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Articles from past issues
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Qigong and the Dreamtime by Francesco Garripoli
Francesco began by telling us a little about his recent journey
to the Australian outback, where he spent time with the local tribal people and learned a little about what they call the Dreamtime, the source of all being.
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by Hu Xuezhi
For many years, the English translation of the
Ox-Herding Chart of the Chan Sect of Buddhism has attacted
a great deal of interest and attention, and has been the subject of intensive study by Western readers.
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Chungliang Al Huang recently made a pilgrimage in search of his parent's ancestral homes and tombs in Fujian and Hainan provinces in China. What he found, after 60 years of exile was heartbreaking and encouraging at the same time.
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Daoism in America
A conversation with Xuan Yun (Mysterious Cloud), a qigong master
from Wudang Mountains, now living in the U.S.
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I get so busy sometimes that I feel I am crowding myself out
into the margins of my day. The ritual of tea returns me to the
center of the page. But rituals require constant adaptation,
or else they risk degenerating into something stagnant, empty,
and meaningless. If you over-focus on technique, rather than
on the tea, your heart will not be in it.
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Conduit or Container by Francesco Garripoli
To see yourself as a Container is to live in a world of limits and
scaricty. To see yourself as a Conduit is to live in a
world of abundance.
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Return To Stillness Is The Motion Of The Tao
by Robert Olson
Wuji to taji; taji to wuji is a basic Taoist concept that roughly
translates into: stillness to motion; motion to stillness. We
enter this world without a single thought, possessing only
untainted yuan shen, or pre-heave spirit.
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In China Taijiquan is now considered a Qi Gong
as well as a highly respected martial art.
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by Dr. Zhi Gang Sha
If you know a little about Taoism, you may have heard about its most important and essential teaching, which is jing chi shen xu tao. Many serious practitioners can study and practice Taoism for an entire lifetime without really understanding the wisdom and knowledge of jing chi shen xu tao. Let me reveal the secret now. Jing chi shen xu tao is matter, energy, and soul transformation.
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There is a Chinese saying, "Tian shang yi tian, ren jian bai nian 天上一天, 人間百年.” This means one day of Heaven is equal to one hundred years of a human being. The dimension of time is different between the spiritual world and the human being.
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Interview with Deng Ming Dao: author of The Chronicls of Tao
Deng Ming Dao is the author of the immensely popular
trilogy that begins with The Wandering Taoist and continues
through Seven Tables of the Cloudy Satcheland Gateway to
a Vast World. In it he tell the story of the life and training of Kwan Saihung in the Daoist arts of qigong, herbalism and martial arts., beginning from when he is a young boy up through when
he arrives in the Untied States and begins teaching here.
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The Zhuangzi equates perfect happiness and the ability to
establish right and wrongwith non-interference or wuwei.
The activities of the sky and the earth are utilized as the primary examples of the process of wuwei.
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Tracking the Dao by Kurt Levins Sr.
To those who are familiar with the road that some call Tao,
it is known that the road can be very twisty with many detours
and false roads that lead to dead ends. Many travelling Taoists
also know that the road is many times made easier under the guide
of a true master or at least a lao shi, an older one with
experience and knowledge.
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Taoist teachers come in many shapesand forms. There was
my first, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. a Chinese guy who
owned a fly by night construction company. Then the Chinese cook. Master Lein told me that Taoist teachers are always
around if we just open our eyes and ears to find them.
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When one first enters the world of the Tao it can
be very confusing. Whether it is through the classical study of
Taoism or the more popular means of studying a Taoist based
art such as Tai Ji, it can be a world full of confusing and
apparently contradictory information.
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Advice on the current Water Dragon Year for each
Chinese astrological sign.
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by Heiner Fruehauf, Ph.D., L.Ac.
This article is based on the conviction that the traditional art
of Oriental medicine is dying--both in mainland China, home
to the mother trunk of the field, and consequently overseas
where branches of the tree are trying to grow.
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by Jeff Nagel, MA, Lac
According to the ancient "keepers of the knowledge" from
the Taoist tradition, the evolutionary roots of Chinese
Wholistic Medicine came into being at least eight thousand years ago through the first two of the Eight Branches of the Tao Healing Arts.
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by Solala Towler
A short introduction to Inner Cultivation or yang sheng practices.
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This text was required of novices of many Daoist sects as
mandatory for not only study, but memorization and recitation
as well. Hence, the wisdom of the Yin Convergence Classic is as important to present day Daoists as it was to those in antiquity.
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Qigong or “Qi Exercises” describes a group of practices
highly popular in China and increasingly well known the West.
They involve slow, gentle body movements, breathing exercises,
self-massages, and the mental circulation of qi, with the aim to
open the body’s inner channels, provide a free flow of energy,
help in healing, and in general create a sense of greater
well-being and openness of spirit.
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The twentieth century has truly been a remarkable period
as far as the proliferation of the Asian (and non-Asian) martial
and healing arts are concerned.
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Bigu in Chinese History
Solala Towler
The practice of bigu (avoiding grains) or duangu (cutting one’s
self off from grains) — sometimes just avoiding grains and
sometimes not taking in food altogether — goes back
to ancient times in China.
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A feature length article on Western Daoism by Solala
Watch some short videos from Wudang Shan.
Coming soon, an interview with JiaYe, the old Daoist cave-dwelling hermit!
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