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Autumn Living Tao Essential Tai Ji Series — Session Two
(October 2024)

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Autumn Living Tao Essential Tai Ji Series — Session Two (October 2024)

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Master Huang’s teaching encourages a holistic approach to Body, Heart/Mind & Spirit 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:

* Classics, Culture & Music: (Session One: Tao Te Ching 道德經 (Dao De Jing) of Lao Zi 老子‘s 81 verses – Comparative translations); (Session One: Introduction to易經Yi Jing / I Ching Wisdom Book of Change and Transformation Hexagram One Qian, (Session Two: Tao Te Ching 道德經 (Dao De Jing) # 64) (Session  Two: 易經Yi Jing / I Ching Hexagram 24 – Fu) (Session Two: “Song of Ch’in”, Bach Cantate BWV 82, “Both Sides Now”);

* Related Calligraphy & Metaphors: (Session One: Jīn Huā/Golden Flower, Mǐ/Rice, Mí/Lost, Mí/Riddle, Jù Jīng, Yǎng Qì, Huì Shén, Xué Xí) (Session Two: Shou & Shen varied dynamics); and

* Continued Articulation & Development of the Tai Ji Forms.

REVIEW OF SUMMER SEMINAR / SEPTEMBER ONLINE SESSION CALLIGRAPHY

(see Study Materials from September 20204)

Golden Flower / Jīn Huā
Rice / Mǐ

VARIED DYNAMICS OF SHOU / HAND and SHEN / BODY

Shou / Hand            Shen / Body

TAO TE CHING 道德經 (DAO DE JING) #64
“A tree of a person’s embrace is wide, and grows out of a tiny shoot…”
合抱之木生於毫末

易經YI JING / I CHING WISDOM BOOK OF CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION
HEXAGRAM # 24 FU – Return or Turning Point

SUPPLEMENTAL REFERENCES

MUSIC:

  • Shanghai Quartet, “Song of the Ch’in” by Zhou Long—from Spirit Murmur CD (Alan Hovhaness)
  • Cantate BWV 82 – “Ich habe genug / It is enough”; Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Bass/Baritone
I CHING (YI JING) SOURCES:
  • I Ching, Translated and Edited by John Blofeld
  • The Original I Ching Oracle or The Book of Changes: The Eranos I Ching Project by Rudolf Ritsema (The Eranos I Ching is the ultimate product of fifty years of I Ching studies by Rudolf Ritsema and of ten years of experiential I Ching work in the Eranos Round Table in Ascona, Switzerland)
  • The Portable Dragon: Western Man’s Guide to the I Ching—by R.G.H. Siu (M.I.T.Press 1971)
TAO TE CHING (DAO DE JING) SOURCES:
  • Thus Spoke Laozi: Dao De Jing by Charles Wu (Foreign Language Teaching and Research Series, Beijing)
  • The Way of Life: According to Lao Tzu by Witter Bynner (Capricorn Books)
  • Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching: A Book about The Way and the Power of The Way— translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (Shambhala Pubications)

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