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Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks

72 Arts of Shaolin: (7) One Finger of Chan Meditation

YI ZHI CHAN GONG

One Finger of Chan Meditation | Brief Description 

Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
YI ZHI CHAN in 72 Shaolin Martial Arts belongs to the category YIN. It is one of the most deadly methods among the soft kinds of Shaolin GONG FU. The gist of mastership is in one finger. XI HEI ZI, a well-known master of the Southern Shaolin school, is in full command of this kind of GONG FU. He studied the Martial Arts during 40 years, visited all Southern and Northern provinces and no man was able to overcome him...
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...When striking with one finger flame extinguishes and the glass does not get broken, it means that the aim has been attained. It needs 10 years of tenacious work. If this mastership is directed against a man, there will be no wounds seen, but the internal organs will be seriously injured. A weak blow in direction of some acupoints can cause vascular spasm and block blood circulation. After it blood circulation can be restored only with special massage. This GONG FU is much more serious than “The Palm of Red Sand”, “The Palm of Black Sand” and “Hands of Five Poisons”. The only thing you need is regularity, and success will come.

72 Arts of Shaolin: (7) One Finger of Chan Meditation

72 ARTS OF SHAOLIN | Brief Descriptions

(1) Diamond Finger - (2) Twin Lock - (3) Striking with Foot  (4) Pulling out Nails - (5) Ringing Round a Tree - (6 ) Four-Part Exercise - (7) One Finger of Chan Meditation - (8) Iron Head - (9) Iron Shirt - (10) A Series of Blows - (11) Sweeping with an Iron Broom - (12) Hand - a Bamboo Leaf (13) Jumping Centipede - (14) Raising a Weight of 1000 JINs - (15) Celestial’s Palm - (16) Method of Hardness and Softness - (17) Cinnabar Palm - (18) Lying Tiger - (19) Swimming and Diving Skill - (20) Sluice Shutter weighing 1000 JINs - (21) Covering with a Gold Bell - (22) Finger Lock - (23) Luohan’s Exercise - (24) Lizard Climbs the Wall - (25) The Art of Lash - (26) PIPA - (27) The Pole of a Falling Star - (28) Poles of Plum Bloom - (29) The Art of Stone Padlock - (30) Skill of the Iron Arm - (31) Fist like a Bullet - (32) Soft Bones - (33) Frog - (34) Piercing the Curtain - (35) The Force of Eagle’s Claws - (36) Iron Bull - (37) Skill of Eagle Wings - (38) Hand of Sun Rays - (39) Exercise for Groin - (40) Iron Bag - (41) Method that Reveals the Truth - (42) Skill of Tortoise Back - (43) Skill of Deft Jumps - (44) Skill of Light Body - (45) Iron Knees - (46) Technique of Jumps - (47) Palm of Iron Sand - (48) Pulling a Silk Thread - (49) Method of drawing in YIN - (50) Rubbing and Thrusts - (51) Stone Pile - (52) Neither Lances nor Broadswords Can Wound - (53) Gong Fu Flight - (54) Hand of Five Poisons - (55) Skill of Water Separation - (56) To Fly Up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall - (57) Skill of Somersaulting - (58) Pole of Cypress - (59) Ba Wang’s Elbow - (60) Pinching a Flower - (61) Pushing a Mountain with Palm - (62) Technique of Horse Saddle - (63) Skill of Nephrite Belt - (64) YIN Fist Method - (65) Skill of Sand Bags - (66) Piercing Through Stones - (67) Pulling Out a Mountain - (68) Claws of Mantis - (69) Gong Fu Bag - (70) Palm of Guan Yin - (71) Raising a Pot - (72) Rubbing Palms