05/29/2021
Summer Greetings from Wandering Daoists!
After two full months, my house is still under construction. Consequently, I’m waiting to host weekly evening classes, weekend workshops, and ceremonies until after the renovations are complete and the sawdust settles. If there’s anything I’ve learned about house renos it’s multiple the time you think it’ll take by three.
THREE is a powerful number in many cultures. To the Daoists, in the simplest terms, the Qi field can be broken down into three energy vectors of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity.
To sum this concept up, I refer to Daoist Alchemist, Michael Winn:
"The HORIZONTAL vector includes Earth, linear time, matter, sensory, familial, social, cultural, political energies that flow through our lives. It’s where our personality lives. The scientific imagination is great at manipulating this realm.
The VERTICAL vector is the axis of Heaven – Earth. This is Nature’s process of transmuting spirit/subtle breath (Qi) into substance/matter and back again. All religious deities live along this axis, as patterns of Qi given form by human spiritual imagination. This axis holds the potential for our soul to awaken to multi-dimensional realities.
The STILL POINT is the Origin from which Heaven, Earth, and Humankind all arise spontaneously. The easiest Way to access a pathway, quoted by LaoTzu as “Return to Origin,” (the highest destiny in Daoism) is to open a portal at the crossing point of the Vertical and the Horizontal.
Humans can activate a third moving vector, the DIAGONAL axis that creatively integrates the Horizontal, Vertical, and Still Point. When the three vectors of Qi flow merge at the same point, the Great Oneness (tai yi) radiates its divine feeling of love and blessings directly upon us."
Please see upcoming events on my website: www.WanderingDaoists.com.
Note: Audio and video recordings from previous mediation and qigong classes will soon be available on the website!
Wishing you a Qi filled holiday this weekend!
