How to do the Gibbon Walk

[RobB]

Hi All,

Thought some here might be interested by this publication from Vivienne Lo via the Needham Institute.

How to do the Gibbon Walk: A Translation of the Pulling Book (ca. 186 BCE)

http://www.nri.org.uk/yinshu.html

Cheers

Rob

[D_Glenn]

Nice!

My teacher was always quoting these from the wenwu transcriptions but it's nice to finally see them written in English rather than just spoken.

I don't like 'pulling', as I think 'Leading' is a better translation. Yin is like taking a women by the hand, or child you care about and gently leading them to follow you.

She says she used pulling because it's the stretching the arm outward that pulls the qi, but we know that it's actually our 'yi' that leads the 'qi' to move the arm.

Thanks for the link. I've been waiting for this but had forgotten about it.


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