Winter 2021 Living Tao Tai Ji Study Series — Session Two
(February 2021)
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Warm-up with Essential Tai Ji. Celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year 4719 of the Golden OX
金牛, explore the “Heroic Journey” from the “Ten Oxherding Pictures” 十牛圖 (prepare by reviewing the “Zen Ox Pictures” chapter in Embrace Tiger Return to Mountain). Dissect the Chinese symbol of JIE 解 Deliverance (Hexagram #40) from 莊子 Zhuang Zi’s (Chuang Tsu) Inner Chapter “yang sheng zhu” 養生主 “Caring for Life” through the story of how cook Ding carves an ox. Music and dance.
HAPPY CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR!
祝福 金牛年快樂 幸福吉祥 萬事如意!
Ten Oxherding Pictures, Version One (aka “the whitening of the ox”)
Ten Oxherding Pictures, Version Two
“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…”
T.S. Eliot – Four Quartets, Little Gidding*
Books Discussed:
Joseph Campbell – Hero With A Thousand Faces*
Dorothy Norman – The Heroic Encounter*
Chungliang Al Huang – Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain*
Honoring Friends
Reference: I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change*
Prince Wen Hui’s cook. The Fable of Cook Ding
Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters*
Hexagram #40 Symbol
Hexagram #40 Symbol
Thunder/arousing (Zhen) above
Water/abyss (Kan) below
*References
The Chinese Book of Animal Powers
Chungliang Al Huang
ISBN 0-06-027728-9 / ISBN 0-06-027729-7
Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot
A Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc.1971 (original 1943)
ISBN 978-0-15-633225-5
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
ISBN 978-1-57731-593-3
The Heroic Encounter
Dorothy Norman
Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain: The Essence of Tai Ji
Chungliang Al Huang
ISBN 978 1 84819 052 8
I Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change: The first Complete Translation with Concordance
Translated by Rudolf Ritsema and Stephen Karcher
ISBN 10: 1852306696 / ISBN 13: 9781852306694
Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
Gia Fu Feng and Jane English
ISBN-13: 978-0872205819 / ISBN-10: 0872205819
Dictionary Definitions:
| 解 | jiě | to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection |