Thanks to several centuries of enlightened teachings by extraordinary men in the martial disciplines, we don’t have to be restricted to lives of getting and spending, waiting in quiet desperation for the pain to cease.
Most of us in the Arts focus on the tasks in front of our noses (the correct hand forms/kicks/body alignments), forgetting our option to consciously evolve along the way to ...
Author: Edward Orem
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Walk into any of the U.S.A O-Mei Kung Fu Academies of California and you’ll hear the kids shouting the school rules after every class: “Listen to your teachers! Listen to your parents! Always do your best! Never say ‘can’t’! Use kung fu only for good!” It’s that last one that echoes out, burrowing into the school’s nooks and crannies, seeping into the hearts of the youth. Nowadays, popular martial ...
Author: Gene Ching
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Since our first days of consciousness, we have attempted to push back the veil of ignorance in search of wisdom and power over things we dont understand.
Over the centuries, we learned to master advanced technologies and gather food in an efficient manner, yet our quest for enlightenment was not satisfied. In fact, it continues to this day with equal, if not accelerated, vigor. Why has cont ...
Author: Doug Cook
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Meet Grandmaster Alexander Tao, Founder of China's Police Combat Method, Jing Quan Dao
By Gene Ching
Americans have no idea what it is like to be a cop in China. No idea at all. It's not like here - no high-tech squad cars packing state-of-the-art computer systems. In China, cops are lucky to get a bicycle. Nor is it like Tiananmen Square, targeting unarmed civilians with guns and tanks. ...
Author: Gene Ching
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Ta Mo has the most intense eyes. TaMo (or Bodhidharma in Sanskrit) is accepted as the founder of Shaolin's most precious contributions, Chan Buddhism (Zen) and Shaolin kungfu. However, another legend also attributes the creation of tea those eyes of his. As this story goes, once Ta Mo fell asleep during his nine-year meditation behind Shaolin Temple. Frustrated with his imperfection, he cut his ey ...
Author: Gene Ching (Xinglong)
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