Master Huang’s teaching encourages a holistic approach to Body, Heart/Mind & Spirit practice and study through the practice of Living Tao philosophy, metaphors, and forms.
Over the course of this Series, Master Huang will introduce new material in the following practice areas:
* Nature Bathing Meditations using Poetry;
* Classics, Culture & Music; “The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence”
和平共处五项原则 Hépíng gòngchǔ wǔ xiàng yuánzé
* Calligraphy & Metaphors. and
* Continued articulation & development of the Tai Ji Forms.

FOREST BATHING – MEDITATIVE POETRY

Some Poetry to remember and review

Rainer Maria Rilke: “I Live My Life in expanding circles…”

Antonio Machado: “Last night as I was sleeping…marvelous illusion”

C.P.Cavafy: “Ithaca” and “Waiting for the Barbarians”.

Pablo Neruda: “Poetry”: “And it was at that age…Poetry arrived in search of me.”

T.S.Eliot: “Four Quartets”:
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

Lawrence Ferlingetti: “How to paint sunlight”.

Also, Gary Snyder, Robert Bly…., and don’t forget James Broughton, the “High Kuku” poet: “Of course I am infinite, says a grain of sand…”

DEEPENING PRACTICE

Circle MOTIFS

掤捋擠按 Peng Lu Ji An
Dan Bian 單鞭 Single Whip

Ai / Love & Xin / Heart-Mind

“Wo Ai Ni” 我愛你 “Wo De Jia” 我的家 “Wo De Jia” 我的家 “Wo De Tian Tang” 我的天堂”。

I love you, my home, my home.  I love my heavenly home.

Five Principles Of Peace – Zhou Enlai Peace Institute

1) Mutual respect for each nation’s territorial integrity and sovereignty
2) Mutual non-aggression
3) Mutual non-interference in each other’s internal affairs
4) Equality and mutual benefit
5) Peaceful co-existence

Photo by Si Chi Ko

Calligraphy: Nothingness / The Void
Poetry By Song Dynasty Poet 朱熹Chu Hsi Zhu Xi (1130-1200 AD)
Wu 無 VOID-Emptiness–NoThing 

The mirror of the pond gleams
Reflecting the splendor of the sky and the whiteness of the clouds
I asked the pond: where I can find anything as pure and transparent
The answer: only in the springs of the water of life 

1^st Circle MOTIFS

Bai He Liang Chi 白鹤亮翅 White Crane Spreads (flashes) Wings
Shou Hui Pi Pa 手揮琵琶 Hand Strumming or Plucking Pi Pa

Joan Baez & Chungliang at Esalen 50th Anniversity Celebration

SUPPLEMENTAL REFERENCES

Music

1. Shirley Horn – Here’s To Life (Verve Records 1992)
2. Let The World Be Filled With Love 让世界充满爱
3. Mongolian 蒙古人- Teng Ge Er 騰格爾”Tian Tang” 天堂
   Song Heaven on the album Dream by Tengger
4. Gracias A La Vida  from Joan Baez: “Diamonds In Rust In The Bullring”  DISKY-VI 886162

Five Principles of Peace

1. Dance of the Five Principles of Peace dedicated to Zhou Enlai created By Huang Chung-Liang
2. The Five Principles of Peace first written by Premier Zhou Enlai of China December 31, 1953
3. Huang Chungliang, Peoples Congress Video