sillybearhappyhoneyeater Posted January 13, 2017 (edited) Hi all, I'm starting up a weekly instructional email series starting next week. It will be by email and every week there will be a document or section of a document from the Daoist Omnibus (usually the Nei Dan school, but also other meditation schools when appropriate), and an explanation of the meaning and how to practice. The goal of the program is to give a comprehensive synthetic approach to meditation, which is the way my own teacher taught me. The first month will consist of:  Week one: - An explanation of the "Embryonic Breathing Classic" from the Small Daoist Canon + notes. Week two: - The section on Qing and Xing (emotion and nature) from the small Daoist Canon. Week three: - Hundred Days Basic Training from "Da Cheng Jie Yao." week four: - Cultivating emptiness, from Wang Chongyang's ten discussions.  The second month will deal mainly with Da Cheng Jie Yao and "Three carts secret method."  anyone interested in taking the course can email me at [email protected]  It requires a donation to enter, but the donation is on a sliding scale so that people from different economic levels can all take benefit.  The suggestion is $30-50 per month, which is the same as taking a local meditation or taijiquan class in your city, so I hope you will think it is fair.  Anyone taking the course is welcome to send emails asking as many questions as they want and I will usually answer emails on the day I receive them.   A little background about myself:  I study with Yang Hai, who learned in Beijing and Tianjin with many different teachers. His first Nei Dan teacher was Cao Zhenyang at White Cloud Temple, but he also studied with Qian Feng Pai in Tianjin as well as meeting with and learning from many masters, some who were famous and some not so much.  He spend a long time collecting every known book on meditation in the Daoist Canon, and has read around 2000 documents in the Canon, as well as all of the Nei Dan documents.  After he passed down the method to me, I spent several years teaching myself to read Classical Chinese (with his help) and my teacher helped me explain many of the secret language of Nei Dan. I continue to practice meditation and read every day, and am most interested in the historical connection between early methods such as "embryonic breathing" to later methods such as "Nan Bei zong," "Zhong Pai," and modern methods such as Jiang Weiqiao's and the work of Chen yingning.  I am mainly teaching from the perspective of helping people understand early methods first, especially in regard to "embryonic breathing" and the documents in the small Daoist Canon.  This is to gradually work up to helping students read Understanding Reality and then Zhong Pai material.   My teaching method is based on the theoretical development that happened during Daoist history and is based on the premise that understanding how the theory of Nei Dan developed will help people master the most important concepts of the practice.   If you think you would like to study, please feel free to contact me.  Edited January 13, 2017 by sillybearhappyhoneyeater 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
