Shaolin Monk Rain Demonstration

Inner Landscapes

[...]

Explorations of Emptiness

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

Way of the Warrior - Kalari, the Indian Way

Way of the Warrior - Kalari, the Indian Way [1/4]

Way of the Warrior - Kalari, the Indian Way [2/4]

Way of the Warrior - Kalari, the Indian Way [3/4]

Way of the Warrior - Kalari, the Indian Way [4/4]

The Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus

The Heart Sutra Mash Up ver.01

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 [...]

Gracie Jiujitsu Yoga Breathing Method

ashtanga yoga demo

Krisnamacharya Yoga Film 1938 (silent)

Wudang Shaolin Kung Fu Secret Qigong

Urban Yoga #1 - Shanghai

Wings to Freedom: Himalayan Yoga Neuroscience & Astrophysics

The Endless Knot

http://www.jetcityorange.com//Buddhism/Endless-Knot.html 
The Endless Knot is a symbolic knot used in Tibetan Buddhism. The Endless Knot is also known as dpal be’u in Tibetan or shrivatsa in Sanskrit. Other names include the Mystic Dragon, the Knot of Eternity, and the Lucky Diagram.
The Endless Knot is an intertwined knot without beginning or end, symbolizing the Buddha’s wisdom, infinite [...]

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 [...]

The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan History and Its Contexts

 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0231136641 
The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji ( Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, and combines a sectarian history [...]

meditation MP3 files

binaural beats, the Schumann Resonance, brain waves, et al.
http://www.jetcityorange.com/meditation/ 
I meditate. My inspiration is Tibetan Buddhism as taught by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. As I began to sit, the nerd in me read up on things like the relaxation response, brain waves, binaural beats, the Schumann Resonance, psychoacoustics, entrainment, and neurofeedback. I created [...]

Mani Wheels

http://www.jetcityorange.com/Buddhism/Tibetan-prayer-wheel.html
Tibetan prayer wheels contain mantras written on strips of paper. Spinning the prayer wheel is like saying the mantra repeatedly. Traditional prayer wheels contain hundreds, thousands, even millions of copies of the mantra “Om mani padme hum.” evoking Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of compassion (Avalokitesvara).
Smaller prayer wheels are turned by hand. Others are powered by [...]

Exploring Tantric Buddhism Association

 
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tantra/quotes_and_images 

Home

Schedule of Events

Introduction to Buddhism

What is Tantra?

Quotes and Images

Recommended Reading

Notable Links

What’s New

[...]

Four Great Leg Strengtheners

Step away from the squat machine and strengthen your quadriceps, calves, and feet on your yoga mat.
By Alisa Bauman
http://resistancetraining.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/four-great-leg-strengtheners/
It’s no surprise that fitness videos and gym classes with titles like “Yoga Buns and Legs” place a heavy emphasis on the classic standing postures. Unlike weightlifting, which isolates particular muscle groups, yoga’s standing postures efficiently and [...]

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 [...]

The Guru’s Of Hip Hop

The Guru’s Of Hip Hop
http://www.mbaproject.org/index.php?s=4Youth&c=News8230

This article appeared in Yoga Journal a while back. It’s one of the hottest articles ever on the subject, featuring Wu Tang, Russel Simmons, Heirogliphics, Afu Ra and more… You can download or read it here.

DOLLA LAMA

http://theworsthorse.net/dolla/dolla.html

“Going over the haters”
Art and answers from the one and only DOLLA.
A couple months ago, we got an email out of the blue from someone who seemed to be calling himself the “DOLLA LAMA.” He humbly introduced himself and asked that we check out his art. We did, and it was love at first [...]

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, [...]

Tibetan yoga

Into the Mystic
http://www.yogajournal.com/wisdom/464_1.cfm
Still largely cloaked in mystery, ancient Tibetan yoga practices are slowly being introduced in the West, but teachers remain cautious about revealing their secrets.
By Elaine Lipson
While the Chinese occupation of Tibet has stirred the outrage of the world’s spiritual community, it has also brought many of Tibet’s religious secrets into the light of [...]

Utkatasana : Awkward, Powerful Pose

Utkatasana : Awkward, Powerful Pose
http://resistancetraining.wordpress.com/2006/10/26/utkatasana/

click on link or image for original source

 

Improves overall body strength
Opens pelvis
Relieves menstrual cramping
Shapes lower muscles
Cuts fat pocket under butt
Aligns skeletal [...]