🚨Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks Shaolin... skill of “To Fly Up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall” is also called “Eight Steps in the Horizontal Position” (HENG PAI BA BU). It is a soft Shaolin Gong Fu, it develops the internal power and belongs to one of kinds of “Light Body” exercises. The secret technique of that method was passed over only by monks of the Shaolin Monastery ...show more

The Shaolin Temple is a Buddhist monastery in China... that dates back to the 5th century. It’s where Chan Buddhism took root and where monks developed what became Shaolin kung fu, not for movies, but for discipline, health, and survival during real political chaos. Religion first. Martial arts second. Centuries of both. It was also dedicated to a lesser-known religious figure named “Screech.” One of his descendants would later star in an American television program called Saved by the Bell.show more

🚨 An extraordinary feat from the skills of Shaolin... "Kung Fu," specifically the "One Finger" skill, which is one of the most difficult martial arts that requires exceptional mental and physical balance.show more

How Shaolin thought the same thing wouldn't happen to... him is one of the world's greatest mysteries. 🎯show more

Chinese "Martial Arts" are maybe the LARP-iest and least... useful of all combat sports... it's always tragi-comic to hear people say they want to go "train Kung Fu with the Shaolin monks"; I never know what to say without being cruel so you usually just smile and nod.show more

Wushu, also known as kung fu, is a competitive... Chinese martial art that blends elements from traditional and modern styles, such as Shaolin kung fu, tai chi, and Wudangquan. The term "Wushu" translates to "martial arts" in Chinese,show more

Took a moment to watch Speed Speed⭐️ learning Kung... Fu at Shaolin Temple in WhereZhengzhou . I can see that Speed was really serious about it. And the little boy next to him was apparently at a loss!😂show more

And it’s a Wrap on the set of SCHOOL... OF KUNG FU 🥋 I’ve always wanted to make a classic Chinese movie, as I see in the movies. Princess semefene wrote it and I flew down to the Shaolin temple and shot it. My deep appreciation goes to the monks and kids in the temple who loved and treated me so good, they saw the Vision and assisted me to make my dream a reality 😭😭 Thank you God, thank you Director max and crew, we did it. Can wait to share with my fans a black Chinese movie 😂😂😂 #believeshow more

Monastery of Mor Augin (St. Augin), an ancient Syriac... Orthodox Monastery, on the southern slope of Mount Izlo, located in area of Nsibin, southeastern, Türkiye. This historic site introduced monastic living to Mesopotamia and is still a significant pilgrimage destination for Syriac Orthodox Christians. It symbolizes the lasting impact of early Christian monastic practices. The monastery was founded in the first half of 4th Century AD, by Saint Awgin, a monk from El Kulzom, Egypt. Mor Augin came with 70 of his disciples to preach Christianity in Mardin Province which was controlled by Sasanian Empire. It had more than 350 monks in those periods and was one of the main spiritual centres in Mount Izlo and Turabdin. In 20th Century, there were more than 20 monks in the monastery. In 1915, Sayfo the monks witnessed the destruction of Syriac villages in the plains below. The monastery was also affected by violence. The last monk passed away in 1968. Due to persecution of Christians in Turkey, SURYOYE had to flee to Europe and other countries and few others moved to nearby villages in area of Turabdin. Saint Mor Augin is the traditional founder of Syriac monasticism. He originated from Qluzma in Egypt, and started off as a pearl diver who gave pearls to the poor and needy. In mid-life he decided to become a monk at the monastery of St. Pachomius, and from there he and his brotherhood, the holy 70 ancestors, set off to Bethnahrin (Mesopotamia), settling in the region of Mount Izlo. The remains of the monastery dedicated to his name still stands on the slopes of Mount Izlo, overlooking the Mesopotamian plain. His name testifies his success and his glory because it is translated as “the good man” (Bar Hebreus, vol. 1, 1872-1877, p. 85ff). As Mor Augin was a great and respectable monk, his word and achievement was known even in Byzantium (Constantinople) and by the Emperor Constantine. He said: “These three warriors are known in our kingdom: Antonius in Egypt, Illarion at the coast and Mor Augin who moved out of Egypt and come and settled down in your region and enlightened it. We plead and beg of him that he prays for us in front of Our Lord, so that we and our kingdom will be protected and safe.” (Tale of Saint Mor Augin). He’s called “Second Christ” in the Syriac tradition owning to the miraculous deeds he did. This certainly does not mean an equality between the both of them, rather it expresses the particularly tight succession of Mor Augin. Mor Augin and his companions filled and decorated the whole east with monasteries and churches, from Egypt to the border of Persia. In 363 AD, Saint Mor Augin passed away at a great age and advanced to the kingdom of heaven. “His body was buried in the cave underneath his monastery’s southern altar. His holy relics are kept till today in the monastery. May his prayers be with us” (P. Behnam, 1908, p- 18f). Patriarch of Antioch, H.H. Ignatius Zakka I, appointed Fr. Joachim Raban as the abbot of Mor Augin Monastery in April 2010. With the help of the Rabans and other employees of Mor Gabriel Monastery and SURYOYE in Europe, Fr. Joachim has restored some of the Monastery buildings. Restoration of buildings e.g. the main church and vital parts of the monastery are still ongoing till this day. 🎥© l.ianour (IG) #archaeohistoriesshow more

Three Monks is pure charm. It's one of our... favorite animated films, but many haven't heard of it. It was done in Shanghai during the '80s, and the team aimed to make a minimalist gem. We look into the thought and story behind it: ─➤show more

☦️ The Armenian Monastery of Saint Thaddeus in northwestern... Iran. Rising in northwestern Iran near Urmia (specifically the Maku region), the Saint Thaddeus Monastery is one of the oldest and most magnificent Christian monuments in the area. Due to the dark-colored stones of its walls, it is also known by the locals as the 'Black Church' (Qara Kelisa). According to tradition, it was built over the tomb of Saint Thaddeus, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ, who brought Christianity to these lands. Video by Hamed Akbarishow more

The 19 Buddhist monks carrying a message of peace... made it to Richmond on Monday, the 100th day of their walk from Texas to D.C. The mayor’s office estimated 10,000 people lined the route through the city.show more

One of our favorite MK traditions is a late... night walk on to Pirates of the Caribbean! I could ride it over and over!show more

Congratulations to Rory McIlroy on your 2nd THE PLAYERS... win ! 👍🏼👏🏼💪🏼🏆🏆 To stay as consistent and as dominant as Rory has over such a long period is very hard to do. It is no surprise that he is one of the hardest workers off the course as well as on it. His training over the last 2 decades has enabled him to stay healthy, strong and be one of the longest hitters on Tour. The foundation of his training consists of a variety of heavy lifts, pulls and pushes, jumps and explosive med ball throws and slams.show more

Snyder: How did Putin come to power? One of... the elements was that the Russian secret services bombed a series of Russian apartment buildings and then blamed it on Muslims. This is what the people Trump admires do.show more

My opinion, “Knob to the ball” is one of... the worst cues you can give a hitter. Not only is it internal but it causes a pushing of the bat. Barrel must jump in front of knob!!!show more

I was born in Ashtown, Kumasi. Many years ago,... that durbar ground where the funeral was held was a football park. We used to play "gala" with the hausas living in Asawase and Akwatia Line. Those games were Shaolin soccer. It's either your leg is broken or you break another's. On Sundays, we casually saw the King attend mass at the St. Anne's Anglican Church. Very very humble personality! Nana Sei-Tu Nyamekese... Nana nya nkwa daaaaa. Down that Manhyia street is Apagyahene fie, family house of ex-President Kuffuor. This small town has given Ghana some of the best brains, including the late Dr. Thomas Mensa, who was one of the inventors of fibre-optics. When you grow up in Ashtown, there are two things involved. You either become extremely successful or flip to the other side. There's no middle ground. It was the real "street". Ashtown is like the City of London. It is the historic core of Kumasi and where Asante ingenuity is held.show more

There is a room in Málaga that was built... to be the closest thing on earth to standing inside heaven. It is called the camarín of the Virgin of Victory, and it is hidden at the top of a tower inside the Santuario de la Victoria. To reach it, you climb and the ascent is the entire point... The building you are climbing through was completed in 1700, and it was designed as a single argument made in stone. At the bottom lies a crypt: a black chamber crowded with white plaster skeletons, a meditation on death and the brevity of life. From there a staircase rises, and as you climb it the light grows stronger and the imagery changes from bones to saints. The architects of the time understood this ascent as the soul's own journey, the dark crypt as the stage of penitence, the staircase as the stage of spiritual progress, and the room at the very top as the final stage: the union of the soul with the divine. That room at the top is the camarín, and its dome is one of the most extraordinary interiors in Spain... Every surface is covered in white and gold plasterwork. There is no empty space anywhere. The Baroque called this horror vacui, the horror of the void: the conviction that a space meant to represent heaven should not contain a single bare patch of stone. Out of that plasterwork emerge angels, flowers, birds, and mirrors. The mirrors are not decoration alone. They catch the light pouring in through the windows of the drum and throw it around the chamber, so that the gold seems to move and the whole room appears to shimmer and breathe. This wonder was built by people who believed that if you wanted to show a human being what heaven might feel like, you did not describe it to them. You built a room, and you let them climb into it... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.show more

Predicting the next word "only" is sufficient for language... models to learn a large body of knowledge that enables then to code, answer questions, understand many topics, chat, and so on. This is clear to many researchers now, and there are nice tutorials on why this works by Ilya Sutskever resorting to compression ( ) and by Geoffrey Hinton ( ). However, the emergence of types of understanding is not unique to language models. In by Misha Denil and Brandon Amos the authors trained models to predict the next few time stems of over a hundred robot hand sensors (Touch, Gyro, Accelerometer, Joint Info, Actuator Info, etc.). They ten found out that they could regress the shape of the thing the hand was touching from the activations of the neural networks using probes. That is, the model developed an internal representation of shapes even though it was simply used to predict "only" the next few senses. Awareness follows from simple predictions and interaction with the world.show more