Primordial Tai Chi is a bridge between the cosmic infinite Self and our physical finite self. This form is a magical, powerful 800 year old lineage ceremony. Integrates the magic square of feng shui, the dynamic inner water & fire coupling of Taoist alchemy, the healing benefits of medical qigong, and the earthly transmission power of China’s original tai chi form!
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Fall 2017 Schedule of Tao Events in Asheville, N.C
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1. Nov. 18-19: Primordial Tai Chi for Enlightened Self-Love. Amazing spiritual tai chi form, easy to learn and practice.
If you’re practicing from DVD, live attendance gives Instructor Certification.
2. Dec. 9-10: Medical & Spiritual Qigong Fundamentals 3 & 4: Internal Qi Breathing & Bone Rooting – prevent or heal chronic illness and clear ancestral issues
3. Dec. 23: Sat. 7:30 pm. Winter Solstice Black Dragon Ceremony (free): “Go Within to Rebirth”. With Crystal Bowl concert by Malana Riverah
FEEL FREE TO REPLY – I LOVE HEARING FROM YOU!
Dear Lovers of Bringing Light to the Darkest Corners of Self,
I’ve been threatening for several years to publish a book on Primordial Tai Chi, aka Wu Ji Gong, or Primordial Qigong, But as I dug deeper into the Tao cosmology underlying this amazing 12th century form from Wudang Mountain, I came up with new riches. Now I’ve invested eight years writing it, with some long pauses to raise a child — who was conceived immediately after doing a Primordial Tai Chi ceremony calling him in.
As the book grew in depth and length, it became clear I was using this 800 year old “cosmological qigong” ceremony as a spring board to explore the wider field of Taoist inner alchemy and to better understand all Taoist paths. They all share a Taoist Qi-based cosmology, embodied with a magical profundity in Wu Ji Gong.
But there are many variants of Tao cosmology, and hence a lot of confusion and vagueness in people’s understanding of their relationship to “what is Tao?” or to Qi itself. We have to overcome heavy cultural filters: how does Qi relate to western values like love?
Writing this book inspired me to map out what I feel is a clear multi-dimensional relationship between three different kinds of Qi and parallel kinds of Love. Pure (divine) Love, Unconditional (soul) Love, and Conditional (personality) Love match up with Original Qi, Pre-natal Qi, and Post-natal Qi. “Enlightened Self-Love” is my name for the integration of these three kinds of love and corresponding Qi from three Taoist Heavens.
I’ve re-structured the 26 draft chapters I’ve written so far into five sections, which I’ve re-named: 5 Bamboo Scrolls. The table of contents of those five scrolls are published below in this newsletter.
This Tao inner alchemy transmission in 5 Bamboo Scrolls is a digital nod to the bamboo slats tied together to make scroll-books 2500 years ago in ancient China. It’s why Chinese is still read vertically. Westerners scroll vertically to read an eBook, even as our alphabet eyes scan horizontally.
L: Vertical pictographic writing on bamboo slats. R: Bamboo slats tied together with thread to make a scroll-book.
All five Bamboo Scrolls still use Primordial Tai Chi for Enlightened Self-Love as their reference point. That keeps all the cosmological theory about Qi grounded and in the context of an embodied, physical movement practice. For support materials, until the individual Bamboo Scrolls are published:
1. Introduction to Primordial Tai Chi: Way of Enlightened Self-Love (Bamboo Scroll #1 – downloadable 50 page PDF):
2. 5 Bamboo Scrolls: Table of Contents of all 26 chapters: https://healingtaousa.com/articles/primordial-tai-chi-way-of-enlightened-self-love/
I hope to publish Bamboo Scroll #1 by the end of this year 2017. I’m currently adding a new final chapter. It covers the Dark Side of the Tao and the issue of Evil Qi. A number of Wu Ji Gong adepts have told me they used the ceremony to neutralize Evil forces that was interfering in their lives.
I’ve met lot of modern spiritual seekers who don’t believe Evil exists. Their thinking is influenced by modern scientific theory of randomness. Bad things happen by chance, or have knowable specific material causes. New agers and Hindu-influenced yoga crowd may accept that evil events are caused by pre-destined “bad” karma. But many deny evil exists, or consider Evil is a product of the paranoid religious imagination of Fundamentalists. Satan is a cartoon-like myth projected from a Jungian collective unconscious.
Is Evil Qi Real?
I accept the reality of Evil Qi. That’s because I’ve experienced “an attack by the Dark Side” and struggled to rid my Energy Body of its presence. I took it as a strong indication of my spiritual progress towards merging with Source of Tao that Dark Forces felt the need to attack me. They didn’t want my spiritual work to spread. This attack lasted 18 months – the longest months of my life, truly exhausting.
The problem is that Evil Qi does not come from without; that is easy to identify and defend. When the feeling of Evil comes from within ourself, from a higher dimension than our personality, then it much more difficult. That’s becuase we hold the Dark and Light sides within us, it is part of our greater Self-creation. It means we have to shift to the Greater level to dissolve the Evil Qi blockage.
Love & Sex, Evil & Death, Everyday Human Tao. (Bamboo Scroll #1, Ch. 5)
Chapter Five
Love & Sex,
Evil & Death,
Light & Dark Qi,
Everyday Human Tao.
Taoists harmonize human Qi with Nature Qi by marrying their micro-cosmos (personal Energy Body) with the macro-cosmos (Nature’s Energy Body) using Qi cultivation methods. This marriage opens the portal for both to return to the proto-cosmos, to Origin.
Return means consciously restoring our original Qi vibration to its primacy in our physical present moment. It’s an inner-worldly, not an other-worldly quest. Origin is an expanding space of pure cosmic Self-love buried within our dense physical body.
In simple language, Taoists view Human love as the key link between Heaven and Earth. Humanity is their child. We have an important job: to teach our parents Heaven and Earth how to love each other in new creative Ways. A key part of that process is harmonizing the Yin/Dark and Yang/Light aspects of our self.
The hard part is when a being uses Yin Qi to contract, then mis-uses its Free Will to stay contracted. It is MIS-use because it violates the natural cyclical expansion as Yang Qi. This “anti-flow” of stuck Yin Qi is what we call Evil. Evil Qi fuels desire to have power over others. It feeds off violence, injustice, and struggle created by extreme polarities like hatred. Evil Qi opposes the unfolding of “de”, seed of natural virtue and integrity of the Tao gifted to every human soul.
Evil Qi has its own virtue: it helps intensify our awareness of Good Qi and apprreciate the natural flow of the Life Force. This is why Taoists commonly hold the view of non-judgement: this world is neither good nor evil, it just IS itself, which includes all polarities.
This is very challenging when one is actively confronted with what feels like Evil Qi. To feel the Self-love inherent within Tao for all that is created – including the dark side using its Free Will to create evil – requires us to open our hearts wider and deeper. Our personality lives in a physical world with hard-edges. These edges challenge us to focus our love and defend our chosen boundaries.
In sharp contrast to our personality, Qi freely crosses all boundaries. Qi fuels an ultra-creative cosmos made of ever-changing realities – with soft boundaries. Taoism is famous for its principle of yield to the soft espoused in the Tao Te Ching. Loving the continuum of Qi flowing between finite physical and infinite subtle is key to completing our mission as humans.
My personal experience is that our cosmos’ flowing sense of Self radiates in all directions and dimensions from a core impersonal ocean of Pure Love Qi. Taoists call this Tai Yi, The Great Oneness. It’s function is that of a Central Sun radiating from within, illuminating all levels of manifestation with its light and love.
This ocean of Pure Love Qi is traditionally called the Original Breath of the Tao, or Yuan Qi. It is so subtle, so ultra-fine in its high vibration, and so omni-present that our slowly vibrating sensory personality cannot easily grasp its Presence. It’s hard to fit it into our “normal” and limited reality. It is much easier for us to notice locally where this universal Pure Love Qi is NOT flowing, i.e. temporarily stagnant False Yin Qi or wilfully frozen or blocked Evil Qi.
The leap from personality’s self-love to cosmic Self-love is a life long journey. Our personal Energy Body must develop great flexibility, and learn to embrace wildly different realities if we are to escape the illusion of being stuck in a tiny physical body. Trapped within us may be contracted patterns of False Yin or its extreme, Evil Qi.
The process of Self-loving is one of a sleepy human child awakening and growing up to become a luminous Inner Sage able to love ourself equally at all levels: lesser self (micro-cosmos), greater Self (macro-cosmos). and original Self (proto-cosmos).
Embrace Light & Shadow Sides of Cosmos
This chapter explores key polarities likely to arise on anyone’s life path. My intent is to bring the shadow and light sides of Primordial Tao cosmology into clear focus. This saves us from chasing after the naive ideal that any increase in Qi flow is good. Westerners are vulnerable to believing that bigger is better.
Our economic and scientific thinking favors quantitative outcomes: “if a little more Qi is good for me, a lot more Qi will be even better”. We must instead shift to embracing a qualitative balance between the real forces and hidden counter-forces at play in our bodies and lives.
The Taoist approach requires cooking together the Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Beautiful into one Qi soup. Getting these polarities to transform by merging half-way into each other – an alchemical-sexual act of love – is one of the highest and most profound Ways ofChange.
1. LOVE vs. POWER. Is our core belief in a world run by love or power? We can choose to believe in a sphere-archy of love-arising-from-within, OR a top-down pyramid-of-power cosmology. I propose the former, with three love types: Original Qi = Divine or Pure Love, as highest cultural values of East and West.
Pure Love births two offspring: our soul’s Un-conditional Love, and personality‘s Conditional Love.
Pure Love is the true neutral ground of the Tao, onto which temporary Yin-Yang power struggles are projected or acted out. I offer a Tao Love Cosmology diagram that mirrors the sacred geometry embedded within the movement shape of Primordial Tai Chi for Enlightened Self-love.
2. SEX: BATTLE or DANCE? Taoist Yin-Yang Theory is a sexual theory. Nature – the matrix of Space, Time & Beings – arises from the sexual copulation of polar forces. True Yin & True Yang Qi are having non-stop sex. Original Qi lubricates their process of birthing increasingly complex patterns of polarity into events known as Creation.
Humans were originally androgynous in the astral plane, but suffered a “Fall” when they split into separate male and female physical bodies. This caused the Original Qi binding True Yin & Yang Qi in humans to be scattered in the physical plane. Healing the sexual trauma of male-female division from this Fall is the most direct path to resurrecting the integrity of Humankind.
This requires shifting the old male-female sexual battle-of-opposites into a dance-of-complementary-polarities. I share my personal journey through “five rings” of sex and love.
3. SHADOW vs. LIGHT. Good and Evil, Joy and Suffering, Love and Hate, Heaven and Hell are major Yin-Yang Qi patterns in Creation. These polar patterns may manifest as struggle at different macro-cosmic frequencies of Qi:
a. over soul/stellar – collective karmic
b. planetary – archetypal
c. blood line – ancestral
d. geomantic – earth grid/feng shui
e. human culture – social/political
f. individual – biological/psychological
Patterns of resistance are spread across this entire spectrum of manifesting consciousness. They are micro-cosmically embedded as unique patterns within every human’s personal Energy Body (soul vessel). One Cloud’s 9 Inner Alchemy Formulas offer a practical roadmap to progressively resolve these polarities (see Appendix).
These Yin-Yang Qi patterns create what is popularly known as our personal shadow and light sides. Shadow patterns hidden in our subconscious are difficult to manage. Confusion and feelings of “stuck-ness” are common. This is multiplied and obscured by habitual False Yin and False Yang Qi patterns.
Theories of Evil Qi are discussed. If evil is real, where does it originate? Can Evil Qi’s polar relation to Good Qi be resolved? Or does an essentially “good universe” require an opposing evil force in order for good to be clearly defined? Why Pure Love has no polarity.
4. HARMONY vs. STRUGGLE. Attempts to cause Yin or Yang to triumph over the other may be useful as a learning experience, but any dominance is temporary. Yin-Yang Qi is a single unified energy with bi-polar fluctuations that spin continuously around a monopolar axis of Yuan Qi. Yin-Yang is not a duality or battle between two separate forces with a clear winner.
All change is a process of Qi flowing in harmony or disharmony (struggle) between Yin-Yang poles. Change unfolds within a spiral of continuous and seemingly infinite events, whose totality is called Creation. Human life is an opportunity to get the “Yin-Yang players” buried deep within our psyche (and the cosmic psyche) to come out into the open and learn to dance gracefully with each other.
Failure to achieve harmony produces wars on Earth and in Heaven. Struggle – including all violence, illness, and warfare – is simply an indicator of an inefficient process of change. Struggle is the default option until we learn how to dance more effortlessly. Evolution serves the whole.
The agenda of the strongest must harmonize with the weakest or cosmic process will ultimately be undermined. The weak link will cause its failure, unless we embrace strong—weak as a single steady cycle of Nature. Can we choose diplomacy over war? The highest level of Taoist harmony is wu wei, spontaneous and effortless change, as it most directly expresses the Tao.
5. DESTINY: CONTROL IT vs. SURRENDER TO IT? How do we create a path of highest human destiny, worldly and spiritual? De is the golden nugget of Free Will given to each being. Realization of “de” – our mission, the gift of authenticity from Origin — is best supported by reducing shadow-side resistance to the natural unfolding of our personal de.
One highly effective alchemical strategy to reduce shadow side resistance is to grow the neutral, non-polar third force of Original Qi or Pure Love Qi. Yuan Qi acts as a super-lubricant to harmonize the creative flow of Yin-Yang Qi circulating between Origin and Creation. Increasing the flow of neutral Qi allows us to more easily move around the boulders of resistance embedded in the cosmic stream of Qi.
Struggling to destroy or kill our Resistance is a waste of Qi. It cannot be killed, only transformed. Better to bring it into the light of Pure Love and engage it productively. This accelerates the healing of Humankind from its “Fall” into horizontally split male-female bodies, as well as the vertical split between spirit-matter. This vertical split causes feelings of separation on earth. It originates at the over soul level, but can be healed by humans choosing to return to Origin.
Highest worldly destiny (ming) is our process of bringing Yin-Yang Qi into manifest Harmony. Highest spiritual destiny (xing) is getting Yin-Yang Qi to return to its original Unity state of Yuan Jing-Qi-Shen. Worldly and spiritual destiny are equally important to our evolution. But cultivating Harmony and Unity are different processes; Harmony moves Qi outward, Unity moves Qi inward. They create a synergy that strengthens each other.
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6. DEATH: LIBERATION or DARK SIDE TRAP?
Taoist classic texts never mention reincarnation. But Tao tradition of immortality suggests an afterlife exists for those who cultivate Qi to a high level. Believers in reincarnation usually fail to distinguish between “soul reincarnation” vs. “recycling of personality fragments” (the 12 organ memories) in the afterlife.
Are life & death a polarity? What happens to our Free Will at the moment of death? How can we avoid dark side manipulation in the astral plane after death? Is there a Taoist hell for evil-doers?
“Big Picture” Question: Can Wu Ji Gong help resolve these major light-shadow side issues.
Short Answer: Primordial Tai Chi for Enlightened Self-Love is a very accessible sacred movement ritual. It alchemically builds Yuan Qi within our Personal Energy Body and aligns us with the Cosmic Energy Body. Done repeatedly, the ritual can accelerate different levels of healing, personal destiny, and prepare us for our death transition.
Wu Ji Gong brings shadow side elements into conscious embrace with our light side. It thus supports the evolution of Humankind to a higher level of harmony and love. That is quite a powerful package of benefits!
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Primordial Tai Chi Nov. 18-19 in Asheville NC
Primordial Tai Chi for Enlightened Love
Nov. 18-19, 2017 (Sat/Sun): Asheville, N.C.
Sat 9-6; Sun 9:30 am – 6 pm.
a.k.a. PRIMORDIAL QIGONG, WU JI GONG
with Feldenkrais for Effortless Super Learning of body movement arts.
Taught by Michael Winn, plus recorded guidance by Joyce Gayheart.
We gather the directional chi of Heaven and Earth in graceful spirals. This is one of my favorite forms, but requires deeper commitment (15 min. practice length). Combined with Feldenkrais, it opens up many levels of healing energy and ease of movement amazingly quickly.
I go far beyond the DVD during this class, revealing many things about the inner structure of the form, and how to intensify it with toning and focused intention.
For more about the form, and numerous testimonials about how amazing the form is, please see http://www.taichi-enlightenment.com
Location:: Asheville Training Center, 261 Ashland Ave., Asheville NC. 2 long blocks south of downtown and Patton Ave. Enter alley behind Town & Mountain Realty. Lots of free parking. http://ashevilletrainingcenter.com/directions.html
Note: The course is the certification course for Primordial QiGong/Tai Chi. You receive a teaching certificate from Healing Tao University. Those seeking certification should have been practicing the form well in advance, if only from a DVD.
Mantak Chia learned this form from me on a China Dream Trip, and loved it! He has made it a part of his official UHT curriculum, as has the Healing Tao Instructors Association (HTIA). You can use this course as hours towards becoming a Healing Tao Instructor. For more info: https://healingtaousa.com/instructorbecome.html
MORE INFO:
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https://healingtaousa.com/taichi
5 Bamboo Scrolls – Table of Contents of Upcoming eBooks
Primordial Tai Chi
Way of Enlightened Self-Love
5 Bamboo Scrolls
An Inner Alchemy Transmission
Tao Science of Transmuting
Heart/Mind – Soul – Pure Love Qi
Bamboo Scroll # 1
Tao Cosmology & Sacred Movement
800-Year Lineage Qi Gong for Radiant Health
by Michael Winn
Preface by Roger Jahnke
Dedication
This Tao inner alchemy transmission in 5 Bamboo Scrolls is a digital nod to the bamboo slats tied together to make scroll-books 2500 years ago in ancient China. It’s why Chinese is still read vertically. Westerners scroll vertically to read an eBook, even as our alphabet eyes scan horizontally.
L: Vertical pictographic writing on bamboo slats. R: Bamboo slats tied together with thread to make a scroll-book.
I dedicate these scroll-books with eternal gratitude to my Wu Ji Gong teacher Zhu Hui, and his lineage founder Zhang (Chang) San Feng of Mt. Wudang. I thank the Tao immortals who inspired this magical form and all Taoists, ancient and modern, with the spiritual courage to transmit neidan gong, the amazing Tao science of inner alchemy.
Special appreciation to my previous wife Joyce Gayheart, now floating in Flower Heaven, and my current wife Jem dancing with me in Heaven-on-Earth. They both have done the Primordial Tai Chi ceremony with me hundreds of times, bringing great blessings into our lives. Our 3 year old son Emerald was consciously conceived following a Wu Ji Gong ceremony that invoked Pure Love Qi from Origin. He is clearly a power house expression of love.
I’ve embedded my five digital bamboo scrolls with an alchemically distilled spiritual essence, compressed like a jewel and polished over eight years of writing. Beyond the deep content, these scrolls are intended to be a direct Qi transmission to empower every reader. The download is automatic, via gan ying, principle of harmonic resonance. Just open your heart to fully receive a boost on your Way.
Primordial Tai Chi is a springboard to share much useful information about the Tao path for any reader. For those with the discipline to regularly practice this marvelous ceremony, expect to receive Pure Love Qi blessings on your Way. May you cultivate Original Breath and grow enlightened Self-love as the foundation of your life.
I am grateful for the genius of Chinese civilization to embody the rich and deep wisdom of the Way in such a simple, graceful sacred dance.
Great Tao — thank you, thank you, thank you!
– Michael Winn, Asheville, N.C. November 2017
Note: I have already written drafts of all 26 chapters that comprise the 5 Bamboo Scrolls. But much work remains to polish and integrate them, so they will be released over time as they ripen.
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Bamboo Scroll # 1
Tao Cosmology & Sacred Movement
800-Year Lineage Qi Gong for Radiant Health
Table of Contents
Preface by Roger Jahnke:
Zhu Hui Lao Shi
Introduction by Michael Winn:
Awaken Self-Love with Sacred Movement
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Ch.1: Wu Ji Gong in China:
800 Year Lineage of Cultivating the Unknowable
Ch. 2: Battle of Ancient & Modern Cosmologies:
The Quest to Know Our True Origin
Ch. 3: Primordial Tao Cosmology Map:
How Qi Flows from Wu Ji to Body & Back
Ch. 4: What is Cosmological Qigong?
Dancing Sacred Rhythms of Space, Time & Beings
Ch. 5: Love & Sex, Evil & Death, Light & Dark Qi:
Everyday Human Tao
Appendix A: One Cloud’s 9 Inner Alchemy Formulas for Immortality
Appendix B: Joyce Gayheart’s “My Body Moves Easily, I Feel Graceful and Light”. Feldenkrais-Primordial 4 Audio CDs
Appendix C: Medical and Spiritual Qigong Home Study Courses
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Bamboo Scroll # 2
Tao of Entering Sacred Body Space
Cultivating a Pearl of Golden Elixir
By Michael Winn and Zhu Hui
Table of Contents
Ch. 6: Wu Ji Gong Origins & Theory by Zhu Hui
Ch. 7: Physical Practice of Wu Ji Gong by Zhu Hui
Ch. 8: A Glimpse into Zhu Hui’s Life
Ch. 9: Prepare a Powerful Ceremony:
Shape the Pearl of True Intent
Ch. 10: Activate Feng Shui Power In Your Body:
Why Sacred Direction is Important
Ch. 11: The Endless Flow of Questions & Answers:
Cultivating Whole Body Enlightenment
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Bamboo Scroll # 3
The Qi Patterns of Heaven and Earth
Flowing Light, Sound & Movement
Table of Contents
Ch. 12: The 12 Earth Cycle Movements:
Gather & Harmonize 12 Organ Spirits
Ch. 13: The 10 Heaven Cycle Movements:
Couple Your Inner Male & Inner Female
Ch. 14: Our Body is a Living I Ching:
Dance the 8 Trigram Patterns of Destiny
Ch. 15: Seven Sacred Tones:
Music Arises from Primordial Silence
Ch. 16: Spoken from an Open Heart:
Wu Ji Adepts Share Their Stories
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Bamboo Scroll # 4
Tai Chi as Creative Play
Taoist Sexology, Medicine & Numerology
Table of Contents
Ch. 17: Free Will – the Wildcard in Human Destiny:
Inner Will (De) + Outer Will (Yi ) = True Play (Wu Wei)
Ch. 18: Sacred Movement as Chinese Medicine:
8 Extraordinary Vessels Heal our Deep Self
Ch. 19: Primordial Tai Chi as Spiritual “Anti-Tai Chi”:
Which Way is Your Qi Flowing?
Ch. 20: Love & Sex in the Primordial Realm
Ch. 21: Taoist Numerology:
Numbers as Living Beings Hidden in Life Structures
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Bamboo Scroll # 5
Way of Inner Alchemy
Water & Fire Copulate to Ignite Original Breath
Table of Contents
Ch. 22: Inner Alchemy Science of Self-Realization vs.
Modern Science of Shaping Matter
Ch 23: A Brief History of Yuan Qi:
How Inner Alchemy Concentrates Original Breath
Ch 24: Torus Shape of Infinite Creativity:
Find Self-Love in the Hole of a Spinning Donut?
Ch. 25: Is “God” a Scalar Wave?
Science of Ultra-Deep Consciousness
Ch. 26: Advanced Inner Alchemy Methods:
Activate Your Primordial Imagination
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Cosmic Torus: which way is your Qi spiraling?
Primordial Tai Chi creates a Torus shape, seen from the inside in this image. This shape allows your Qi to spiral in or out, up or down, in any creative direction it so chooses.Many think the torus (do-nut) is the fundamental shape of this Cosmos.
Blessings on Cultivating Your Primordial Way,
Michael Winn
“Who takes Heaven as his ancestor, Virtue as his home,
the Tao as his door, and who becomes change — is a
Sage.” — Chuang Tzu, Inner Chapters
“The Tao is very close, but everyone looks far away.
Life is very simple, but everyone seeks difficulty.”
— Taoist Sage, 200 B.C
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