Bodhidharma
Who knew? TanDao has gone viral in India. Our video Bodhidharma and True Power, suddenly has jumped to over 1,000 hits a day for the past two weeks. We’ve received thanks from proud Tamilians from Southern India, who express appreciation for our video introducing this legend. Who is Bodhidharma? Traditional practitioners of karate and kung [...]
Do you know this guy? If you are a student of Okinawan, Japanese, Korean or Chinese martial arts, you recognize him as Bodhidharma or Damo. Legend says he was a Buddhist monk from India who taught moving meditation exercises (Yi Jin Jing) to strengthen the bodies of the monks. These yoga-like mind/ body postures became [...]
We want to thank Neil Hall, Chief Instructor of London Chinatown Tae Kwon Do, for his inspiring post, The Most Important Person in the Room. In it he raises insights on on mastery, “The essence, I would say, is master yourself in context of others.” Whether intentional or not, his message echoes the hidden spiritual [...]
No Time to Train? Practice Mentally Evolving Martial Artists practice daily. No. It doesn’t mean dragging ourselves out of bed at dawn as some do in the romanticized Asian tradition. It doesn’t even mean working out every day. In fact our hectic lifestyle and our “to do lists” crammed with career, school, personal and family [...]
Fighting? Bodhidharma? What does kicking ass have to do with sitting on your ass? Today martial artists acknowledge Bruce Lee as the force for popularizing the art of kicking ass rooted in China’s Shaolin Temple, source of Far East fighting arts. Yet the original force behind the Shaolin legacy is Bodhidharma. The blue eyed, bearded [...]
