Murphy Martial Arts

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字門正宗
AUTHENTIC ZIMEN BOXING
附醫傷秘錄
including SECRET RECORDS OF INJURY MEDICINES
胡遺生
by Hu Yisheng
中央國術館審㝎
authorized by the Central Martial Arts Institute
[published Mar, 1933]

[translation by Paul Brennan, Oct, 2014]

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書將付梓吟二絕代卷頭語
This book has been sent to the publishers with a couple of extra verses to start it off:

記曾請益侍蒲團祗覺高堅費仰鑽如是我聞茲盡述多聞那敢比阿難
無邊妙諦落言詮闡道權成十二篇幸有八廚王考在解囊欣貨刻書錢
I have written down what I was taught, attentively gathering it all up,
but I feel only that “the more I look up at his teaching, the higher it goes, and the more I drill into his teaching, the harder it gets”. [Lun Yu, 9.11]
I have told it as I have heard it,
so much have I heard that I dare compare myself to Ananda [Buddha’s main disciple].
     The art’s boundless subtle truths provoke interpretations,
and so I have elaborated upon the method, pushed to produce twelve essays.
I am blessed…