| It's most important to stay loose and
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| | bodies with tension and pain, our minds
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| relaxed in mind and body. To enjoy your
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| | and hearts can't be cleansed. Your mind
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| life, you must be relaxed. When we were
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| | and your heart and your body are
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| children, our bodies were loose, relaxed,
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| | inseparable.Kung fu is action meditation.
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| and flexible. We could do splits, flips,
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| | The goal of kung fu is to relax your body
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| jumps, and twists without thinking about
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| | and your mind, to extend your body and
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| it. We were pure mind in babies'
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| | your mind, to cleanse your body and your
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| bodies.But you're never too old -- we
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| | mind. To be relaxed in your body, and
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| just get too tense, too stiff. We think
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| | relaxed in your life, is how you live
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| too much. One of the most important
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| | fully in the present, experiencing this
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| lessons you can learn doing the Shaolin
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| | moment, here and now.In our modern world,
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| Workout is how to get back that childlike
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| | there's another benefit to action
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| relaxation and flexibility -- to be at
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| | meditation. We all have lives, jobs,
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| home in your body again. It makes no
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| | families. We have wonderful things coming
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| difference if you are in your twenties,
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| | into our lives every day. Who among us
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| fifties, or eighties. Relax. Never feel
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| | has the time to sit and meditate for
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| old. Tell yourself you're not getting
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| | hours a day, like monks in a monastery?
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| older every year -- you're getting
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| | As you'll find out, a half-hour of action
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| younger!Sifu explains that there are two
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| | meditation can be as liberating, for your
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| kinds of meditation: action meditation
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| | body and your mind and your heart, as
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| and no-action meditation. In the West,
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| | several hours of no-action
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| we're most familiar with the no-action
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| | meditation.Kung fu and martial arts
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| kind. We can all form images of Buddhist
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| | represent a refined form of action
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| monks sitting with their legs crossed and
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| | meditation. But any exercise program can
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| their eyes closed, still and silent, for
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| | be a form of action meditation --
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| hours and hours, as they strive to
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| | running, swimming, playing tennis, riding
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| achieve enlightenment.The only problem is
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| | a bike. In the West, we speak of that
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| that too much no-action meditation can be
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| | point in an exercise routine where we
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| as bad for your joints, your back, your
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| | "get in the zone," where we "release
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| neck, as sitting at a computer all day.
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| | endorphins," where we achieve "the
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| This is what Da Mo saw happening to the
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| | runner's high." Those are all Western
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| monks at Shaolin. They spent so much time
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| | ways of approaching the same concept:
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| sitting in meditation that their bodies
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| | action meditation. A relaxed mind in a
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| were as stiff as wooden dolls. He saw
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| | relaxed body.As you go through your day
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| that Ba Tuo had not given them the proper
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| | today, relax. Stay loose. Be flexible in
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| tools to adapt Buddhism to Chinese life.
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| | your body and in your mind. Enjoy your
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| Why do we meditate? To cleanse our minds
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| | beautiful life every minute of the day.
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| and open our hearts. But if we burden our
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