Archive for June 2021
Training the Heart to Be in Harmony
Training the Heart to Be in Harmony The following is a guest post by David Hessler, long-term student of Master Meng Zhiling, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Daoist Association and an accomplished practitioner in Daoist personal cultivation. David hopes to bring Master Meng back to the United States in the summer of 2022. He will…
Read MoreThe 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao: Barrier 2
The 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao: Barrier 2 This is the 2nd of 49 Barriers from ‘The 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao” (available here: https://purplecloudinstitute.com/product/the-49-barriers-of-cultivating-the-dao/ ) to be posted online in their entirety. The book also features extensive endnotes as well as hundreds of pages of commentary by Daoist renunciate Li Shifu (abbot…
Read MorePurple Cloud Podcast #29 Cheng Feng: Daoist Music Healing and the Five Healing Tones
In this episode we talk again to Cheng Feng, this time about musical healing in the Chinese medical and Daoist traditions. We discuss how music can be used to both heal and harm, and the benefits of chanting the Dao De Jing. We also delve into how the 5 tones outlined in the Huang Di…
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