Xiu Dao: Daoist Meditation and Beyond (Xiu Dao-2)

[@HenningDaverne]

Listening to a person who is actually qualified to talk on the matter, explaining daoist terms and philosophy with such clarity, precision and openess, is very rare to encounter on youtube, it is much appriciated 🙏🏽 would love to hear you shed light on topics like “Yi yin jing”, “Xi Sui Kung” and “Wu Dao”

[@HaiYangChannel]

Thanks. I am very happy to know that my video can help the community!

[@Katrinagreen5252]

You are the teacher I have been looking for for years and thought I might have to travel to China to meet, My gratitude is so deep its difficult to convey. Thank you

[@HaiYangChannel]

Thank you.

[@pgskills]

Fascinating breakdown, as usual, Sifu. It's so rare to have someone with your level of knowledge in these fields who a) is truly fluent in both languages b) cognizant of the differences in cultural outlooks of East and West and c) truly passionate about trying to communicate this information and bridge the linguistic/cultural divide for your viewers and students. I have always focused my study/practice more on the technical, movement, and combative aspects of Bagua and martial arts in general. I own and have read MANY books on the theoretical/philosophical aspects and origins of these arts as well as Chinese medicine, energy arts, and meditation aspects and have only gotten to the point where I can admit I don't TRULY understand much of the information I've taken in about these subjects. Your lectures here are slowly helping me to process more of that information that I've taken in over the years and I feel like I can truly grasp some of the fundamentals much more clearly than before. Your teachings and ability to communicate these subjects to English speakers like me is so extremely valuable and deeply appreciated. It has made many topics just much more concrete for me. Thank you so much, Sifu Yang. Hope you and yours are doing well. I'll continue re-watching these because I know there's still more that I can acquire from them. Thank you once again, truly.

[@HaiYangChannel]

Hello, thank you for your feedback. I think you may have noticed that I always try to explain these old practice in a simple and understandable language. Also, I am very happy to see that there are some people in our community are interested to these topics! I believe that I can improve myself in the teaching process as well. This is why I appreciate any feedback contributed by people like you! So, thank you again.

[@yinyangtom]

I can totaly realte to all your wrote. I feel the same great help in better understanding all the theory I have learned in all the years. As always, Thank you Master Yang

[@Yvonne_Jentsch]

Thank you so much! You are making all clear for us. This translations are also very helpful for a complete understanding of the matter at hand. As some others here I also looked a long time for qualified information about Daoism and I feel also quite happy to find it here.

[@Spectre2434]

I remember Dr. Yang and some of his colleagues talking about the different types of Qigong.

[@LemurianSoulSongs]

Gratitude! Thank You for sharing your knowledge!

[@HaiYangChannel]

You are very welcome.

[@drunkmara]

My respect, Master! I learned more in this video than anyone else told me on this topic.

[@HaiYangChannel]

Thank you, I am glad you think so.

[@DaiAndrews]

Thank you for another informative video, there is a great deal of misinformation available, and I appreciate your efforts spread authentic teaching. I especially enjoyed the eye closing exercise, and will implement in my practice.

[@HaiYangChannel]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you.

[@d14bolus]

Thank you very much Laoshr

[@HaiYangChannel]

You are most welcome

[@bareawareness]

Fascinating stuff - your clear explanations are much appreciated

[@HaiYangChannel]

Glad you like them! Thank,s

[@kalidasa269]

Great video! Thank You I hope you bring out more videos on the practice of Xiu Dao.

[@HaiYangChannel]

More to come! Thanks

[@yesviews]

It seems that there are no dislikes because only those who are truly seeking have made it here

[@HaiYangChannel]

I hope so. Thanks.

[@michaeldecroix7655]

Thank you for explaining simply Xiu Dao, it is of great benefit for my personal practice.

[@HaiYangChannel]

You are very welcome and thank you for your comment.

[@hunghuydoan]

Thank you Mr Yang Hai, the visualization at the bottem of the video is a really good skill. I hope looking more your videos about Xiu Dao.

[@HaiYangChannel]

Thank you, I will

[@marcoalbasio4901]

Very clear and accurate. Looking forward for more videos, I would really like to practice 修道。There's no substitute for practice to learn something!

[@HaiYangChannel]

Yes, no substitute for practice especially in Xiu Dao. Thanks.

[@sumgai848]

I am truly enjoying your videos and feel I am learning quite a bit. Understanding vague terms over the years really had left me feeling a bit frustrated with translations and context, so you are really opening a new world to me, here. I thank you for that. As a side note, I feel it would be good to mention that "primordial" and "post-mordial" as a concept definitely works in the context of your study, but "pri" is closer to "primus" which means "first" or in this case: "first stage of existence", rather than "before". In the truest concept to your teaching, "pre-mordial" would be a more accurate translation to "before existence". Either way, thank you for taking the time to teach all this.

[@HaiYangChannel]

Interesting, I will think about your suggestion. English is not my fist language and I need to read some references. Thanks.

[@xingmenneigong]

wow great explanation thanks! I really appreciate you teaching us

[@HaiYangChannel]

Glad you enjoyed it! thanks too.

[@huymannguyen7254]

Thank You, Master Yang. Loved your video.

[@HaiYangChannel]

You are very welcome and thanks,.

[@bredmond812]

I am so glad to find somebody who can help me understand 修道. I also wanted to share my thoughts on the word postmordial. I will begin by saying that primordial comes from prime and order, which shows that the 'm' is paired with the 'pri', not with the 'ordial'. Therefore, to coin the word postmordial is not consistent with the etymology of primordial. If we were to use "post" to refer to 后, it would then be postordial. However, using post doesnt seem proper to me to pair with prime. The usual scheme is prime and sub. So it would be primordial and subordial. This scheme however is probably not satisfying for your purposes because sub often implies inferior, and I dont think that is what you are trying to express. Maybe better scheme would be preordinal and postordinal? I changed the suffex ordial to ordinal because i just believe it is a more standard convention. Thank you for your time.

[@HaiYangChannel]

interesting input, I will think about it. Thank you.

[@mdubb4855]

Thank you!

[@GFD472]

Very clear and helpful information! I hope you will discuss the various methods of Qi gong at some point in the future.

[@HaiYangChannel]

Thank you! Will do!

[@kungfuind]

Nihao.. do you have any Taoist Qigong school in china? I would really like to study Taoist arts. So please let me know about. Xie xie

[@gregbarnsdale4293]

Thanks Hai Yang, excellent lecture, very informative, high quality stuff. I'm very curious about the hilarious qigong frauds, sounds like it'll be a good laugh!!

[@HaiYangChannel]

Great suggestion!

[@revhwest]

Another brilliant lecture. It was very helpful to have you return to original concepts in Chinese in order to recover lost meaning that has been corrupted by many years of writings that are interpretations of interpretations in English and other languages as well as literature that over emphasizes special “secret techniques “ that have been promoted by various opportunists that have manipulated concepts to achieve sed-serving financial and political gains. By structuring the lecture topics with clarification of key concepts like Xiudao vs. Meditation, better defining Primordial/Postmordial concepts and elaborating on the Shun Ni process the final section on practice was easier to understand in way that finally made sense. It is helpful if you include Chinese characters. Question: are the Chinese characters for shun ni 順 逆？I can’t wait for next lecture! Thank you! H

[@HaiYangChannel]

Hello Howard, I hope you are doing well. Thank you for your comments. One of the objectives of my video is to clarify some misconceptions about some basic concepts in Daoism caused by translation and other issues. I think I have added the Chinese characters in the video but I might be carelessly forgetting it... yes, these characters are right, they are 顺逆。 Take good care in the U.S. Thanks,

[@chita1205]

great class

[@edwardkowalski9756]

What arę specifica documents to read about xiu dao, could you recommend some?

[@HaiYangChannel]

Do you read Chinese?

[@edwardkowalski9756]

@@HaiYangChannel with help of translations, could you recommend something

[@HaiYangChannel]

There are so many. But simply translation does not help at all. If you want to give it a try, I would like to recommend the 性命圭旨。

[@poodlefilmstrailer]

Very good exposition of ideas. Makes one wish you would make more indepth videos/class on specific parts that you often have to gloss over for time purpose. By using Ni practice to after the primordial, and raise and repair it, do you mean that Taoists seek to raise their Jing with Xiu Dao? Does chi kung do that as well or it is specific to xiu dao?

[@HaiYangChannel]

Sure, Qigong is good also, but not at the same level in terms of depth.

[@savelives3763]

Thank you for video. Are Qigong(or Nigong) and Xiu Dao intention-based practices or not? Meaning does the practitioner perform the practice with an intention of achieving some specific result ?

[@HaiYangChannel]

Not that much. I have a video talking about it. Or I will talk about it in the next Q&A.

[@n.c.108]

Wish you could show more Xiu Doa

[@HaiYangChannel]

Sure. More to come.

[@bigstripedcat]

Wonderful lecture again...thank you very much Master Yang. One question please: So Xiu Dao as a method of cultivating the Dao...as a path to reveal the dao...to merge with the Dao? Like a Path to clear the Path to be not separate to the Path? Two questions sorry...😏🙏

[@HaiYangChannel]

Yes, correct. There are different way to explain this term but basically, yes, it means cultivating the Dao.

[@bigstripedcat]

Thank you very much Master Yang 🙏🏻

[@friedrichaugustiii3114]

I have two questions: 1.) Is for Xiu Dao a personal teacher necessary, or is it also possible to attain decent progress by self study and online resources? Unfortunately I live in a country where a personal daoist teacher isn't availabe, and I don't have the money or language skills to travel to China. 2.) When learning Chinese with regards to Daoist literature, is it more preferable to learn simplified or traditional Hanzi?

[@HaiYangChannel]

Hello, I will answer them for you in the next Week's Q&A.

[@yiwenyoga9617]

老师讲的太好了，我真是受益无穷，多谢老师。

[@HaiYangChannel]

您客气，谢谢。

[@botanicalbiohacking6065]

How does it compare to 修心 xiu xin?

[@HaiYangChannel]

Hello, not the same at all... Thanks,

[@xichlongxichlong8463]

Please ask the 飞升, whole family going to heaven is not realistic? Can a physical body transform into Intangible to unite with Tao?

[@HaiYangChannel]

I have never witnessed it before...

[@isaaceng3363]

When the Legendary Yang Style Tai Chi Master CHEN MAN CHING---- Master Chen Man Ching was one of Yang Cheng Fu's best Students and one of the first Tai Chi Masters to teach Tai Chi to Non-Chinese Students and Chen Man Ching Founded his own Version of the Yang Tai Chi Style----was asked by his Students one day if He Meditated?? Chen Man Ching replied "No!" I Practice Tai Chi Chuan. But his Students were not satisfied with this Answer, so they asked him again the same question: And again he replied, "No," "I don't meditate," I only Practice my Tai Chi Form: So it's Fascinating, that one of the greatest Tai Chi Masters of our Time, did not Meditate at all, and yet he achieved some of the highest levels of Gung Fu--This Said: I do agree with Master Hai Yang that 'Meditation can be very helpful' in improving one's Tai Chi or Gung Fu, and while "moving Meditation"( and, Now, I'm using One of the 'English language translations" of Meditation which can mean "Active" or or "Dynamic" Concentration) is directly the "Opposite" of the "Static" Taoist Meditation, they nevertheless share something Important in common: Even when Doing "Dynamic" Tai Chi Practice its important that the Tai Chi Practitioner not "Force" the Movements or make excessive efforts: In other words while doing Tai Chi and practicing Taoist Meditation are not the same at all, Tai Chi is still an exercise with a Daoist Flavor, in line with the Taoist Philosopy of Culitivating the "Way." Huang Shen Shyan was Chen Man Ching's most accomplished Student: kzbin.info/www/bejne/joTRhneheLZjjbc

[@HaiYangChannel]

Please correct the misspelling of his name before writing other contents. Thank you.

[@isaaceng3363]

@@HaiYangChannel Sorry left out the M Cheng Man-ch'ing or Zheng Manqing(1902-1975)

[@battl91]

Hello Hai Yang, actually Zhan Zhuang is static, and is infact qigong - so I think this is not 100% correct to say.

[@HaiYangChannel]

Please watch my video about the definition of static and dynamic.

[@marcoalbasio4901]

Hello Hai Yang! I'm interested in the shun 顺 / ni 逆 theory you explained. You said that the order of Shun is: Nature > Heart > Mind > Emotions > Illusion. I wonder if you can give us the chinese name (Hanzi and if you wish also pinyin) for these elements. I think it's important because for example in translations sometimes 心 xin is translated as both Heart and Mind, and so it's important to clear up the meaning to get an understanding. Thank you! Marco :-)

[@HaiYangChannel]

hello, yes, good idea. I would like to share it with you here. The reason I did not want to put all of these Chinese characters is that I do not want to confuse people since most of the audiences do not speak Chinese language. The Sun order is: 性，心，意，情，妄。 Thanks,

[@marcoalbasio4901]

@@HaiYangChannel Thank you so much!

[@nao16395]

実践不可。泣

[@HaiYangChannel]

No idea... but thanks.

[@nao16395]

@@HaiYangChannel Thank You💪👊🙏

[@GodSpearLiBajiQuan]

Dao can never be contained in a culture or any system of learning. Dao cannot be contained by humanity at all. Dao is not just China. Dao is multidimensional and multiracial and multi species, and so on

[@HaiYangChannel]

Interesting.