Shaolin Monastery
Temple in Zhengzhou, ChinaWikipedia
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Oct 26, 2026
Tom HuntHOST
On the trail of two more people rumored to possess truly unique abilities.
Tom HuntHOST
The first man I meet is a Shaolin monk who claims to have a unique power, making his body virtually
Tom HuntHOST
indestructible.
Tom HuntHOST
Then, I track down a man who says he's ice-proof.
Tom HuntHOST
I want to find the key to their abilities to work out if they truly are extraordinary humans.
Tom HuntHOST
On this leg of my journey, I've traveled to Ho Hin, which is renowned for its Buddhist temples.
Tom HuntHOST
And I'm here to meet a Shaolin monk.
Tom HuntHOST
He does the most incredible stunts to his body that I don't think anyone else would be willing to attempt.
OsmanHOST
He didn't get sick or anything, right? And he was not known to ever get sick or get, maybe he got a flu now, but he was not known to get, you know, for that to happen.
OsmanHOST
And from the Far East tradition in the Shaolin Temple, one of my teachers who taught me the Qigong energy healing, he was 95 years old and he used to practice, do his sparring every day, right? almost every day in martial arts.
OsmanHOST
And he was 95.
OsmanHOST
Firstly, he used to spar with three 30-year-olds, right? And he used to knock all three down.
AmyVOICE_ACTOR
Even when the other students had packed up, I was still at it, his watchful eyes tracking my every move.
AmyVOICE_ACTOR
Hey, hey, I'm Amy from China, currently living that Shaolin Temple life.
AmyVOICE_ACTOR
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AmyVOICE_ACTOR
Most students come here just to learn Kung Fu, but not me.
OsmanHOST
So like the Hindu tradition or even the Indian tradition, In India, I'm not from India and I respect the culture, including the Western scientific culture, the Middle Eastern culture.
OsmanHOST
I'm a disciple of the Shaolin temple.
OsmanHOST
I do my energy healing, I learn my energy healing under the Shaolin temple.
OsmanHOST
And I learned martial arts in karate, the Japanese form, under Koikushinkai.
OsmanHOST
Koikushinkai karate, which is full content.
OsmanHOST
Koikushinkai.
OsmanHOST
And Shaolin Temple, energy healing and Kung Fu, right? And Tai Chi, right? And there's also acupuncture and alchemy, right? Herbal medicines, I didn't study all that.
OsmanHOST
I started, I was focused more on the energy healing side, right? And under the scientific school, like I'm following Harvard Business School.
TitusHOST
So basically, Kublai is inundated with Buddhism.
TitusHOST
He has a bunch of Buddhist people around him, a guy who's the Chan master who the Shaolin monks who do Kung Fu and go and fight pirates 200 years later are.
TitusHOST
He Sort of insists on Kublai being a Buddhist.
TitusHOST
And then you also have, uh, how you also invites his disciple who becomes Kublai's lifelong friend and one of his closest advisor advisors, a guy named Lubin Zhang, uh, who was a Taoist and then became a Shaolin slash Chan monk.
TitusHOST
Um, so.
TitusHOST
Over this time, Kublai is asking these monks, all right, what actually is Confucianism? What is this weird sort of religion that you guys are practicing? And Kublai asks about the nature of Confucius.
Charlie MorleyGUEST
But I was thinking, oh, Buddhism, that's kind of cool, into hip-hop and stuff.
Charlie MorleyGUEST
And then I saw the Shaolin monks who were on tour in London to raise money for the Shaolin Temple in China.
Charlie MorleyGUEST
And they were doing the show at a theater where there's these amazing martial arts stuff and, you know, one-finger press-ups and stuff like that.
Charlie MorleyGUEST
And I thought, wow, Buddhist monks are super cool.
Jeff MayerGUEST
And getting flexible is such a great way to get out of pain.
Jeff MayerGUEST
In fact, at the Shaolin Temple in China, they use this technique called Pajda Leng, which is stretching and slapping.
Jeff MayerGUEST
Just stretching
StephanieHOST
and slapping.
Bob MartinGUEST
How does it fit in with everything else? So as a social worker, as a philosopher, as a commentator, and the like, you develop a set of values.
Bob MartinGUEST
Working for eight years and studying under a grandmaster from the Shaolin Temple, a Taoist, you develop certain values about what life is about.
Bob MartinGUEST
So those values stay with you and you argue from those values and it all builds on each other.
Bob MartinGUEST
What I learned from Master Nee, you know, I use in arguing for this dirtbag.
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Joe RoozHOST
Okay.
Joe RoozHOST
I got you now.
Bob MartinGUEST
So, so turns out that my therapist was a disciple of, And the English language editor of a very prolific grandmaster from the Shaolin Temple, 72nd generations, 72nd, two generations, father to son, father to son, 72 generations of wisdom handed down.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Wow.
Jacques MoraMarcoGUEST
printed in this fabric with 40 different type of exercises.
Jacques MoraMarcoGUEST
Some of those were for therapeutic use, and then they became martial use in the Shaolin Temple around the year 600.
Jacques MoraMarcoGUEST
So they had different evolutions of these therapeutic exercises for health, and then they had a martial component, and then they came back to the health component just about the last 100 years.
Yun KimGUEST
There's a tremendous amount of research now validating the efficacy of Tai Chi for various conditions, including arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, wound healing, cancer support, cognitive enhancement, and on and on and on.
Sophia ChangHOST
Their influence led me to train in Kung Fu with a Shaolin monk who would become my partner and father of my children.
Sophia ChangHOST
In turn, I introduced RZA, Wu-Tang, and numerous hip-hop and Hollywood luminaries to a real-life 34th generation Shaolin Temple monk.
Sophia ChangHOST
Even though we're not together anymore, I still train six days a week and carry the tenets of Buddhism deep within me.
Sophia ChangHOST
People always ask if I ever use my Kung Fu, and my response is, bitch, I use it every day.
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