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"It is far superior to know that one does not know, as it is a sickness to confuse one's ignorance for knowledge.
Only when one becomes sick of this sickness will one cease to be sick."
Dao De Jing Ch.71
Excerpt from ‘Exercise Prescription in Sui China’ by Dolly Yang and Mugen Chiang
The following is an excerpt from ‘Exercise Prescription in Sui China’ which is very close to being published: Dr Dolly Yang’s translation of some 200 medieval daoyin exercises from China’s earliest book to classify and describe the nature of illness, Chao Yuanfang’s seventh century Zhubing yuanhou lun 諸病源候論 (Treatise on the Origins and Symptoms of…
Excerpt from An Archaeology of the Qiao Vessels by Will Ceurvels
In later commentaries, one often hears that identifying the right point is secondary to identifying the right channel in diagnosis and treatment (see, for instance, Yang Jizhou’s (楊繼洲) famous quote in the Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (針灸大成): “寧失其穴，勿失其經。 Getting the point wrong is preferable to getting the channel wrong.” But it is important…
初真戒 The Precepts of the Initial Truth
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Dragon Gate’s Core Methods: Qiu Chuji (excerpt)
Qiu Chuji (excerpt) From the introductory section of The Dragon Gate’s Core Methods Vol.1 (Longmen Xinfa), Purple Cloud Institute forthcoming: The following biography (excerpt) underscores the pivotal role Qiu Chuji played in the development of the Complete Reality School. The original Chinese script stems from the Ming Dynasty The Complete Biographies of the Ranks of…
Daoist Texts in Western Languages
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The Dragon Gate’s Core Methods: Intial Truth’s Preceptual Statutes (excerpt)
Intial Truth’s Preceptual Statutes (excerpt) 天尊曰：三皈依戒者，天地之樞紐，神仙之根基，發行之初門，建心之元兆。運氣含靈，冥真入理，包羅有象，朕形无外。持之者，天地神明慶快，心智耳目開張，萬物敬畏，六腑和樂，眾真衛護羣生，父母長世不遺，人身交泰。 The heavenly worthies said: ‘The precepts of the three refuges are the pivot of the heavens and earth, the foundation of spirit immortality, the initial gateway for developing one’s practice, and the primordial starting point for establishing one’s mind. They circulate qi in those who contain the divine, coincide…