All Material, Unless Otherwise Noted, Copyright Donald Lockwood 2007- 2009
Introduction
This site is under construction
This page is provided as an easy way to get an overview
While this site is still under construction it has enough information on it to be
a useful introduction to Inner Sage Tao and eventually will become a very useful
source of information about Chinese Philosophy and spiritual disciplines and its
interface with traditional Western Philosophy and spiritual disciplines. This Site
is designed to be a graduated introduction starting with some very simple material
which can then be followed into the sources and references to the teachings. The
Teachings here discussed are not so much a distillation of almost 45 of study and
practice, but rather a crystallization of some of the resulting knowledge and experience
in to a relatively simple and practical form. It is a form suitable for almost anyone
of any age or position in life and starts a process of creating a firm foundation
for a genuinely happy and successful life, both in the here and now of the everyday,
but also in whatever may come after it.
Links to important material are included in the paragraph below, clicking on any
of them will pull the page reference into the frame below the paragraph for easy
access:
A quick idea of the spiritual orientation of Inner Sage Tao can be gleaned from reading
the Introduction to the Primary Affirmations of Inner Sage Tao, clicking here will
display it in the frame below. It is also available in the Reading Room. In the
upper left of each page are Mandalas of my own design, both of these symbolically
embody important aspects of Inner Sage Tao teaching. The Commentary on the Ming-te
or ‘Bright Virtue’ Mandala (in the upper left of this page) is a good introduction
to the basic principles of Inner Sage Tao in both their Metaphysical and Cosmological
background. The Sincerity Mandala appears in the upper left corner of many of the
other pages and a short commentary on it can be accessed either within the commentary
on the Mint-te Mandala or directly here. By clicking here you can access Recommended
Reading (in the frame below) which now has two book lists, the first has several
books related to the Chinese Philosophical side of Inner Sage Tao, the second illustrates
the East-West cross cultural perspective relating Confucian thinking with Western
Natural Law theory, modern mathematical game theory, and concludes pointing in the
direction of an ethics of self-realization unifying Collingwood, Kohlberg and Mencius.
The East meets West perspective is also appears in Inner Sage Tao and New Age Thinking
which skims the surfaces of the of some rather deep subjects. A commentary on the
movie Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger is used to illustrate the Four Harmonies and
it beginning can be read below by clicking here. Of the Three Principles two pages
The Good (To see the glossary definition below click here.) and Wisdom has small
sections on them and direct the reader to On Wisdom and Happiness which can be accessed
below by clicking here, or in the Reading Room. I am experimenting with colors and
their combinations as well as different backgrounds, I’m sorry is some of the experiments
which I have done leave a little to be desired. They will change soon, though I
have recently been hampered with problems with my monitor that make accurate judgement
of colors almost impossible, so there will be no changes in color scheme anytime
soon (10/5/08)
