Inner Sage Tao
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Inner Sage Tao is graduated approach to living a life in harmony with the absolute.
It is not a teaching that rejects the world, but rather a teaching that teaches
how to live in the world as a self-
Inner Sage Tao is a powerful technique originating in the oldest texts of Chinese
Meditation, the Hsin Shu or “Art of Mind” texts of the Guanzi. These short works
were very influential in the foundations of Taoism and the Mencian branch of Confucianism.
The Hsin Shu texts reveal the secret of the Ming Shen or numinous mind, which is
part of the spiritual potential of every person. The numinous mind is the intuitive
mind that connects with the secret essence of all things and allows one to experience
an intuitive apprehension of reality. Modern techniques from NLP (Neuro-
Feng Shui Meditation uses guided meditation to explore the Feng Shui Compass as a Mandala of the cosmos. Starting literally from the Center with a meditative treatment of two Chinese Classics the Zhong Yong and the Da Xue (Usually translated as The Doctrine of the Mean and The Great Learning), the teaching progresses outward through the eight Trigrams and the Nine Stars to the furthest reaches of the Traditional Chinese Cosmos, including an esoteric treatment of the I Ching.
I Ching Tao is the way of turning action into effective action. Action which not
only does something but which does what is right given the deep structure of the
situation. I Ching Tao is the path of the Chun-
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