Empty Vessel
Journal of Taoist Philosophy & Practice
Spring 2021
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SPRING 2021 Volume 28 Number 1 me and master ni, PAGE 8 50 years of living with Tao, PAGE 12 Taming anger with forgiveness, PAGE 16 spirit of the point, PAGE 18 commentary on ch. 3, PAGE 20 Daoist meditation, PAGE 26
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Book Review The 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao Author: Xing De (Li Shi Fu)
The 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao is an essential manual for cultivating and refining one’s Inner Nature and Inner Character. As such, it is a revelatory guide to the fundamental basis of Internal Alchemy. In the first stage, a person’s Inner Nature, their conduct and character, should undergo a tempering process. This lays the foundation for refining one’s Life-Destiny, a transformation of one’s physical form and ultimately the sublimation of one’s body into a Golden Immortal. The 49 Barriers of Cultivating the Dao walk the reader through the obstacles that emerge in this process and give detailed and invaluable advice on how to overcome them. Originating from the Script for Penetrating Through the Barriers, written by Liu Yi Ming in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), this treatise has been edited and revised by the Daoist Master Xing De in order to extract and distill its most profound essence.
Accompanying each barrier is an extensive commentary by Xing De. These are frank, humorous, and replete with downto-earth and lively examples to clarify the meaning and contemporary relevance of this ancient text. The commentaries are also deeply knowledgeable in Chinese tradition, bridging Daoism with Buddhism, Confucianism and even Christianity, and possess a rare mystical depth stemming from Xing De’s long-term practice. Johan Hausen started his martial arts endeavours at the age of thirteen by taking up the Korean art of Tae Kwon Do. After immersing himself into the world of competitive Tae Kwon Do for eight years with over one hundred fights The Empty Vessel — Page 36
he reached a plateau and decided to return to the often declared “cradle of all martial arts”, Shaolin Kungfu, to reignite his love for martial arts. This ambition lead him to the Shaolin Temple and eventually to the Wudang Mountains, desiring to not only be able to defend himself and maintain a healthy body, but to also learn techniques to speed up recovery and convalescence from injury. At this time he was exposed to the wide scope of Chinese medicine in treating all kinds of illnesses and diseases, which strongly attracted him. Johan ended up staying for more than five years at the Five Immortals Temple under the tutelage of Li Shifu, studying a variety of subjects such as Tai Ji, longevity exercises, Dao Yin (guiding and leading of Qi), alchemy, swordsmanship, martial arts, Feng Shui, Yi Jing (The Book of Changes) divination and Daoist healing, resulting in receiving a 24th Dragon Gate Lineage name. Johan currently places his focus on practical application of Chinese medicine, and in order to work within a legal framework in the West he graduated from Chinese medicine school in New Zealand in 2012 and has been a practicing acupuncturist and herbalist ever since. Johan sees it as his calling and purpose to preserve the vast lore of Asia and China in particular. To date he has translated three ancient texts from China, and plans to publish many more under the umbrella of Purple Cloud Press. He hopes to widen his scope of treatment modalities with the ultimate goal of opening a Longevity Centre under the banner of the Purple Cloud Institute.
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