How to Get Bruce Lee Like Strength Without Ever Going to a Gym. Article by Zen Habits contributor Jonathan Mead; follow him on twitter. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce Lee Bruce Lee was a paragon of cool and an icon of the ultimate bad-ass. What’s more impressive is that Bruce trained his body without ever stepping into a gym and with very little use of weights or machines. Here are just a few of Lee’s physical feats: Performed one-hand push-ups using only the thumb and index finger.Could hold an elevated v-sit position for 30 minutes or longer.Could throw grains of rice up into the air and then catch them in mid-flight using chopsticks.Could break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick.Performed 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups.
You don’t have to buy lots of weights or machines, either. _2880x1800.jpg (JPEG Image, 2880 × 1800 pixels) International. 1.
A Zen Wave Like ocean waters, intellectual currents are always in motion. They churn up organic matter from below, creating and extending powerful nutritional mixtures. When groups of people at a particular historical moment begin to experience the world in a particular way, naturally they meet and talk, ponder, read and write. They are open to diverse influences.
In this way, a Zen wave broke on North American shores in the middle of the twentieth century. In the early 1950's, D.T. Cage influenced Merce Cunningham, the dancer-choreographer, who in turn influenced many others in the performance art field. Within ten years, lively Japanese Zen masters who, from their side of the Pacific, had also been dreaming a Zen wave, were coming to America to settle. I was part of this Zen wave. So in 1970, I moved to California in search of Zen and an entirely new life. 2. What is Zen, and how does it differ from other schools of Buddhism? Bodhidharma is the legendary founder of Zen in China. Angeles Arrien essay: The Fourfold Way. Go back to Spirit & Sound Texts Index View a Fourfold Way Overview Chart Learn about David's Instructional Toning CD "Healing with Sound and Spirit" Please note: this is an unofficial webpage devoted to Angeles Arrien.
The excerpt below is posted here to whet your appetite for Ms. Arrien's wonderful work, and perhaps entice you to explore her website or order her books online. As Alvin Toffler points out in his visionary book "Future Shock", we must become more capable of handling change than ever before if we are to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century. Although Toffler writes about introducing new techniques to help us handle change, indigenous and Eastern cultures have long recognized that the only constant is change. In cultures like ours where we are alienated from our mythological roots, renewal requires a return to the basic source where all personal and cultural myths are ultimately forged the human psyche.
Every human being carries the power of presence.