Chavdar Gradinarsky
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Chavdar Dimitrov Gradinarsky
Born 11 01, 1958, Varna Bulgaria
1976-graduates with distinction Varna Mathematics Secondary
School
1984-Master’s degree, Sofia University-Arabic, Chinese, English
and International studies
1992-2011-Ministry of foreign affairs of Bulgaria
1994-Degree in Clingendal, Netherlands
1994-1997-Posting to Syria Damascus Head of Consular service
1997-1999-Head of Visa Department
1999-Degree in Protocol, India
1999-2002-Head of Consular section in Beijing
2004-2007-Political, ambassador’s deputy Beijing
2009-2011-Head of consular service, political and security-
Tokyo Japan
April 2012-onwards Senior Consultant International markets
Eurosilex Bulgaria
High degree of Qigong proficiency. Excessive knowledge of
martial arts.
Languages: Russian, English, Arabic, Chinese, Bulgarian,
considerable amount of Spanish.
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A deep and true study
of Qigong and Chinese tradition facts and routines helpful to
health and understanding many of the mysteries of the world
today. Correct positioning as to the everyday life challenges, a
powerful weapon for health and self-defense.
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Finally for the moment, we come to the notion of knowledge. I
don’t mean to pretend there has never been no-knowledge
presented as real. Yet the term in itself does give some
additional certainty as to the real substance of the thing
learnt. In addition to that, a disciple having acquired it does
suppose a level or a stage from which onward he has become
somehow able to build and go on more independently. Knowledge
with Qigong would to a greater extent stand for ability to
develop further guaranteed by capability to escape the snares of
time and people, to solve riddles and deflect seduction. For my
teacher these have been qualities incomparably more important
than numerous pictures in books about martial arts that would be
telling the practitioner nothing at all. Most of the time the
students know it subconsciously and that makes for frustrated
ones who are the course and reason for the stagnation in the
development of Qigong too.
An important aspect of knowledge is its role of a go-between for
us and the spirits that recognize our levels and qualities
through the knowledge we truly possess. Accordingly, when
telling us something important they simply impart it, sometimes
through a dream; on other occasions through hints and a sudden
feeling or urge to do something or leave it.
This last point is of relevance to another basic principle
needed when training in Qigong. That’s the idea of all living
things being connected and dependent upon each other. It is an
issue discussed in scientific and most ridiculously in political
circles where it is used to serve financial and egotist
interests. The importance of it could not possibly be logically
presented, yet is easily felt and admired in terms of the
myriads of forms and beings created to no obvious reason by the
creator. One can’t really be serious in thinking the color
nuances of plants and animals were created for the reasons of
propagating, eating and defense. That is a sphere where the
communication between worlds is at work and artists, old people,
lovers and children know that only too well. The ones I have
omitted are the students of Qi and they take it rather too
seriously in practical terms in order just to be mentioned.
It is that deep meaning of knowledge and the subtle ways of
getting it that are the bridge between worlds and by constantly
crossing it we develop the feeling of Qi and the ability to
manipulate it.
As a sea and coast embracing themselves by way of small ripples,
as sun and clouds at sunset horizon, as wind of breeze in the
midst of blooming cherries, Yin and Yang dancingly overlap in
continuous flow of time. When they are in harmony there are no
illnesses or storms, we are happy and our parents are healthy.
Yet there is a margin in their being at harmony that is
sometimes breached. The greatest disharmony between them is seen
as conflict by some. In fact it is just a way to go further
enough as to be able to unite later on. It is in fact the same
cosmic harmony that brought us about and would finish that
beautiful dream someday. Caught in between, people do cry and
laugh, live and die; some even join a foreign ministry in a
small European state. The important thing is to avoid being sad.
We are never sad; sometimes just pensive. Or at least that’s how
it should be.
These were the extremes of course and the normal fluctuation of
Yin and Yang is in a margin that would permit life, even if a
miserable one. As with the constant change from day to night,
from restlessness to satisfaction, these are margins accepted
and tolerated. Yet imagine the extremes of 20 hours sunlight but
not in the polar circle, say in Sahara desert instead! I dare
not push you into imagining a foreign ministry in a small
European state with its moral and professional extremes that
would be a bit too much really!
The reason of a training philosophy based upon Yin and Yang is
not just to teach one a routine. That could be done without much
bothering and is done in most of the practice sessions all over
the world. The true one is to take the disciple both far and
deep enough as to get a proper feeling of himself being a part
of a cosmic order and that is something even the astronauts know
nothing about. That is what knowledge under Qigong denotation is
meant for. The mere choice to be made here between going for the
quantity of the knowledge or its quality is an important one as
these are paths normally followed for a lifetime; that is never
really long enough.
Another problem is hidden in the nature of progressing through
Qigong that makes it difficult simply to face a beginner with
such a question. It is on a later stage that the desires and the
capabilities of a disciple would lead toward clear proclivities
and preferences. Then in an unobtrusive manner, a successful
disciple would be treated by a competent master to periods of
ever increasing numbers of new routines and others when for
months nothing would seem to be happening except for the tedious
going about details and aspects of exercises already learned and
even mastered to a considerable extent. For one thing, what is
the meaning of being really mastered to an extent? Apart from
depending upon and differing in accordance with the pupil’s
sense of progress it still has one certain feature to be judged
after. It is effectiveness. The master would say that the moment
a routine or a few tricks turn into a weapon that level has been
achieved.
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