tip, at first slightly, then
stronger and stronger. Three months
later, the finger tip becomes noticeably
harder as compared with its state at the
beginning of training. At that time
change the board with a brick. After
another three months change the brick
for a stone. And so is day in and day
out.
After one year the finger is thought to be
sufficiently trained. But if you continue
training, the result will be better. It is
possible to inflict a significant body
damage by using this GONG FU. That is
so-called “outer” GONG FU. It is
necessary that a finger should touch
acupuncture points. Achievement of
such level demands hard training during
a year at least. If you wish to achieve the
same effect without touching a human
body, i.e. acquire “inner” GONG FU (QI
GONG), it is more difficult. It must be
taken into consideration that training
according “Diamond finger”, “Piercing
through stones”, “Rubbing palms”,
“Cinnabar palm”, “Rubbing and thrusts”,
“Jumping centipede”, or “The skill of
slithering snake” and other methods
sometimes can cause damage of the skin. Shaolin recipes instruct what to do
in such cases.
The whole innermost essence of DIEN XUE SHU – “Skill of touching
acupuncture points” lies in the force of
the only finger. In order to win an
enemy, physical force can be employed
and fists and legs used. But the force of
one finger is limited very much.
Furthermore, collision of fingers with a
hard surface can cause a body damage.
Therefore to suppress people with a
finger is a rather complicated matter.
You must be in command of a great skill
for it, otherwise you can not reach what
you wish. Consequently, those learning DIEN XUE must first of all acquire
all training methods which were expounded in the above section “Three
stages of the first level of GONG FU”. Only in that case finger training will
make sense
There are various and diverse training
methods for fingers. It is necessary to
choose one or several methods and
systematically adhere to it (or them).
Finger training can be done either
successively or simultaneously with other
required exercises. Any selection can be
done. We shall mention some of methods
for you to select conveniently. For
1 instance, there are in 72 Shaolin Arts
such
wonderful exercises as “Diamond finger” (#1), “Piercing through stones”
(#66), “Rubbing palms” (#72), “Cinnabar palm” (#17), “Rubbing and thrusts”
(#50), “Jumping centipede”, or “The skill of slithering snake” (#13), and etc.
A board of spruce can be also used for training. The middle and forefinger are
to be trained, or only forefinger. It is
necessary to touch the board of spruce
with a finger tip, at first slightly, then
stronger and stronger. Three months
later, the finger tip becomes noticeably
harder as compared with its state at the
beginning of training. At that time
change the board with a brick. After
another three months change the brick
for a stone. And so is day in and day
out.
After one year the finger is thought to be
sufficiently trained. But if you continue
training, the result will be better. It is
possible to inflict a significant body
damage by using this GONG FU. That is
so-called “outer” GONG FU. It is
necessary that a finger should touch
acupuncture points. Achievement of
such level demands hard training during
a year at least. If you wish to achieve the
same effect without touching a human
body, i.e. acquire “inner” GONG FU (QI
GONG), it is more difficult. It must be
taken into consideration that training
according “Diamond finger”, “Piercing
through stones”, “Rubbing palms”,
“Cinnabar palm”, “Rubbing and thrusts”,
“Jumping centipede”, or “The skill of
slithering snake” and other methods
sometimes can cause damage of the skin. Shaolin recipes instruct what to do
in such cases.
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