A Primary Force

A Primary Force

Taoism, Tao of Sex, Taoist Meditation

Sex is a primary force inside all human beings. If that force is not well-expressed in a smooth and balanced way, it can distort a lot of the physical, mental, and emotional processes within people. When the natural flow of life – specifically in the form of sex...
Maintaining Awareness

Maintaining Awareness

Tai Chi, Taoism, Taoist Meditation

Your ability to feel and control energy depends on maintaining continuous internal awareness inside your body. Without some minimal level of continuous inner awareness, you cannot focus long enough on your movements or energy flows to gain most of the wonderful...
Notes from Beijing: Pollution, Building and Freedom

Notes from Beijing: Pollution, Building and Freedom

Taoism, Travels

One astonishing sight is the pollution.  Yesterday the sky was a nasty shade of grey, and you could barely see the sun through the soup.  Yet I was told that it wasn’t that bad.   Apparently there is “bad”, “very bad” and then there is “crazy bad”.   The U.S. Embassy...
Updates from China: Lao Tse and Modern Values

Updates from China: Lao Tse and Modern Values

Taoism, Travels

The young man mentioned that it seemed as if foreigners are more interested and knowledgeable about old Chinese culture than most Chinese. He commented that nowadays, many of the youth are driven by money and consumerism, leaving behind culture and human values. The...

Digging Wells or Dabbling

Tai Chi, Taoism

I can speak from my experience about what the traditional approach is and the eclectic way I went about it, and the essential difference between an eclectic traditional approach and the approach of the dabbler, who just knows a bit of this and a bit of that. The first...

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