Why I Teach What I Do
Over the years I've developed an interest in many different systems and practices relating to both eastern and western philosophies of life, health and nature of the mind.
They are all fascinating in there own right. Everything from Metaphysics to Mind Sciences to Healing Arts, including some esoteric thinking as well as responses and rebuttals to these methodologies.
I don't want to mislead you and suggest these arts "sprung fully blown from the head of Zeus" or were cut from whole cloth. Even In China, as far back as a thousand years there were skeptics and these views though mainstream were in some circles considered controversal.
It took a thousand years for the Yin Yang and Five Element Theories to be fused, finessed and fine tuned enough to be merged into a congruent whole. Today we take that for granted. Five Elements and Yin Yang now go together like ham and eggs.
The Chinese genius however was the ability to integrate seemingly unrelated disciplines and organize them under common theories or ideas. Which by the nature of the Chinese mind of the time, demanded that all parts fit smoothly into the whole. And that the whole and the parts be harmonious and not contentious.
Making it possible for the architect, mathematician, musician, poet, artist, philosopher, soldier, gardener and others, to have a common basis of communication, an "energy based lingua Franca" that all could understand, share and communicate through. An agreement understood by all.
This common foundation or glue that holds things together is (at the risk of constantly repeating myself) Yin Yang, Five Elements, Unity of Heaven, Earth and Man, Time measurement and Space or charting the skies and the cosmos above and the terrestrial below.
In my mind at least, this way of thinking lead to a Golden Age of Science and Civilization in China. When it was lost, the kingdom was lost.
Fortunately for me, these are also things I find interesting, not because they are from China or from antiquity, but because there are a powerful way of understanding, a schematic or blueprint that underpinned an entire country and gave it the genuinely deserved title of
"The Middle Kingdom."
What I'm trying to present are some of the teachings of the people of the middle kingdom, (Jung - Middle Kuo - Kingdom) the longest continious surviving nation on the face of the earth.
I try to present them as best I can in my own limited way and in their practical workman's dress. You can find more on this point of view on "stone monkey" page of this site.