Chan
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 [...]
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 [...]
Zen found its way into the Japanese culture by way of the Shaolin monks, who learned Zen (Chan in Chinese) and Kung Fu from Bodhidharma. In Zen Buddhism there are little glimpses of enlightenment (called kensho) that come to us from the seemingly mundane world. You’ve probably heard it expressed as a “zen moment” — [...]
