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Mastering The 9 Ki Stars

Blind Man's Method

This method is just one out of many. Virtually anything can be stored on your fingers. It is tremendous and you can surprise yourself and others.

As you can imagine, it would be impossible to carry books, calendars and tables wherever you go. In the old days, masters and warriors would travel great distances by foot and the less one needed to carry, the better.

Have you ever seen images like the one here, portraying Chinese people with their hands hidden behind big sleeves? This may be done not to keep one's hands warm or for fashion sake.

Long sleeves also enabled a person to either practise mudras or secretly counting formula on their fingers. Long sleeves may be used to hide weapons when passing through villages. This image is a fragment of a painting by Pu Ru: http://www.chinapage.com/painting/puru/puru.html

If you consulted a master, he could be seemingly leisurely asking you questions, maybe on the construction date and orientation of your home or ask your birthday, and start giving you all kinds of "true" and fascinating stuff without even having used any paper. Of course, either hidden in his sleeves or with his hands behind his back, he would be doing finger calculations. Masters would not leave any written notes for you to either figure out how he went about things or so that you could complain or take advantage later on.

Some finger calculations became famous because they were used by blind fortune tellers. By commiting formula to memory, one can do without any calendar and swiftly calculate the Four Pillars of Destiny horoscope just on the fingers.

You too can learn this technique and have most - if not all - of the Chinese calendar and Chinese compass codified in your hands.