Four Pieces of Brocade The traditional exercises is the Eight Pieces of Brocade or the Ba Duan Jin. This routine…
Observing in Meditation There are many types of active meditations, where we want to acknowledge a part of the body…
Respond Like a Pond If we throw a boulder in the pond, we see a big splash and a boulder-like…
The Tree that Bends in the Storm When you are born, you are soft and happy.When you die, you are…
Taoist World View Taoists practice a close observation of the patterns within the natural world and how they ebb and…
Undoing Depending on our individual circumstances, our spiritual nature may not have been nurtured (by us or our environment) for…
Taoists on Health and Disease The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine is an ancient text and philosophy on health and…
Branches of Taoist Study Taoists describe Eight Classic Branches of Taoist study. Different writers describe these eight branches differently. Here…
Like The Little Stream Like the little stream Making its way Through the mossy crevices I, too, quietly Turn clear and transparent. -Ryōkan