Chanshi Acmo is the founder and President at Bodhio Foundation (Formerly known as The Broken Buddha Foundation) ®, a non profit, meditation center and a humanitarian organization that transforms you to being loose, playful and natural. By bringing about a wholesome meditation in you from within, we enable you to lead happier and a more fulfilling life.
He designs and delivers programs consisting of different sets of powerful transformative tools that shall bring new meaning and joy to every aspect of one's daily life.
With his focus on meditation, Chanshi has been sharing innumerable meditation techniques for more than a decade, that personally empowered him with an enlightened state of being. His programs are based on techniques and methods that are driven by customized system of Zen, Tao, Sufism, Vajrayāna and Yoga that are strongly free from any religious or traditional and cultural baggage. Thus, emphasizing only on the essence and what works for an individual at a personal level.
Having been on the other side, he can empathize with the challenges people face on an everyday basis in the corporate professional world. This enables him to design and deliver content that is relevant to the present day mindsets.
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Why the name - The Broken Buddha?
Buddha-hood or the Christ-hood is a natural expression of every being whose idea of the Buddha has been broken down completely. In the process of self discovery, the first and the foremost action to be taken by every individual is to break the ideas pertaining to the self.
It is evident in the following natural phenomena, how only through the process of breaking can the essence bloom.
Broken clouds pour rain
Broken soil sets as fields
Broken crop yield seeds
Broken seeds give birth to new plant...
Unless the shield breaks open, the essence remains hidden, protected and most importantly useless.
The “Broken Buddha” is also an analogy to depict this generation of wise beings. The prudent beings of this generation are neither going to fit into the mental conception of what perfect is nor what austere is. The Broken Buddha is an enlightened accountant, the enlightened cobbler, the enlightened software engineer…. The Broken Buddha is YOU.
A natural movement in the expression of truth is for the truth to pour itself back into the world; embracing all its seeming perfections and imperfections.
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Chanshi Acmo is a spiritual teacher, musician & composer and a social entrepreneur.
He was born to a humble South Indian Brahmin, Kannada speaking family. He was the only child to his parents that allowed him a great luxury of time and space to be lost in his own inner explorations and experiments. A few years after of his birth in Bangalore, his parents moved to Mysore, where he spent all of his growing years.
Though all of his initial exposure to wisdom of meditation, yoga, religion and spiritualism came through the Brahmin tradition and family inheritance, it was his parents’ distinct approach to life, a devotional father and a strong-willed mother, that instilled a grounded acceptance of the ‘heart-mind’ unison in him, that later opened doors to several meditations that were heart and mind oriented.
Regularly watching co**se on pyre in a graveyard that was behind his grandparents house became an intense initiation to his inner inquiry, that led him to explore the teachings of many masters across different ages. However, it was the personal experiences through his life that made him become crystallized to be receptive for an inner awakening.
Having completed his BE in Electronics and Communication, in 2006, he earned his Masters in Business Administration in 2008. Post a short lived corporate life, he ventured into various social entrepreneurial entities with his wife that, as he feels, became means to express the creative energies within him. All his ventures have always been around helping people with an organic life of well-being and balance.
The conventional education he had helped him much to establish an unparalleled contextual relevance to his spiritual teachings, avoiding esoteric concepts as much as possible.
Satire, humor and at times anger too… are his fond tools, that he says can help to awaken people a little faster than being lovey-dovey. However those who have really known him well have always felt the underlying love and compassion in all his teachings.
He founded ‘The Broken Buddha Foundation’ in 2015, to host and encourage humanitarian programs with its complete focus on meditation through several methods and techniques.
The foundation designs and delivers programs consisting of different sets of powerful transformative tools that intend to bring new meaning, joy and awareness to different aspect of one's daily life.
