Now they are available in this comprehensive 6-hour preparatory course on the Taichi application of “transferring power.” Also called “fah jing,” to transfer power means you have the ability to transfer an energy signal outside of your body for applications such as martial arts (Tai Chi Chuan) or healing. I waffled about getting the Delux edition for quite awhile, but totally recommend it for anyone seriously interested in the TTC.Waysun Liao – Prepare to Transfer Power (an Intro to Fah Jing) – ADVANCEDįor years, these videos were only available by private invitation. The regular version is $25 and the Delux Study Edition is $50! The Delux version includes a foreword, an interview with Liao, the complete translation of the TTC (separate from the one embedded in the text), and an in depth glossary of the important terms used by Lao Tzu. In some states, the author's meaning is clear and profound, and in others, the same text seems to be just gobbleygook! How do I spend more time in the state of understanding? How did I get there? How do I get back there? Having this experience has made me very interested in learning more about the oral tradition.īe warned, this is not a cheap book. Then, days later, trying to read the book again, I found myself astonished that I had bought such a meaningless book! That was when I began to get a clue that understanding these books somehow depends on the state of the reader. I discovered Fey's book, read some of it and was amazed at how clear and meaningful it was. Understanding also seems to be state dependent. John Bright Fey refers to this secret oral teaching as well. I am intrigued by the idea that the accompanying oral tradition is the key required for deep understanding of the ancient text. Best of all, it has been a guiding and sustaining light in my continuing attempt to "follow the chi til it leads to the Tao." It has given me a context for understanding Tao and Te which has been standing up very well, not only for Taoist concepts, but also for understanding the underlying commonality of all spiritual traditions. But I can tell you that reading this book got me to read many other translations to see in what ways Liao's "illuminated" translation differs. Okay, I don't know what the "real meaning" of the Tao Te Ching is. For over two thousand years then, the swimming book has been translated and retranslated by people who do not swim. And then someone else, reading that book, rewrote the book, also never having been in the water. Regarding other translations, Liao says it's as if someone wrote a book about swimming without ever having been in the water. Having received the oral transmission, Liao writes a story that includes the subtext of the teachings, and so fills the reader in on the real meaning of the Tao Te Ching. Liao says that the Tao Te Ching is actually an instruction manual for attaining the Tao, but that it cannot be properly understood in the absence of the accompanying oral tradition, which he received from the Taoist sage he studied with as a teenager. He has taught Tai Chi at his center in Chicago for most of those 30 years, but he did not write another book on the energy arts until this teaching novel. Waysun Liao is the author of The Tai Chi Classics, a book about Tai Chi that was written 30 years ago and has been translated into 7 or 8 languages. It's a very easy read, and the story and its principles stick with you. Each night of teaching is a chapter, followed by another chapter of the story in which the principles are illustrated in the lives of the characters in the story. Waysun Liao has written another translation of the Tao Te Ching, but with a brilliant new twist: this version of the TTC is embedded in a teaching novel! Liao tells a story of Lao Tzu visiting a frontier province in ancient China, where he stayed with the Prince for nine nights, allowing the prince nine questions each night, the answers to which comprise the 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching. With the context of a story, there is a cohesive vision of the eighty-one chapters of the Tao Te Ching which explain how man may live in harmony with the world and the world unseen." (from Dancing Dragon's review on Amazon) Without this context, the interpretation of this classic will vary widely. The importance of this story is that it lends context to the enigmatic text of the Tao Te Ching. Portions of these secrets eventually become the text of the Tao Te Ching. During the visit he reveals the secrets of living in the Tao. "Master Waysun Liao's story of Lao Tzu's visit to a border town in China before wandering across the Western mountains toward India. Nine Nights with the Taoist Master, by Waysun Liao
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