15 Superpowers Monks Have in Real Life

the four color pages of comic books bring incredible characters to life super-powered do-gooders who use their gifts to fend off villains save civilians and protect the world but what if we were to tell you that very real super-powered individuals may be walking among us but they're not mutants nor avengers they are monks we heard meditation was good for you but what you're about to see is 900 crazy [Music] number 15 tree hugging tree hugging sounds quite lovely doesn't it monks go around hugging trees and it all looks quite sweet but it might not be as sweet as it sounds if you happen to be on the receiving end of a hug from a monk who has been hugging trees ok let us explain a monk in training will wrap their arms around a fully grown tree and use all their force on squeezing and hugging it until they have no more energy left they will do this every day and within a year some progress will start to show they might be able to shake free a few leaves or even notice some movement in the tree branches within another year they should be able to shake the leaves of the trees without stopping but every day of every year the monk will continue to hug the tree until they get out of it what they set out to achieve and what is that to uproot the tree over the years they must use their force to wriggle the tree free until they succeed then if they ever have to clasp their opponent it would be easier for them to cause fatal injuries like this video smash the subscribe button and click the notification bell right now or this centipede will crawl on your face when you're sleeping number fourteen walking on water she liliang was a huge fan of the 1980s kung fu films when he was a child he loved learning about the martial arts of xiao lin and fang xiu and he was inspired by flight on water and flying through the air when he had a career as a driver she liang drove past kwanzu xiaolin temple and realized that he hadn't really moved too far away from his childhood dreams he decided to join and become a monk and started his journey to walking on water now she spends every day by running with iron bars on his feet within 9 years he can now walk nearly 400 feet on the water with the help of wooden boards for buoyancy and balance he can stand on each board for around a second and manages to prance across the water as if it were a solid surface as far as she knows he is the only monk in china who can do this amazing feed when he's not walking or running on water she runs on mountain roads carrying up to 20 pounds of weight running with steel plates on his back and practicing calligraphy there's no netflix and chill for this guy number 13 super human strength superhuman strength is something that most people read about in fiction books and mythology or see in superhero films it refers to power and force exerted far beyond what is physically possible for a human such as throwing a car off someone who is crushed underneath over the centuries people have tried to enhance their strengths with substances technology and exercises still nothing has ever been in the realm of super human in saying that harvard scientists have now proven that superhuman monks do exist scientists went to the himalayas to study those monks and were stunned by what they found through techniques like praying fasting meditation static dancing and psychedelics they were able to exhibit superhuman strength as a survival mechanism an example of this was the monks being able to spend their winter nights 15 000 feet high in the himalayas trying their sheets with their body heat there are even stories connected to buddha where people could recall their past lives know each other's thoughts and shoot fire and water from the body while of course science can't back all of these up there's a lot to be said for the power of the mind number 12 throwing needles through glass for anyone trying to become a shaolin monk they need to master 72 different arts they range in intensity and challenge and one of the hardest skills to challenge to become a shaolin monk is being able to throw a needle at glass and puncture it think it's not possible then think again monks in training throw a needle full force at a pane of glass being held up by two people with a balloon hanging on the other side once the monks throw the needle it penetrates the glass and pops the balloon watching this happen in real time is not all that exciting because you can't tell that the needle was really penetrated at all however when it was caught on a special camera that records at 25 000 frames per second the results were phenomenal monks that have trained successfully in this skill are able to throw the slither of metal through the glass which sends shards of it flying popping the balloon fast the monks say that it's both focus and chi that help them to do it number 11 finger skills have you ever been able to perform a headstand or handstand it can be quite tricky right as you're trying to hold your weight up and balance you're trying to find the best position for your hands to be many of us then spend the next few days with a sore back sides neck arms or entire body not monks though they've got this skill mastered in fact they're showing us that the way we're doing it is pretty darn average in xiao lin kung fu most people are able to perform an inversion stand with two index fingers ouch right not to them two finger handstands are pretty hardcore but what about one finger the monk starts by balancing himself on outstretched fingers with one index finger stretched out on each hand slowly he pushes himself into an inverted position using the hand with the outstretched fingers he then transitions to just one outstretched finger the skill arrived in chicago around 50 years ago and many people have been trying to master it ever since meanwhile the rest of us are trying to figure out how to do a regular handstand without falling flat on our faces number 10 iron crotch ask any man and they'll tell you that being kicked in the nether regions is comparable to childbirth ask any woman and she'll say he's lying but ask any monk and he'll say that he doesn't know what they're complaining about it doesn't hurt to be caked down there pardon this is one superpower that all men wish they had to be kicked in the family jewels and feel no pain believe it or not it is possible and it can actually be quite beneficial to go down this route monks practice an exercise called the iron crotch exercise which is to make that area as strong as iron to do so they stimulate tissue blood flow and resilience by continuously increasing the stimulation level not only does this mean that it hurts less but it can also have some surprising benefits the stimulation of constantly hitting it promotes increased testosterone production not to mention a higher sperm count even blood flow is better which can help the situation for men later in life this is one skill that both monks and everyday men can see the benefit of number nine maintaining body temperature most people know by now that daily meditation can have some profound effects on your mental health you can feel more in control calmer and with more ability and readiness to tackle challenges that are thrown your way but did you know it can also do something incredible to your physical health tibetan monks have been found to be able to control the temperature of their skin with meditation which is no mean feat from a scientific standpoint while their core temperature stays normal their skin temperature can rise by as much as 17 degrees fahrenheit around their fingers and toes and it's no bluff harvard university scientists led by herbert benson were able to study these monks thanks to an agreement with the dalai lama who visited the university in the late 1970s they discovered that not only could they raise their body temperature but a group in sikkim india were able to decrease their metabolism by 64 to put that into perspective most people can only do this in their sleep by up to 15 these monks truly do have super powers number eight iron head imagine being able to run full force at a wall and cause more damage to it than your head that's a unique superpower that many monks have and it's astounding but before you start thinking that you can run at a wall and achieve the same result know that it's a long process and probably a little painful monks wrap their heads in 10 layers of silk fit a sheet of metal to the top of their head then wrap it with toweling or more silk this keeps the metal cap that is shaped to their head in place they then hold their neck and head muscles in alignment and breathe in as they hit the wall and make an impact they strike their heads against the wall repeatedly then charge forward and hit the top of their heads again over the weeks they do so with increased force over the months the monk will remove some of the layers of silk then more every two or three months until their head is bare they are then able to run at a wall and not cause any damage to themselves we're not sure what use this would have in the real world but it would make for a fun party trick number 7 iron sure if you've ever wanted to learn how to handle heavy blows by your opponent or even sharp objects then it might be time to spend some time or years with a monk they will show you how to create your own iron shirt and no we don't mean that they'll grab a piece of iron shape it to your body and give you a bit of clothing made of iron they can actually mobilize their chi inner energy and defend themselves against both sharp objects and heavy blows that's some pretty impressive stuff xiaolin kung fu students start their training by sleeping on hard beds for anyone with back problems that's some pretty intensive training even to begin with they then wrap their bodies in soft fabric and massage the areas but that's not all over time they will hang a bar outside dig a pit underneath it and put fine sand in it every day for three years they hang on the bar fall into the hole with all parts of their body touching the sand and remove the soft fabric as time goes by as their body hardens to the pain they start hitting it with a wooden hammer followed by an iron one by the time training is complete monks have an incredible tolerance to pain number six skill of light body to weigh say 110 pounds doesn't mean you need to apply 110 pounds worth of pressure when you walk lie down or move in any way there's a skill called skill of the light body that allows people to use very little of their weight regardless of how much their body actually weighs in xiaolin writings there's mention of monks who can rest on branches weightlessly similar to birds and bees even though they weigh 110 pounds but before you hop outside and try it out with the chances of you fall into the ground pretty high you must first go through a massive training process it involves a giant clay bowl being filled with water and carrying a heavy backpack filled with iron while walking on the rim of the bowl you would do that for hours every day once a month water is removed from the bowl but more iron is added to your backpack the goal is to keep walking on the rim of the bowl without tipping it over or falling into it that process continues until the bowl is empty of water at the end of the training the person who has mastered the skill of the light body will be able to walk on blades of grass without crumpling them number five diamond finger any shaolin exercise done right can make you look pretty powerful and like you have super powers but this one known as buddha's finger or diamond finger is something that's just that little bit more special in fact it's incredible this shaolin exercise involves your training to create a strong finger that's capable of damage at the end of the training you would be able to knock a hole in someone's chest scar a tree trunk or break a stone with just one finger basically with enough training your finger pointing can inflict some real physical damage on someone it starts with poking trees and planks of wood to increase the strength in your fingers training moves on to making hard strikes and producing great bursts of force the one finger handstand is also a side effect of being able to master the diamond finger think about how much such a skill could help you in everyday life you'd be able to hammer nails into wood without the use of a hammer or cause severe damage in a fight if you were fighting for your life while this skill can take several months many monks have mastered it that's obvious in the heavily dented trees around any training facility number four sixth sense monks are wise people and they spend their entire life fine-tuning that wisdom foresight and intellect they meditate train and focus on self-improvement in every aspect of their life for many monks that has equated to a sixth sense that the average person could never hope to achieve in a single day or even in a few months monks are able to attune their minds and bodies to become more aware of the world they live in and their direct surroundings over time they even manage to sense danger even when others don't they can foretell their future and the future of others and they seem to be aware of everything on an entirely new plane to the average person this isn't a skill they are born with or learn overnight monks and buddhists understand their sense of self especially in relation to their mind they treat their sixth sense the same as their hearing sight vision and so on there is an easy way to explain the difference between a trained and untrained mind most people have a one-step process where they see an object for example i see a pen someone who is self-aware like a monk has two steps in the process their awareness makes them say i'm aware i see a pen number three endurance no one will deny the fact that most monks have incredible endurance that's a given especially when you come to understand just how much training they do but there's a particular type of monk who has more endurance than others and they are known as the marathon monks according to legend there are monks around kyoto the monks of mount hie who run 1 000 marathons in the same number of days to reach enlightenment it's not enough that they have to run for 1 000 days but they also have to stop at 250 temples and shrines along the way to ponder life such is the complexity and challenge of this task that in over 130 years fewer than 50 men have completed the challenge those who do are called living saints or human buddhas the goal is not so much to improve their fitness either it's considered a spiritual journey that offers a monk plenty of time to think about life what it means and how they want to achieve spiritual enlightenment but you lost us at the word marathon and then again at one thousand of them number two iron bull technique when a technique from the shaolin monks has the words iron bull in its name you know it's gonna be a good one perhaps most people could benefit from this monk's superpower if they ever found themselves overpowered in a fight the iron bull technique is about hardening your stomach to withstand blows and maybe even a potential stabbing students start by scratching and scraping at their stomachs with their fingers and palms that doesn't sound like hard work does it well that's just the first step students in training then start using a blade to scrape at their obliques and stomach before moving on to a wooden then iron hammer when using hands and blades no longer brings about pain this process will continue for several months before monks eventually learn how to absorb blows from long battering rams without even flinching you know you're a master of the iron bull technique when a strike clash cut or blow to the stomach is a mere tickle from an enemy rather than something that can bring you to your knees number one pain threshold have you ever sat in a vat of boiling oil and did anything other than scream of course you haven't because sitting in a boiling tub of oil would be most people's idea of torture unless you're a monk and then it's just a walk in the park in nang bua lom fu thailand a performance was held where monks attended a gathering and one of them sat in a boiling hot vat of oil with no consequences that's not something he managed to achieve overnight he sat in a state of calm and told his audience that the vat is boiling and can burn but that he had reassured himself that it's not like that according to scientists this process is not physically possible but monks have already proven scientists wrong on several occasions for example they can slow down their metabolic processes alter their skin temperature without changing their core temperature and experience great amounts of pain without even flinching therefore it's not out of the question for them to sit in hot oil and make it seem like they're taking a leisurely bath okay so superman and spider-man are pretty impressive superheroes but as it turns out monks have some pretty remarkable real life skills as well which one surprised you the most can you do any of these also check out our other cool stuff showing up on screen right now see you next time

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Length: 19min 14sec (1154 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 07 2020