On Oct 27 and Oct 28, Dancing with the Dead, a documentary movie featuring American author and translator Red Pine was premiered in Port Townsend. This movie included 10 songs Spring composed over Chinese classic poetry. Spring and Joe attended the premiere, where Spring gave a live performance. Port Townsend is where Joe and Spring […]
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On Feb 16, we held a tea time titled as Finding Wholeness at a Time of Divide, a sequel to an AMA China session in December. (To view the recording of this session, please join Our Village, the online community of practice.) Four Chinese women living overseas, myself included, were present at this session. We shared
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A hallmark for the way of a Taoist is Wu Wei, which is commonly translated as non-action. That is slightly misleading. A more accurate interpretation of Wu Wei is actually “micro-actions’. It means a person, when acquiring an embodied knowledge of wholeness, can achieve maximal results through micro-actions. This is the principle underlying acupuncture, which
Earth Mother and Her Emerging Tribe of Leaders Our Planet, the Great Mother, is giving birth. At this evolutionary junction, she is bringing forth a new vision of humanity that no one has seen before. Birthing is a moment that straddles life and death. A woman’s body is pushed to her physiological limits. A baby
On Jan 1st of 2020, my friend George Por asked me, “Spring, the ‘20s will most likely be a gateway to a planetary breakdown and/or breakthrough. What would I Ching say about how to enter this new decade?” I Ching, pronounced as yee-ching, is a seven-thousand year old Chinese divination system, one of the Earth’s
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Joe and I are currently doing a winter retreat on Cortes Island, British Columbia in Canada. This remote island tucks itself far away from the nearest metropolitan city Vancouver, nine hours and three ferry rides away! We are really taken by the quality of the community that organically formed on this island. There are about 800
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Death is the absence of life But life is not the absence of death Life is the thread spun by the Mother Spider of Time Weaving through death, birth, death and rebirth – Despair is the absence of hope But hope is not the absence of despair Hope is a fire tended by the stewards
By Yiqing He (translated by Spring Cheng) From the void we come To the void we go Before the tide rises No one notices the footprints in the sand Except those who dare to love Every seed carries the aroma of four seasons Every drop of water remembers how it flows through mountains as a
