We have some great seminars coming to the Taoist Sanctuary this winter and spring, and one has been extended due to its popularity!

Happy New Year, everyone! We are rushing toward the launch of 2015, and it’s that time of year when people make resolutions. Well, some people, anyway. I have never been much for resolutions based on the changing of the calendar year, but I do like to consider things from a cyclical perspective.

As we lifted up and out of China, headed toward Seoul then LAX, I took the time to reflect on what may be my last trip to China. I have said this before – “I’m never going back” sometimes punctuated with several exclamation points. I have always returned, but this time the sentiment comes from a different place.

One might presume that a Taoist priest living in Louguantai is an evolved spiritual being. This would be a fair assumption, given that people come here to live and study Taoism, which teaches love, kindness and compassion.

What enriches your taiji practice? Is it your environment? Or is it within?

I used to feel a strong pull to travel to Chenjiagou and do taiji in the birthplace of taiji, where I could absorb the ancestral qi of the Chen family.

Tao Te Ching #38 discusses the progression toward the Tao through the levels of morality, righteousness, love and kindness, and Te . To apply this philosophy to taiji practice is useful, especially when attempting to apply the principles of taiji to daily life.