Dr Chandra shekhar Bhatt's RADIO INTERVIEW on his books with
the central idea of his unique art Vajramukti for healing helping educating
mankind AT United Kingdom Radio
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Had my live interview on a radio station in England
Interview went great over in Newcastle in Tynes England
I talked on Vajramukti my new art and my book on Vajramukti at
Amazon
The article of Vajramukti had already been covered by Shaolin
society United Kingdom
I talked about one of my students who wasn't cured at United
States and UK for Breathlessness. He was falling put of breath and heart beat
missing Vajramukti systems cured him .He is still running business at
Mumbai
I spend almost 15 minutes with them in Live interview and gave
message globally of Vajramukti making whole United Kingdom my friend
I. DO BELIEVE I M ALREADY AT UK TO GIVR MY KNOWLEDGE and HELP
MANKIND
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out , Just mention my name Dr Chandra shekhar Bhatt to give yourself an
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Dear friends Please
listen and encourage new art Vajramukti
yoga for healing mankind to proliferate around globe
United Kingdom is great country they gave shelter to great
people like Karl Marx and Engels who wrote their Communist Manifesto there, they
sheltered Shalman Rushdie and many others .My article on Vajramukti yoga was
first written by Shaolin society United Kingdom thanks to them. They are great
Talent searchers they work for great people from Kashmir named as Pandit
Gopikrishna . I am giving the article about my art Vajramukti which was put in
Shaolin society of United kingdom.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF KUNG FU YOGA Yoga has captured the
attention of the West as the latest fashion. Celebrities such as Sting, Woody
Harrelson and the Grateful Dead have made it part of their practice. Even
Madonna attributes her latest incarnation (albeit sacrilegiously) to yoga. And
just the aerobics craze found new life by fusing with martial arts and jazz
dance; martial arts have also begun making some similar trendy fusions to yoga.
Not only are many martial artists practicing Yoga as cross training, new
hybrids are being born out of the imaginations of both savvy salespeople and
sloppy translators. Taoist Yoga, even Shaolin Yoga, has begun to emerge as the
new thing on the health scene and in the martial circles. But what is Yoga
exactly and how does it relate to martial arts? Most Westerners only think of
Yoga as extreme contortionist-like stretching in truth, it is a much more
profound discipline than most of those fad followers believe. Yoga is a time- honored
method of self-realization than may even be the very root of martial arts The
word 'Yoga' comes from the same root as the word 'yoke' and it is documented as
early as 2000 BCE. What most people envision as Yoga, those contortionist
postures, is really only one small aspect of a much larger field of practices.
Those postures are called 'Asana' which translates as 'seat'. According to the
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali the fundamental text of Yoga by the 'father' of Yoga
Asana is the third 'limb' of an eightfold path known as 'Ashtanga'. The other
seven limbs are Yama (observance of morals), Niyama (self-restraint), Pranayama
(breath control), Pratyahara (sense inhibition), Dharana (concentration),
Dhyana (meditation) and Samadhi (ecstasy). Beyond this, there are many other
forms of Yoga, such as Karma Yoga, which is sort of like a discipline devoted
to doing good deeds. Essentially, Yoga embodies a wide variety of disciplines
that are vehicles for spiritual transformation. Generalizing Yoga to Asana
alone is just as shallow as generalizing all martial arts to breaking boards
alone. However this generalization persists in the West for the same reason
breaking boards persists- it is spectacular media image of these ancient arts.
This misconception muddles the creation myths of our own beloved martial arts.
According to popular legend, Boddhidharma brought the direct lineage of
Buddhism to China from India in 526 BCE. He arrived at Shaolin Temple in Honan,
and founded Shaolin Kung Fu and Zen Buddhism (known as Chan in Chinese). This
is the most common creation myth in martial arts, since Shaolin Kung Fu is also
the root of main Japanese and Korean styles. Only three forms comprised
Bodhidharma's Shaolin Kung Fu muscle tendon change (Yijinging), bone marrow
washing (Xisuijing) and the 18 Arhats palm (Luohanshibazhang), only the third
form was martial the first two were Qigong forms. Since Bodhidharma was Indian,
many sources postulate that he based his Shaolin Kung Fu upon Yoga. The
postures of Yoga Asana do bear a striking resemblance to postures’ of Qigong,
so much so, that one cannot help but wonder. Was there a connection between
Yoga and KungFu? The answer is very confusing. As previously mentioned Yoga
Asana, is only one aspect of Yoga. Many martial scholars make common mistake of
inferring Bodhidharma's teachings were based on Yoga because Yoga Asana
resembles Qigong. This is a little misleading. Some Yoga scholars do not
believe that many Asana (at least those postures that resemble Qigong) were
even around at the time of Bodhidharma. The only Asana that can be confirmed
archeologically is padmasana, or 'seated lotus' position. This pose is
fundamental in many meditation practices. Indeed, Bodhidharma was most famous
for his practice of sitting meditation. According to legend he sat meditating
on a rock for nine years. Sitting meditation is the cornerstone of his
innovation of Buddhism, Zen. In fact, he invented Shaolin Kung Fu because he
felt that the monks of Shaolin who were too weak to endure the hardship of
prolonged meditation, So if lotus was the only asana of Bodhidharma's time and
if he did incorporate it into his new Kung Fu practice, it might be said that Shaolin
Kung Fu was based on Yoga Asana. This is still based on a lot of assumptions,
but at least the terminology is more accurate. A more intriguing theory is that
Bodhidharma based Shaolin Kung Fu Pranayama. Pranayama is the fourth limb of
Patanjali's Yoga. Like Qigong, Pranayama refers to the exercises that cultivate
the life force that resides in the breath. This concept alienates most Western
post- Descartean thinkers; our worldview separates mind and body. A life force
that resides in the breath has no place here. Breath is body and life force is
mind. The idea of something that is both upsets our dominant paradigm. However,
the ancient Greeks had shared this breath life-force philosophy of the Indians
and the Chinese. They called it Pneuma. This is the same root word from where
we get 'pneumonia'. Language fossils of this idea are more evident from the
Latin root word 'spirare'. This is where we get the words 'spirit' and
'respiration'. The link between breath and life force is clearly seen in words
like 'inspiration', 'expiration', and 'aspiration'. More subtle examples exists
in terms like 'conspiracy', which can be interpreted as both 'to breathe
together' as well as 'to share the same spirit.' By embracing these ancient
philosophies, mind and body can be reunited and Qi (or Prana or Pneuma) becomes
more comprehensible. Ironically, some translators have chosen to call Qigong 'Taoist
Yoga'. English has its limitation. We have no words for Qigong or Yoga in
English. The advantage of English is that we can just adopt these words from
their original language. While 'Taoist Yoga' might appeal to some new age
marketers, it is kind of like calling instant ramen noodles-'Buddhist
spaghetti', It is confusing enough without scrambling terms. Qigong in China
predates Bodhidharma by several centuries. Even if he added Yoga Pranayama to
his two forms of Qigong, the results are undistinguishable. While Bodhidharma's
Qigong methods are elegant, Qigong has long standing precedents that surpass
his contributions. So if neither the physical poses of Asana, nor the breath
control method of Pranayama which contribute to the movements of Bodhidharma's
Qigong, can we still say that KungFu find its roots in Yoga? The answer lies in
the seventh limb of Patanjali's eightfold path- Dhyana (meditation) both of the
terms Zen (short for Zenna) and Chan (short for Channa) were phonetic
translation of Dhyana. This was the soul of Bodhidharma's contributions. He
infused meditation into martial practice. Common sense, backed with archaeological
evidence, clearly show that martial practices existed in China previous to
Bodhidharma. So why Bodhidharma is even credited as the founder of Kung Fu it
was his introduction of meditation to martial arts that revealed the heart of
Yoga spiritual transformation. Bodhidharma elevated martial skills into a
vehicle for spiritual transformation. He put the 'art' into martial arts. On
this level, martial arts became just as B.K.S Iyengar says, 'It is like Yoga'
Before Bodhidharma, martial arts were just a means of self-defense. Today, in
his wake, it can become a method of self-realization. Today, it is easy to lose
sight of the spiritual especially in the martial arts. Each day brings another
deluge of information overload, stressing our attention to its breaking point,
and jamming our ability to focus on the clear pursuit of the way. We get
defensive. We forget Bodhidharma's teachings. Right now, many new practitioners
completely disregard any notion of spirituality. Eager to ride coattails of the
latest fashion trends, Kung Fu and Yoga have become strange bedfellows in
today's health clubs. It is a strange twist, perhaps another repercussion of
our mind-body worldview, which has placed these two venerated vehicles for
spiritual transformation in our gymnasiums of physical transformation. From out
of China's Wushu Guan and India's Yoga Ashrams and the shimmering silks and
diaphanous cottons of the master of old now it's all spandex and logos. No more
burning incense to honor our ancestors Bodhidharma and Patanjali. In fact, a
few health club practitioners even know who these seminal figures are. Instead
it is the latest exercise machines and boon boxes. The health clubs tend to
greatly simplify the disciplines to give them the wildest appeal. Yoga is often
reduced to the Asana alone just as martial arts are often reduced to only
aerobic kicking and punching. The deeper meanings beneath the underlying
philosophies are usually lost. While many of today's instructors struggle to
maintain an air of tradition in their health club classrooms, the main
marketing motivation for many of those clubs is the vain pursuit of a higher
butt. While this might be a supplementary bonus, imagine Bodhidharma's
reaction. This is most evident in cross training. Yoga is said to compliment
martial arts and vice versa. In its actuality, both Yoga and martial arts are
complete systems. Study either one thoroughly and there is no need of anything
else. The concept of complimentary training implies that there is a deficit.
But after a thousand of years of research and development, neither Yoga nor
Kung Fu has any gaps to be filled. Both disciplines offer a fulfilling lifetime
quest; all that need be done is that you pursue it for a lifetime. It is only
our MTV- driven attention span that makes us move to the next thing before
truly engaging the previous one. There have been some hybrids of Kung Fu and
Yoga like 'Shaolin Yoga' designed to catch our attention with the promise of
filling the two 'needs' at once. For the most part, these mongrel schools are
really marketing ploys, not actual innovation. Both compound the issue. As a
matter of fact, there is ALREADY AN EASTERN FUSION OF YOGA TO MARTIAL ARTS THAT
COMPLETELY OMITS BODHIDHARMA. THE MODERN INDIAN MASTER CHANDRA SHEKHAR BHATT IS
AN EXPONENT OF A HYBRID OF MARTIAL ARTS AND YOGA KNOWN AS V A J R A M U K T I
HE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF A FOLLOWING TO PUBLISH BOOKS, BUT YOU WOULD HAVE TO GO ALL
THE WAY TO BOMBAY TO TRAIN WITH HIM. Despite these criticisms, this new
popularity actually reflects upon both disciplines, because now they are
available to a greater population. While health clubs are far from ideal
settings to study either Kung Fu or Yoga, they are better than not studying at
all. And many of those new converts may eventually seek to fill the spiritual
vacuum by pursuing the arts on a deeper level. The next generation of
traditional practitioners when the facts die down, a fraction of those
followers will undoubtedly remain to join our martial community more seriously.
Growth, expansion, Empowerment- we are all seeking some sort of transformation.
Whether it is the elusive feeling of security of crime ridden streets, or the
shedding of a few unwanted pounds, or even the pursuit of spiritual ecstasy, we
are all on our own personal quest. We choose the ancient paths as a means of
transformation to these transformations. And yet, these ancient paths are
modern incarnations that must grapple with modern misconceptions. Martial arts
are built on the insecurity and paranoia of violence. We can easily slide into
a combat mode; after all, it is hard to be spiritual when someone is kicking
you in the head. But that spiritual aspect remains for those who wish to pursue
it. Yoga is unencumbered with the burden of violence, so its means
misconceptions too, they are not as pronounced as ours are. Almost 15 centuries
ago, Yoga offered the martial arts to self-realization. The door is still open.
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