Tao Te Ching for Spiritual cultivaiton (Online, Free)

The event is for people to meet, discuss, share and help each other for Spiritual Growth, Cultivation and Network.

We know that we have body, mind and spirit. The body is tangible and will go through birth, sickness, aging, and death. It also has duality, there is men and women and it lives in the physical world. Mind is intangible, but still has duality. There are positive/negative thoughts. The spirit is intangible and beyond duality. Lao Tzu used Tao to refer to origin of creation and the pure spirit within each one of us. Buddha called the pure spirit as Buddha nature, meaning everyone can reach Buddhahood or enlightenment. It is referred to as the image of God in Bible and spirit of Allah in Koran. The more modern terms can be pure awareness or pure consciousness.

Even though there are different names, they all point to the same pure nature within us.

The analogy of sun and clouds is one of my favourites. The pure nature can be likened to the sun, which is always emitting light regardless of sunny days, cloudy days or stormy days. The vexations such as anger, resentment, greed, ignorance, attachment to fame, possessions...etc. can be liken to clouds that can temporarily obscure the light from the pure nature. However, once they are blown away, the light or wisdom from the pure nature will shine again.

The spiritual cultivation is the journey to awaken to the pure nature within us and how to blow away clouds of delusions to let the wisdom or light to flow from the pure nature without hindrance, which lead us to a life with joy, ease and love while living in this dualistic world.

We use Tao Te Ching as a starting point and are open to any other teachings, such as those from Buddha, Jesus, Confucius, Lao Tzu...etc. and life experiences and wisdom from within each one of us.

Tao is the origin of creation and Tao is within each one of us too. It's the matter whether one can find it and following it instead of following desires and egotistic thoughts. If one can find it and use it in every moment, one unites with Tao, which is beyond life and death. There is also great wisdom in Tao that can be applied to solve vexations in life and help people elevate their spirituality.

Lao Tzu wrote Tao Te Ching about 2600 years ago. Amazingly, the wisdom revealed in it is great and profound and can be applied by people in modern days.

Welcome to join the online study group to study, discuss, understand and share realization and how to apply it in daily life.

After discussion, people can understand and apply the wisdom of Tao in life and resonate with the Tao within each one of us.

Here is the link to Peigee's English translation of DAO DE JING (or Tao Te Ching): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmG4tO7fbxnSHctZnFKdWdqcDlOandhY1BkbFU2dEF3SGlJ/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-e_5YlgO7mDskUw95IwMyWg

Here are some other translations from Internet for Tao Te Ching

https://lighteaching.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-tao-te-ching.html

https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jhmd,jc,rh/section:1

The online meeting link will be sent out on the day. Please message me if you RSVP but don't receive the link before the meeting.

Welcome to join us even if you haven't attended previous sessions as the discussion is quite flexible and any topic in previous texts can be discussed if needed.

Welcome to join us in person if you live in Sydney. The meeting URL will be sent via meetup message before the meeting. Please message me if you don't receive it.

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Looking forward to see you all in the discussion meeting.

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