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Daoist Medicine II: 道医六个一 Daoist Medicine’s Six Ones 一碗水 One Bowl of Water (excerpt)
Daoist Medicine II: 道医六个一 Daoist Medicine’s Six Ones ______________________________________________ （二）一碗水 （2）One Bowl of Water (excerpt) _____________________ The 《Dao De Jing》 praises water highly, in Catholicism the baptism utilizes water, and the native Americans tribes’ boiling of herbs cannot be separated from ritualistic water [1]. The reason is that the nature of water is very close…
Read MoreSaints & Sages Part V: 王善人 Wang, the Benevolent
Saints & Sages Part V: 王善人 Wang, the Benevolent ______________________________________________ Who was Wang Feng Yi 王鳳儀? What are the underlying principles of his healing system which emphasizes that all diseases spring forth from the Heart-Mind? Could he rightfully be called the inventor of Chinese psychology as an equivalent to Western psychology? The following is the…
Read MoreBodhisattva Guan Shi Yin’s Attainment of Buddhahood 觀世音菩薩成佛
觀世音菩薩成佛 Bodhisattva Guan Shi Yin’s Attainment of Buddhahood _______________________________________________ On the19th day of the sixth lunar month Guan Shi Yin’s or Avalokiteshvara’s attainment of Buddhahood is celebrated. Guan Shi Yin, or literally the “Observer of the Cries of the World” is considered to be the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Original a male deity in Buddhism, called…
Read MoreSaints & Sages Part IV: 李白 The Sage Poet Li Bai
Saints & Sages Part IV: 李白 The Sage Poet Li Bai ______________________________________________ Even though the genius poet Li Bai technically speaking is not a sage or saint, he is deserving of the title as “sage” poet. Li Bai formally became a Taoist, after ending his career at court. This fascination with Daoism, internal alchemy,…
Read MoreDaoist Teachings- Daoist Family 道教-道家
道教-道家 Daoist Teachings- Daoist Family _______________________________________________ Before its religious and monastic organisation Daoism was called what could be loosely translated as the Daoist Family [dao jia道家] or the Cultivation of the Dao [xue dao学道]. It could be claimed that the “philosophical” aspect of Daoism already existed, after Lao Zi left riding on the back of…
Read MoreDaoist Medicine I: 道医六个一 Daoist Medicine’s Six Ones
Daoist Medicine I: 道医六个一 Daoist Medicine’s Six Ones ______________________________________________ Daoist medicine is characterised by “Six Items”, referred to as Six-Ones. This post is about its first item: （一）一根/株/炉香 (1) One Stick of Incense ———————————— 通天达地。 [One is able to] connecting with Heaven and communicating with Earth [through incense]. Incense expels epidemics and evils [bi wen…
Read MoreCivil Song & Martial Song Festival 文曲武曲節
JULY, 3rd: 文曲武曲節 Civil Song & Martial Song Festival ______________________________________________ The first day of the sixth lunar month, which is the New Moon, is celebrated as Daoist festival in veneration of two stars, Civil Song [文曲] and Martial Song [武曲] of the Big Dipper [bei dou北斗] . They represent the patron stars for scholars and…
Read MoreSaints & Sages Part III: 锺离权 & 吕洞宾 Zhong Li Quan & Lü Dong Bin
Saints & Sages Part III: 锺离权 & 吕洞宾 Zhong Li Quan & Lü Dong Bin ______________________________________________ 吕洞宾年满二十，不娶妻室。当他还是婴儿的时候，马祖看到他说：“这孩子体貌骨相不同凡人，将来定是遨游世外的人。以后‘遇庐则居，见锺则扣’，留心记住这两句话。”（“庐”暗指庐山，“锺”暗指锺离权，即云房先生）以后，洞宾游庐山遇到火龙真人，传授他天遁剑法。 When Lü Dong Bin reached twenty years of age, he had not taken a wife. When he was still an infant, Ancestor Ma saw him and uttered: “This child’s appearance and bones are unlike a common person; in…
Read MoreAbstention from Grains [part 3] 辟谷
The following post is collated from notes from several Internal Alchemy courses at Five Immortals Temple lectured and lead by the abbot Li Shifu [Xing De]. Any mistakes or misrepresentations are entirely my own: 辟谷 Abstention from Grains [part 3] ______________________________________________ Science claims that after seven to eight days without food and water, life comes…
Read MoreAlchemical Classics I: 大成捷要 [柳華陽] The Essentials of the Shortcut to the Great Achievement by Liu Hua Yang
Alchemical Classics I: 大成捷要 [柳華陽] The Essentials of the Shortcut to the Great Achievement by Liu Hua Yang —————————————————————————— Liu Hua Yang together with Wu Shou Yang [伍守阳] make up the so-called Wu-Liu School with its main focus on Internal Alchemy [nei dan 內丹]. The former is also the author of the Scripture of Wisdom…
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