Shaolin Monk Rain Demonstration

Inner Landscapes

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Explorations of Emptiness

  Three Jewels New York City, Lama Marut, Explorations of Emptiness Arya Nagarjuna 6/21/07

Taoist standing practice - core stability

 http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/articles/scni37a7.htm
A traditional exercise practised by martial artists over the centuries, Standing Practise (Zhan Zhuang) is known for its surprising toughness (postures are traditionally held for at least 60 to 80 minutes) and for its ability to develop health, strengthen the bones and tendons, increase core stability, correct any muscular-skeletal misalignments (crucial for lop-sided sports like [...]

ashtanga yoga demo

Wudang Shaolin Kung Fu Secret Qigong

engaged Buddhists have failed

Strong Lessons for
Engaged Buddhists

http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/buddhists.htm

Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you,
and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you,
and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with
contempt, or dispute the passage with you?

— Whitman, “Stronger Lessons”

In the middle of the Vietnam war [...]

Rooting

 

Silk Reeling

EXCERPTS FROM   “ILLUSTRATED EXPLANATIONS OF CHEN FAMILY TAIJIQUAN”
BY CHEN XIN
http://www.taiji-bg.com/articles/taijiquan/t29.htm

Chinese reprint of Chen Xin’s book is available through this site - click here!

PART ONE
ILLUSTRATED EXPLANATION OF SILK REELING ESSENCE [...]

Lengthening And Peng

http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/about/articles/rep/2004-08-31
We publish here a translation of the second section of the first chapter of Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan, a seminal 1963 work by Shen Jiazhen and Gu Liuxin (this part was written by Shen Jiazhen).
I used the text contained in Renmin tiyu chubanshe, Taijiquan Quan Shu, 1988, which is a reprint of the original, [...]

Taoist Alchemy - Symbolic Language

http://www.flowinghands.com/mbs_htm/mbs.art.alchemy.htm
The language of Taoism is a language that is about the truth. It expresses the fundamental core of life. It is about nature and nature’s principles and as such is eminently real. For those who have eyes to see it, it is without equal for revealing the essence, depth, and authenticity of things. It is [...]

Playing With the Clouds:

 The Foundations of Taoist Dream Practices
by Juan Li
http://www.healingtao.org/deutsch/artikel2.htm
The beginnings of dream practices in China are lost in the depths of antiquity. It is said that the emperors of the Shang Dynasty some 3500 years ago had attached to their court a category of ritual performers called Zhan Meng in charge of interpreting dreams and facilitating [...]

Daoyin

http://www.daoyin.it/e_Daoyin.htm
Daoyin is an ancient Chinese body-mind exercise originally aimed at health care as well as physical and spiritual purification. The ascetics of past time believed it could be used to obtain the “eternal youth” (changsheng bulao). The first historical reference about it appears in Zhuangzi, a Taoist text written [...]

Stance Training

http://www.hungkuen.net/training-stancetraining.htm

Hung Gar is known for its strong, stable stances and puts much emphasis on stance training. Needles to say that stance training is considered to be an extremely important part of Hung Gar and their importance cannot be stressed enough. They are the foundations of all techniques and movements, as well as being one of [...]

Taoist standing practise - core stability

http://resistancetraining.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/taoist-standing-practise-core-stability/
traditional exercise practised by martial artists over the centuries, Standing Practise (Zhan Zhuang) is known for its surprising toughness (postures are traditionally held for at least 60 to 80 minutes) and for its ability to develop health, strengthen the bones and tendons, increase core stability, correct any muscular-skeletal misalignments (crucial for lop-sided sports like golf, [...]