Bodhidharma: Power in Stillness

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Before Zen had a name…
before monks spoke of enlightenment…
there was a solitary wanderer who crossed mountains and kingdoms in silence.

Bodhidharma was not a man of comfort or ornament.
He carried no wealth, no weapons, no audience.
Only presence.
Only discipline.
Only an inner stillness so fierce it reshaped the world around him.

When he reached the Shaolin Temple, he taught warriors what few ever grasp:
that true strength does not begin in the fists…
but in the mind.
Stillness was his forge.
Meditation his blade.
Through silence, he carved men into something unbreakable.

This is the story of a master who proved that the deepest power is not motion—
but the ability to sit, unshaken, while the world storms around you.