Aikido Bo Staff Techniques<p>The mirror hanging on the staff Is the Enlightenment that shines within. The sharp knife indicates That the pain of passions will be cut. The stone-crystal symbolizes The purifying of defiled habitual thoughts.</p>

Techniques Martial Arts Techniques for Short Staff and Cane: Using One Hand or Two Hands on the Wooden Stick Strikes, Swing Strikes, Chops, Crook Strikes, Pokes, Punches, Jabs Blocks, Sweeps, Pull Downs, Spinning and Twirling Instructional Tips, Tools, and Suggestions

    Zen Master Yunmen Wenyan and Shifu Miao Zhang were walking together in the hills behind the monastery one cloudy autumn afternoon.  It began to rain steadily on the two old friends.  Yunmen said, �My staff has changed into a dragon and is swallowing up the heaven and earth.  So, my friend, where do mountains, rainfall, rivers and the great earth come from?� Miao Zhang was quiet for awhile, stopped on the trail, and then held his cane in his hand with the tip pointing to the sky.  He said, �Yunmen, as for the source of their coming, the tip of my cane points to the fecund depths of vast emptiness, the crook end to the endless inter-marriages of ten thousand realities, and my hand grasps the heartwood of the ordinary mind.  So, my friend, Yunmen, where are they all going?�

The Complete Book of Tai Chi Chuan: A Comprehensive Guide to the Principles and Practice.  By Wong Kiew Kit.  Shaftesbury, Dorset, Element, 1996.  Index, bibliography, 316 pages.  ISBN: 1852307927.  The reasons for Wu Tang Tai Chi Chuan favoring the sword over the staff, and for its limited use of weapons, are discussed in the chapter on Tai Chi weapons, pp. 278-285.

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Short staff also named as Biān 鞭 Gān 杆 (whip staff) has a length of 13 times the width of practitioner's hand.  Shifu Jiang says that the Wu Dang short whip staff  is 13 hands long, and the stafff for use in the Chen Shen-Pu Short Staff form is 13 hands long.  For me, relative to the size of my hands and height (6'6"=198cm), my "13 Hands Staff" is 54" long (137.2cm).  

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Chinese Chan Buddhist Master Shoushan held up a bamboo staff before a group and said, "If you call it a bamboo staff, you are clinging.  If you do not call it a bamboo staff, you are ignoring.  So tell me, what do you call it?"  - Wumenquan, # 43.  

    Nan-ch'uan asked Miao Zhang, "Is Ordinary Mind the Dao?"  Miao Zhang said, "No.  My mind is not ordinary, so the Dao is a dream within a dream.  My cane is ordinary, so it walks with me along the Watercourse Way, pointing to the Abode of the Dao in the new forest."  

"Staves are a traditional prop for the elderly and infirm, and this has led to their association with wisdom.  The ability of a staff to perform wonders is also featured prominently in the scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Moses and Aaron, in their task to liberate the Hebrews from Egypt and deliver them to the Promised Land, employ staves. The staves are capable of performing miraculous feats to demonstrate the power and authority of God.  Staves are also associated with wizards and other users of magic and sorcery. my review here Haraibou (literal translation meaning 'purification stick') were staves that were used by the miko (Japanese female exorcists) to fight demons in Japanese lore." -  Wikipedia - Staff (Stick)