Autumn 2020 Living Tao Tai Ji Study Series — Session Three
(November 2020)
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Enhancing the essential Living Tao movement form practice with the exploration of Taoist philosophy and potent Poetic and visual imageries 詩情畫意 from selected passages of Tao Te Ching, Xin Xin Ming, I Ching/Ba Gua, and the Oxherding Pictures.
TAO TE CHING (DAO DE JING)
Verse 16: Lao Tsu Tao Te Ching
Verse 17: Tao of Leadership poster
Leaders are best when people scarcely know they exist
Not so good when people obey and acclaim them
Worst when people despise them
Fail to honor people they fail to honor you
But of good leaders who talk little
When their work is done, task fulfilled
People will all say: We have done this ourselves！—百姓皆謂我自然
I CHING (YI JING)
Images from Quantum Soup*
FOR FUTURE STUDY: OXHERDING PICTURES Study Source: Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain*
In honor of Joseph Campbell – Hero’s Journey To Be Continued!
POETRY/ PAINTING / ART / NATURE
ZhongsenChen’s Shan Shui Qing 山水情(Landscape Emotion) Exhibition Catalogue Cover
Zhongsen Chen’s Landscape (Mountain/Water paintings) [Shān Shuǐ Shī Huà]
Zì Rán -“Self so-ness” (Alan Watts)
MORE FUTURE STUDY: XIN XIN MING*
ON THE STORK TOWER 登鹳雀楼
By Tang Dynasty poet, Wang Zhi Huan [唐].王之渙
《登鸛雀樓》
白日依山盡，黃河入海流。
欲窮千里目，更上一層樓。
The bright sun leans over the hill to set on wider horizon
Yellow River flows to merge into the Immense ocean
To extend and expand the view beyond a thousand miles
Rise up to a higher pavilion to further widening visions
Dēng Guànquè Lóu
[ascend] [stork] [sparrow] [tower]
Climbing White Stork Tower
⽩白⽇日依⼭山盡，Bái rì yī shān jìn, [white] [sun] [on] [mountain] [finish]
The white sun sets behind the mountains,
黃河入海海流；Huánghé rù hǎiliú; [Yellow] [River] [enter] [sea] [flow]
and the Yellow River flows into the sea.
欲窮千⾥里里⽬目，yù qióng qiānlǐ mù, [want] [furthest] [thousand] [mile] [eye]
To see a thousand mile view,
更更上⼀一層樓樓。gèng shàng yì céng lóu. [more] [ascend] [one] [floor] [tower]
go up another floor.
*REFERENCES
Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain: The Essence of Tai Ji – Chungliang Al Huang – ISBN 978 1 84819 052 8
Quantum Soup: Fortune Cookies in Crisis – Chungliang Al Huang – ISBN 978 1 84819 054 2
Thus Spoke Laozi: A Translation with Commentaries of Daodejing – Charles Q. Wu – Beijing University Press (link)
Lao Tsu Tao Te Ching – Translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English – Original ISBN 0-394-71833-XVintage ISBN 0-679-77619-2
Lao Zi: The Book of Tao and Teh, Translated by Gu Zhengku – Peking(Beijing)University Press – ISBN 7-301-02815-6
Koyanisqatsi (Life Out of Balance) –Film and Music – Philip Glass
Xin Xin Ming Source: Trust In Mind, Mu Soeng – ISBN 0-86171-391-5
