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15. Exercise
"Celestial’s Palm"
XIAN REN ZHANG
Brief
description*
*Excerpt
from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin
Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin. ISBN:
978-1440474170
The exercise
“Celestial’s Palm” belongs to hard Shaolin exercises for
outer strengthening. This exercise trains to obtain so
called “YANG Hand”, it trains the skill of stabbing
force of finger tips. There is a similar, on the face of
it, exercise for a hand YIN, the soft exercise “One
Finger of CHAN Meditation” (YI ZHI CHAN GONG) (see
par.#7). However, those two exercises are similar only
in that in both cases finger tips are used. Four fingers
closely laid together are used in this exercise. The
training method is quite simple and one can achieve a
good result comparatively soon...
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...If you
deliver a blow at an enemy with your palm, you will
inflict on him a severe wound. Therefore, one should be
quiet and well-balanced. Even those who improve their
skill in “Iron Bull” (TIE NIU GONG) and bear sword and
spear blows with confidence, will not be able withstand.
It is of no importance whether he knows about this
technique or not: when he comes across with “Celestial’s
Palm”, he will surely lose. A trainee in “Iron Bull”
exercises hard force of YANG. Although a trainee in
“Celestial’s Palm” also exercises the hard force of
YANG, but the soft force of YIN is also available,
therefore YIN overpowers YANG. It is called “to
overpower hardness with the help of softness”. There is
such a saying among fighters: “Training the exercise
“Iron Bull”, it is possible to attain perfection, but
this skill becomes ineffectual against “Celestial’s
Palm”.
...When training this skill, it is better to
exercise both left and right palm, in that case the
enemy will not know from where a blow will be delivered.
Two words (hieroglyphs) JIAN and REN – “Tenacity” and
“Endurance” can be the best wishes.
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