Heavy Moving Meditation requires the most mental and physical effort, which makes it unlikely for you to get distracted by your daily life and problems. Heavy Moving Meditation Techniques: Shaolin Tai Chi, Shaolin Kung Fu Soft Moving Meditation Techniques: Shaolin Qigong such as the Eight Brocades Baduanjin Qigong form Light Moving Meditation Techniques: Walking Meditation, Quiet Contemplation, Sitting or Standing Meditation with Music Still Meditation Techniques: Silent Sitting Meditation, Silent Standing Meditation (Lotus Posture or other Still Postures) Here is one way that I like to classify them: The spectrum of Shaolin Meditation techniques is quite broad. What you need is more mental stimulation and thus a form of Moving Meditation is better. It’s at least worth trying to give you more perspective and experience.ĭo you consider yourself emotional? Do you get distracted a lot? Do you find that sitting alone in silence is scary? If so, Silent Sitting Meditation may not be the best technique at this time. The most obvious one is what I call Silent Sitting Meditation however, it’s actually not the best place to start for most people. There are many Shaolin techniques that can be used to help students grow. In time I will indeed write more about these components. To some extent I can describe them in brief through more blogs and articles on here. The reason is that I need to know where students’ perceptions are so that I can most directly and clearly transmit a teaching to the student and with the least amount of misunderstanding. I teach these components mostly in person and through live streaming. There are three key components to Self-Wisdom philosophy and they are: 1) Perceptions, 2) Emotions, and 3) the Subconscious. The second goal is to provide a path of meditation techniques so that the student can grow. The first one is to help people to understand themselves better. There are two main goals of Shaolin Meditation. So what is the goal of Shaolin Meditation? How can it help and is it important? That’s also why some Zen Masters may tell you that Chán 禪 means wisdom. That's because its meaning to an individual evolves with time and practice. That is, it's not Chán or Zen without meditation practice.īut when asked what Chán 禪 means, a Chán 禪 Master, would more than likely skirt around a precise definition. Thus you could say the word Chán 禪 is a philosophy that requires the practice of meditation. A quick linguistics investigation reveals the word comes from the Sanskrit root word 'dhyai', which means 'to contemplate or meditate'. The word Chán 禪 is more commonly known as Zen and is derived from the word 'dhyāna' in Hinduism and Buddhism. Since then, the ideas of Zen have evolved a little differently all over the world. It’s well over 1,500 years old and was initially conceived by an Indian prince named Bodhidharma who first established Chán at the Shaolin Temple in Central North China around 500 AD. Hence there are actually more than 36 different types of kicks.Shaolin Meditation is a discipline that stems from a philosophy called Chán 禪 (pronounced 'Ch - ah - n' in Mandarin Chinese with a rising tone). Please note that there may be more than one pattern (not listed below) for each technique. Listed below are the 36 leg techniques and their representative patterns. Would you know, for example, how Hook-Spring Leg, pictured above and found in the famous Tiger-Crane Set of Wong Fei Hoong's lineage as well as the Essence of Shaolin, is used in combat? Or would you know why Double Flying Kicks, pictured below and found in the Choe Family Wing Choon 72-Pattern Tiger-Crane Set as well as the Northern Shaolin Seven-Star Set, are so deadly? Even when one knows how the techniques are performed, he may not know their combat application or fine points. This list is a good example of hiding secrets in the open. To preserve the 36 leg techniques for posterity, Grandmaster Wong has decided to list the techniques below. It is called 36 leg techniques and not 36 kicks because while kicks form the main part of the collection, some of the techniques are not kicks, like using the knee to lock an opponent's stance or the buttock to fell an opponent. The Shaolin 36 Leg Techniques, or Shao Lin San Shi Liu Tui Fa in Chinese, were kept as top secret, and known only to a few masters. The reason Grandmaster Wong made this statement was because he knew the Shaolin 36 Leg Techniques which included all kicks of all other martial arts, but there were kicks not found in any other martial arts. When Grandmaster Wong mentioned that there were more kicks in Shaolin Kungfu than all the kicks in all other martial arts put together, some people were angry. Hook-Spring Leg - Do you know its combat application?