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Spring/Summer Living Tao Essential Tai Ji Series — Session Two
(June 2023)

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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 areas:
* Nature Bathing Meditations; (session two) The Six Healing Sounds or Liù Zì Jué (六字訣);
* Classics, Culture & Music; (session one) “The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
和平共处五项原则 Hépíng gòngchǔ wǔ xiàng yuánzé; (session two) QingMing (Pure Brightness)
Ancestral Tomb Sweeping Festival;
* Calligraphy & Metaphors; and
* Continued articulation & development of the Tai Ji Forms.

FOREST BATHING – MEDITATION
The Six Healing Sounds or Liù Zì Jué (六字訣)
治病的六字訣氣功

  – ‘deep sigh’ or ‘hiss’ – Level the Liver /Gall Qi [Yang]
臟:發「」音(需,XU),(治肝與膽的疾病)

  /ah- ‘yawn’ or open throat AH – Supplement the Heart and small intestine Qi [Yin]
臟:發「」音(喝,AH/HE),(治心與小腸的疾病)

  – ‘to sigh,’ ‘to exhale,’ or ‘to call’ – Cultivate [or Shore Up] the  Stomach, Spleen, Pancreas Qi [Yang]
臟:發「」音(忽,HU),(治脾與胃的疾病)

  – ‘to rest’ – Supplement the Lung/Large Intestine Qi [Yang]
臟:發「」音(四,SI),(治肺與大腸的疾病)

 chuī – ‘to blow out,’ ‘to blast,’ or ‘to puff’ – Supplement the Kidney/Bladder Qi [Yin]
臟:發「」音(炊,CHUI),(治腎與膀胱的疾病)

  – ‘mirthful’ – Regulate the Triple Burner/Triple Regulators and / Pericardium Qi [Yin]
:發「」音(西,XI ),(治三焦與心包的疾病)

 

DEEPENING PRACTICE

New variation of combined Centering/Balancing movement practice

GUI SHAN

BAO HU

Embrace Tiger 抱虎 (Bao Hu)—

Chen 沉(Sinking) Fu 浮(floating)

Ti 提(lifting) Piao 飄(riding the wind)

Fei 飛(take flight) Xiang 翔(soaring)

—Return To Mountain 歸 山(Gui Shan)

QingMing (Clear & Bright/Pure Brightness)
Ancestral Tomb Sweeping Festival

Image from “Quantum Soup” by Chungliang Al Huang

Han Suyin: The subject of the movie “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”

Brother David, Han Suyin, Chungliang

SUPPLEMENTAL REFERENCES

Music

  1. Luciano Pavarotti: Nessun Dorma from Turandot by Puccini
  2. Maria Callas: La mamma morta from Andrea Chenier by Giodanno
  3. S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor (Double Violin Corcerto): Largo ma non tanto, used in the movie “Children of a Lesser God”
  4. Nat King Cole:  “Let There Be Love” ❤️愛❤️
  5. Nat King Cole:  “Love is A Many Splendored Thing” , Oscar winning title song from the 1955 movie based on Han Suyin’s novel, “A Many Splendored Thing”
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