The free way of the Shaolin arts is 72 arts of enjoining good and forbidding evil. Its express yourself with the universal language of body language.
Pai Yu Feng is a free sky cedar peak that the summit requires a meeting of shaolin masters to determine who has the best flying side kick.
The Shaolin styles are a philosophy of Zen and Kung Fu. This philosophy aims for self-cultivation, peace within, and physical mastery with effective fighting. The integration of Zen and Kung Fu, the mind and the body, achieves harmony through discipline as a complete, unified one.
The key points:
Mindfulness, or moving meditation, physical exercises, training to attain mental stillness through rigorous physical activities
Complete balance of Yin and Yang; and physical and mental balance of soft, hard, internal, and external, action, rest, and fast and slow to attain equilibrium.
Perseverance and discipline are key, training through difficult bodily hardship to overcome comfort and laziness.
Compassion and nonviolence are also essential. A powerful physical fighting form is developed through Shaolin exercises. These exercises require the practitioner to instill compassion and nonviolence in their lives, avoiding conflict and using self-defense as a last resort.
Virtue above all, including humility, respect, and simplicity, along with wisdom, are attained by struggling for righteousness, which is the greatest moral virtue of Shaolin arts.
The six harmonies of mind and body. For the mind, there is intent into energy, the qi, and from the qi into strength. For the body, there are the shoulders with hips, elbows with knees, and hands with feet. These are the six harmonies that must be maintained through the discipline of the Shaolin styles.
The key attributes of Shaolin exercises:
The various techniques within the 72 arts of Shaolin internal and external conditioning. The fundamentals are stance training, flexibility, and bodyweight exercises.
The 72 arts of Shaolin include various disciplines such as diamond finger, iron shirt, iron body or iron head, and even light foot techniques.
There are combat techniques. The four skills are kicking, hitting, wrestling or throwing, and grabbing. These are the four combat skill techniques that Shaolin practitioners practice to excel at.
There are also the five animal styles of training: The tiger, crane, leopard, snake, and dragon. The various attributes of each of these animal styles a person develops are used effectively according to a given situation, circumstance, or opponent.
Weapon mastery is also present, which includes using the staff, which is known as the mother of all weapons, and then the broadsword or other sword techniques, the spear, and the whip. These are the main four weapons that are usually mastered by Shaolin practitioners.
The Shaolin styles of combat, theory and force require the use of individual self-cultivated independent self-sufficient fighters that through the use of zen philosophy and kungfu aims achieve sky high summit levels such as Pai Yu Feng, the Tree that Cedar reminds of the virtues of Martial arts through moral development of character. The entire expanse of humanity is a tree whose leaves are waiting to be breathed into life. So as the leaf turns, breathes, and sheds its final fall, the Shaolin arts live on in the natural environment of the hearts of its followers.