Sublime

Dis-ease is yin; it sometimes comes along to help you see how to balance the yang of life. People mostly get sick from burning their vital power through too much activity, and yang.

Inspired by the Confucian philosophy of the original nature of goodness and the Zen techniques of stilling the mind, a synthesis of the three philosophies—Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism—was reached. This form of Taoism is found in the teachings of two major Taoist sects today: the Complete Reality School (Ch’üan-chen) and the Earlier Heaven Way

Wang Yü-yang then said, “The true yin and yang energies reside in internal organs in our body. The true yang is stored in the liver and the true yin in the lungs. The liver belongs to the element wood. It is the dwelling place of the spirit. The lungs belong to the element metal. It is the dwelling place of the soul. Metal is said to be the daughte

“Following unnamed rivers, lost upon the interpenetrating paths of distant mountains, My strength failing and my vitality exhausted, I cannot find the ox . . . Far from home, I see many cross-roads, but which way is the right one I know not. Greed and fear, good and bad, entangle me.” —First Oxherding Picture

we strive to control. We cling to what we label as good. We try to avoid what we label as bad. This mentality imprisons us in a little box of misery. Inside of this box, we suffer because we are fighting the natural flow of the Tao.

Wang argues that, after the imperial unification, tianxia cosmology became subordinated to the imperial state (guo) and the earlier distinction between the Zhou imperial state and the realm of tianxia began to disappear.