Song of The Sip Sam Seh
The translation for The Sip
Sam Seh is The Thirteen Influences. These are broken
down into two main groups:
O Heng or Five Elements, which are strategic in
nature and correspond to the five elements in the
natural world:
metal, wood, earth, fire, and water.
Pahl Gwe or Eight Directions, are spatial and correspond to
the eight points of the compass: N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W,
NW.
Together they
form a framework which we, through training, learn to manifest the
characteristics of the elemental forces of nature and
blend them with the directional forces to create a
unified whole of which we become a part.