Long before the invention of the blog, and even before the creation of the World Wide Web, there was Usenet. The world’s first electronic social network was established in 1980, and martial artists have been arguing there ever since.
Back in the late 1990s, I started reading the rec.martial-arts newsgroup as most people do, with […]
Entries Tagged as 'Meditation'
Ordosclan, The Grumpy Savant of rec.martial-arts
March 31st, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: Health and Fitness · Meditation · Philosophy · Qigong · Tai Chi · Wing Chun
Qigong and Energetic Arts a Danger to Health?
March 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Welcome to the fourth edition of Qigong and Energy Arts Forum, a monthly collection of the best new articles on qigong (chi kung), reiki, kundalini yoga, meditation, and other related disciplines. This edition focuses on the risks and dangers–physical, intellectual, and spiritual–of improper practice.
Army’s New PTSD Treatments: Yoga, Reiki, and Bioenergy by Noah Shachtman […]
Tags: Health and Fitness · Meditation · Qigong · Tai Chi · Yoga
Vladimir Vasiliev, Russia’s Mind Warrior
February 25th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Excerpted from Vladimir Vasiliev: Russia’s Mind Warrior is Set to Hit the U.K. by Trevor Robinson
Through training in the martial arts, we begin to pay more attention to aspects of experience that might have seemed peripheral, if not hard to believe before. We begin to start noticing and giving more credence to experiences such as […]
Tags: Aikido · Meditation · Qigong · Video
Meditating on Death Increases Happiness, Study Shows
February 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Philosophers and scientists have long been interested in how the mind processes the inevitability of death, both cognitively and emotionally. One would expect, for example, that reminders of our mortality—say the sudden death of a loved one—would throw us into a state of disabling fear of the unknown. But that doesn’t happen. If the prospect […]
Tags: Health and Fitness · Meditation · Psychology
The Comforts of Mindless Consistency
February 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Recounted by psychologist Robert Cialdini:
One night at an introductory lecture given by the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program, I witnessed a nice illustration of how people will hide inside the walls of consistency to protect themselves from the troublesome consequences of thought.
The lecture itself was presided over by two earnest young men and was designed to […]
Tags: Meditation · Psychology
Learn To Concentrate with Xzibit and Team Ryouko
December 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments
zhu: concentrate; focus
What do you get when you combine Nichiren Buddhist chanting, Tae Kwon Do, four booty shakers in short cheongsam dresses, a muk yan jong and a pimped out Cadillac?
My New Year’s Eve plans? No, it’s an Xzibit music video.
Tags: Martial Arts Humor · Meditation · Video
The Nondual Perspective on Subjective Reality
December 24th, 2007 · 11 Comments
The principle of Subjective Reality—that the universe is consciousness and nothing more—has been employed by authentic spiritual traditions for millennia. Its intended function is not to reveal Universal Truth, but to prepare a seeker for the next stage in their development by dispelling their material illusions.
In other words, Subjective Reality is a spiritual colonic, […]
Tags: Meditation · Philosophy
Qigong and Energy Arts Forum: Volume 1
December 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments
Ebb and flow - rise and fall by Patrick Parker (Mokuren Dojo)
One of the main philosophical and strategic principles of the ancient Kito school, from which both aikido and judo took root, was the idea that ki (energy) is always rising and falling, ebbing and flowing and changing forms. This article at Mokuren Dojo describes […]
Tags: Health and Fitness · Meditation · Qigong · Yoga
Astral Projection and Yin Shen: A Taoist Perspective
November 10th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Excerpted from the book Tao and Longevity by Nan Huaijin
Does the spirit actually leave the body during the transformation of chi into shen?
…There are many [Taoist] descriptions of being pregnant for ten months, suckling the baby for three years, and facing the wall for nine years that have led some people to believe that successful […]
Tags: Meditation · Qigong
Yogi Stops Own Heart for Six Weeks, Returns to Life
October 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments
The True Story of Sadhu Haridas, a 19th Century Yogi Phenomenon
Originally published in the London Telegraph, August 22, 1880
We are not told whether the Seven Sleepers who retired to a cave in Ephesus during the reign of the Christian-killing Emperor Decius, and only woke up 155 years afterward, when Theodosins II was on the throne, […]
Tags: Meditation · Qigong · Yoga
