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Shaykh Mohammad Abdullah Ansari

who has written 3 posts for KaiMen.

Jul
21
2010

The Body/Mind Connection

To put the monks in the condition necessary to carry out the Buddhist practices Bodhidharma or Ta Mo as the Chinese call him, taught them a series of physical movements and breathing exercises that came to known as Chi Kung.

Jul
2
2009

Sacred Movement and Sufi Yoga

When you move unconsciously, by habit or as an automatic reaction, you don’t feel the movement inside.  What movement? you ask me.  The whole universe is moving inside of you. Our lives are a series of habitual actions, habits.  Habits have their place; without them we’d be exhausted at the end of the day for […]

Aug
18
2007

The Body, the Mind and Conscious Movement

Seen with normal eyes the body is a single solid thing, but any scientist can tell us that that’s just an illusion, that the body, like everything else in the universe, is more air than matter.