15 November 2019
Li is the grain in wood or jade. Li is the reason why a willow leaning over a stream relaxes the mind and a city street, even when quiet, does not. Li is the principle of organic order as distinct from mechanical or legal order that go by the book. Li is asymmetrical, un-repetitive, it […]
15 November 2019
Wu Wei has often been translated to mean something like Not Doing, or Doing By Not Doing. It implies somehow, achievement by doing nothing. The ultimate Wu Wei would be to travel upstream when the tide was coming in, and return downstream when the tide was going out. In Kung Fu it might be to […]
15 November 2019
This is not a repetition of what is written elsewhere. Check out the article on Chi. This is about how to develop Chi. When we simply refer to the Dan Tien we generally mean the lower (or Xia) Dan Tien. It is the centre for physical Chi or Jing, the animal energy that drives our […]
15 November 2019
The power through which the Tao is made manifest or is actualised. Or, the virtue or power inherent in a person or thing existing in harmony with the Tao Te is often translated in many different ways by many different translators and often the word used by the same author will be translated differently according […]
15 November 2019
Lao Tzu defined contentment as the only measure by which we should gauge both personal success and the filter through which society’s values should be passed. By the simple test of considering how conducive anything is to promoting contentment one can evaluate its usefulness. On this basis he judges some impulses to be dysfunctional, like […]