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I take interest in the Whiteheadian philosophy as I wish to find some intellectual support in the Western thoughts for my understanding and practice of Taoism. The cosmology of Taoism and its understanding of the human nature is very special in comparison to the other spiritual traditions and religions, like Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.. It is special as it hints at the possibility that we as human have the potential of infinite developing and evolving, body and soul together. Although this is against the “common sense” of people in general, the possibility and desire for eternal life lies in the deepest psyche of the mankind.

As an ex-lawyer and law lecturer in a university in China, I started to do research on Taoism 11 years ago for the purpose of deepening my practice of meditation. I was diagnosed to have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma  in 2012. Thanks to my intuitive belief that the human body has the potential to heal itself, I started to practice a type of meditation based on Taoism. My practice of meditation soon brought very strong and amazing experience of the flow of Qi in the body. My health condition was obviously improved as a result. In addition to lymphoma, I also had atrophic gastritis, prostatitis and ankylosing spondylitis at the time. All the symptoms relating to these diseases were alleviated dramatically and have all gone by now with the deepening of my experience in the practice of meditation. At the same time, my lymphoma never deteriorated. In this course, I didn’t use any medicine, neither chemical medicine, nor any herbal medicine.

I believe the magic of spontaneous healing lies in the functioning of the flow of Qi. According to Taoism, Qi is the force and energy of life. Or put it more exactly, it’s the force and energy of Tao, which is the ultimate cause and logos of the cosmos. As the force and energy of life and Tao, Qi sustains all forms of elements, phenomena and life in the cosmos.

The cosmos in Taoism is not static. It’s an infinite process of evolution, driven by the movement of Qi, which functions in the interactive polarity of Yin and Yang. All forms of life, including the human life, are the result of this cosmic process of endless evolution. Chapter 42 of Tao Te Jing says: Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three and three begets myriad forms of being. All forms of being carry Yin and Yang, and are harmonized through the mediation of Qi.

Therefore, the understanding of the cosmos and the understanding of life, including the life of each of us as human being, are fully consistent with each other in Taoism. As the matter of fact, the life of each of us as human being is regarded as the embodiment of Tao as the cosmic force and cause. Accordingly, we can find the existence of Tao and its functioning through systematic and persistent observation of ourselves, including our body, feelings, emotion, perception, energy flow, etc..

The practice of meditation should be understood as systematic and persistent observation of ourselves and accordingly a scientific undertaking. Different from our observation of anything else, our observation of ourselves as practiced in the form of meditation inevitably leads to some changes in ourselves. First of all it leads to the change of our mood, our perception and mental state. Then it leads to the change of our energy flow, and finally the transformation of our physical conditions.

As a matter of fact, according to Taoism, through the practice of meditation, the body can rectify itself, as is clearly said in Chuangtse (BC 369-BC286): ”Without looking, without listening, hold the mind in quietness, the body will rectify itself. ” In the Inner Canon of Emperor Yellow (compiled between BC 200- BC 100), another important piece of classic Taoist work and the founding work of traditional Chinese medicine, it’s said, “Desire nothing and empty one’s mind, Qi will flow and disease will be avoided. “

The Inner Canon of Emperor Yellow also mentioned that Qi flows in the body in a circle, with no beginning and no ending. All kinds of diseases are caused as a result of persisting interruption and weakening of this circulation, because of emotional disturbance, too much stress from physical or mental labor, or exposure to negative environment like coldness, etc.

These understandings are extensively applied in the folk culture in China, in basically all forms of Qigong and traditional Chinese medicine, and are proved very useful. And it’s widely knon that Qi flows in a circle that goes downward in the front of the body and goes upward in the back of the body. It has been tested by myself through my experience of meditation and by a lot of the trainees who have practiced meditation under my instruction. Whether a trainee can successfully experience the circulation of Qi in the body is an issue of time, if they practice meditation properly and persistently. It can range from 5 days to some months, depending on the trainees’ health condition, personality, gender, etc., and how intensive they practice.

Simply through restoration and strengthening of this inner circulation of Qi through the practice of meditation, healing of various types of diseases, including cancer, can be achieved. In this sense, the practice of meditation should not be limited to sitting meditation,  but should include at least moving meditation like walking and jogging. And I would further argue that each moment of our life should be spent in the principle of meditation, that is, with some degree of awareness of the state of energy flow and circulation in us. In the past 11 years, I feel that my experience of the circulation of Qi keeps deepening and strengthening through the practice of meditation.

Step by step I have come to this idea: does that mean my life as whole, including the body, energy and consciousness, can be developed and transformed through the practice of meditation infinitely, thus defying the fate of inevitable mortality? This is not that absurd as most people would think. They might argue that nothing stays and change of the body can not be avoided. However, I’m not wishing that my life will always stay as it is now. I clearly understand that each moment it’s going through subtle changes and after some years it will be a very different being than I am now. I’m simply wondering that as through my practice of meditation and relating research, I’m more and more becoming one with Tao, which is the ultimate force and cause of cosmos and brings forth life and evolution, I’m no longer simply a physical being that will sooner or later perish, but a being that can be continuously transformed through the functioning of Tao in me.  I can keep on strengthening the circulation of Qi in me so that my body will always be strengthened and upgraded.

That’s why I’m not satisfied with this idea of perpetual perishing related to the process philosophy. It seems to me that the Whiteheadian cosmology with all its concepts and principles actually depicts a cosmos that is in an infinite process of evolution that brings novelty, creativity and beauty. As this potential originates in the fundamental components of the cosmos, that is, actual entity, with all its features as defined in the Whiteheadian cosmology, each individual human being should have the same potential as the cosmos has.

Why even Whitehead himself didn’t make any hint at this possibility? I think there might be two reasons. One is that Whitehead had developed his cosmology basically through academic speculation, with his resources from his research in mathematics, physics and western philosophy. Indeed he was also influenced by Buddhism. However, in comparison with Taoism, Buddhism is much more speculative and does not emphasize the significance of the body as much as Taoism does.

The other reason is that Whitehead had no idea and experience of the inner circulation of Qi or life energy as introduced above. He had ingeniously come up with the concept of actual entity, which, as the fundamental components of the cosmos, are drops of experience, complex and interdependent. Each actual entity is essentially dipolar, with its physical and mental poles. However, most probably this concept of actual entity for him is basically the result of intellectual speculation assisted with his powerful intuition.

The concept of Qi in Taoism is very much comparable with the concept of actual entity. It’s regarded as the final real element of the cosmos. It’s not dead matter, but mediates between the physical dimension and the dimension of consciousness and can be cultivated in an organic way. It manifests itself in the interaction and inter-becoming of Yin and Yang, each of which is immanent in the other pole. We can say Yin and Yang is the two poles of Qi, which are comparable with the physical pole and the mental pole of an actual entity.

By contrast, the concept of Qi does not simply stay in theory. It can be fully experienced through the practice of meditation. In order for Qi to be fully experienced, it’s inevitable for us to experience of its circulation, going down in the front of the body and going up in the back of the body. The downward flow is more related to the functioning of the body and its development, while the upward flow is more related to the functioning of the mind and its development. They constitute respectively the physical pole and the mental pole of our being. Most probably this circulation of Qi is the manifestation of the interrelationship of the mental pole and physical pole of an actual entity in human as a society of actual entities, after innumerable years of cosmic evolution.

This circulation of Qi can be experienced and recognized spontaneously and naturally in the practice of meditation, as it is the inherent pattern of energy flow in us. However, it has to be recognized and confirmed by us, and intentionally deepened and strengthened in our practice of meditation. That is to say, a decision has to be made for us to continuously deepen our experience of this circulation. This decision is obviously also our confirmation of the value of life and our desire to live, to live well and to live better, just as Whitehead has said with respect to all living beings (Science and the Modern World, 1967, 18).

That explains why many people who have practiced meditation for many years have no idea and no experience of this inner circulation of life energy in the body, as their practice of meditation is based on a different philosophy which believes that the body is foredoomed to perish and the purpose of meditation is for us to be liberated from any attachment of the body and the life. 

My understanding of the process and relational philosophy is still in the very beginning. However, by intuition I believe that it provides an intellectually much more sophisticated cosmology that is based on the latest findings in science and the rich reservoir of western philosophy and at the same time confirms the traditional beliefs and doctrines of Taoism. On the other hand, Taoism as a spiritual tradition and scholarship that is fully embedded in its practical application in the ways of Qigong, meditation, traditional Chinese medicine, etc. can be very inspiring for the speculative cosmology of the process and relational philosophy to become a handbook of practice for people to become the master of their own health, healing and longevity. Through the practice of meditation, all the concepts, doctrines and principles of the process and relational philosophy can be empirically tested and further developed. This would be a very fruitful and promising hand-shaking and marriage between the Western thoughts and the Eastern tradition.

1. What is Healing Meditation?

Healing meditation is developed by Dr. Zhenbao Jin in the process of his self-healing in the past 10 years after he was diagnosed to have lymphoma in 2012. It is based on an integrative understanding of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, philosophy, especially process philosophy founded by Alfred N. Whitehead, and relating branches of science, such as contemplative neuroscience.

Meditation, as understood by Dr. Zhenbao Jin, is the consistent and systematic practice of observing one’s own body in a contemplative way, which means the thinking activity is suspended so that the energy flow and its inherent pattern can be experienced, revealed and cultivated. For that purpose, in addition to sitting meditation and standing meditation, different ways of moving meditation such as jogging, walking or doing Taiji are also important and necessary.

With the restoration and enhancement of the energy flow, our life will be revitalized in general, which helps to alleviate most of the apparent and latent health problems. The transformation of body, life and consciousness achieved through meditation will lead to new insights into our life, our existence and our relationship with other people and beings in the world.

2. Intellectual Basis of Healing Meditation

Healing is actually a side effect of meditation. Meditation is, in its essence, an intentional exploration of the true reality of our being and the cosmos. Through the experience of energy flow that keeps deepening, we will become aware of the fact that our life is an ongoing process of transformation and growth. It’s because we get trapped in a rigid mindset and become disconnected from the deeper reality of our life, that we start to weaken and get sick.

Dr. Jin’s approach of meditation is mainly inspired by Taosim, Confucianism, Buddhism and process philosophy, as well as relevant branches of sciences.

According to Taoism, our life consists of 3 dimensions: body (xing，形), energy (qi,气) and consciousness (shen,神). They are 3 manifestations of the same reality, and are closely related to each other. Energy serves as a bridge between body and consciousness. It flows in a circle, going down in the front and going up in the back, as shown in the drawing on the right.

The downward flow of energy is the process of energy accumulation that nourishes the body. The upward flow of energy is the process of energy consumption that supports the development of consciousness, with the brain as the major organ of consciousness.This pattern of energy flow directly relates to the symbol of Taoism: Taiji.

Although the energy flows in circulation all the time when we are alive, the practice of meditation leads to its strengthening so that this pattern of flow in circulation can be directly experienced and purposefully cultivated, which is of fundamental importance for our physical and mental health, healing of health problems and ongoing development.

Both Taoism and Confucianism are based on the cosmology of I Ching (the Book of Changes，易经), according to which, the Cosmos is an ongoing process of evolution that brings forth life and the human being and the Cosmos are one. While Taoism focuses more on the Cosmos (or Tao), Confucianism focuses more on the human nature as the embodiment of the Cosmos. Accordingly, the human being has the potential of ongoing development and growth. For that purpose, ethical behavior and concerns in our daily life are necessary and should be cultivated as meditation in daily practice, instead of in a dogmatic way.

While Taoism and Confucianism regard the human being as a whole and propose the development of body, energy and consciousness in dynamic balance, Buddhism has very deep insights in the nature and functioning of consciousness and the inter-relatedness of all beings.

Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism all focus on the ongoing transformation of our own consciousness and/or our being itself. While the effects of such transformation can be measured by scientific means, like the physiological changes and development in the brain and the whole body, its mechanism and potential are beyond the reach of scientific research and fall into the realm of philosophy. In this sense Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, as well as other religions and spiritual traditions in the world can be understood as different traditions and schools of philosophy.

In this regard the process philosophy founded by Alfred N. Whitehead can be very helpful as it proposes an organic cosmology that depicts the Cosmos as an infinite process of development and evolution of creativity. Accordingly, it can serve as an powerful intellectual framework for us to understand meditation, different religions and spiritual traditions and their relationship to each other and to science.

3. How is an HM Workshop Organised?

Our body is the embodiment of the cosmic process of evolution. This has to be experienced in a conscious way and cultivated purposefully. Physical and mental problems, including various kinds of cancer occur when the inner process of development and transformation is ignored and suppressed. On the other hand, when we cultivate our consciousness of this inner process of transformation in a consistent and systematic way, natural healing will occur, often much faster than normally expected.

This workshop of healing meditation is designed for the purpose of cultivating the energy flow and our consciousness of it and its pattern so as to achieve the general improvement of health condition and the natural healing of various kinds of health problems. It can also serve as an empirical way to understand Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and process philosophy.

Different ways of meditation, including sitting meditation, standing meditation, jogging meditation and walking meditation will be introduced and practiced, with sitting meditation as major subject of training. It is suggested to do sitting meditation on a chair for beginners. The practice of sitting meditation normally begins with 10 minutes a session and is then extended gradually. After each session the participants will share their experience during the session and Dr. Jin will give his opinions and comments.

The workshop lasts 7 days, each day 2 and a half hours respectively in the morning and in the afternoon. For people with relatively good health conditions, they may experience evident energy flow in the first one to three days. For people much weakened due to health problems or aging, it may take 3 to 6 days to experience evident energy flow. The experience of energy flow is normally accompanied with improvement of health conditions, including digesting, sleeping, physical strength and alleviation of symptoms, such as pain.

4. Introduction of Dr. Zhenbao Jin

Dr. Zhenbao Jin is born in 1974 in China. He got a PhD degree in law for his research on philosophy of law at China University of Politics and Law in 2011. He had been a lawyer and a law lecturer in China. He speaks English and Chinese and can read in German.

In July 2012, Dr. Zhenbao Jin was diagnosed to have lymphoma. At the same time he had some other health problems including atrophic gastritis, prostatitis, ankylosing spondylitis, allergic rhinitis, etc. Dr. Jin started to do meditation at the advice of a friend, with an approach that is mainly based on Taoism. He soon had strong experience of energy flow and experienced its magic effect upon his health conditions.

Dr. Jin decided that this could be a good solution for his health problems. As a scholar, Dr. Jin believed that the mechanism of meditation and its effect could and should be explored in a rational way. Therefore, he didn’t follow any master or guru, but based his practice upon his study and research of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, philosophy, anthroposophy, as well as relevant branches of science such as psychology, medicine, quantum physics, brain and neural science, science of consciousness, etc. Such research and study provide guidance for his practice of meditation and experience of energy flow. Dr. Jin has written around 600 articles in Chinese regarding his personal experience of meditation, his research and the reports of patients on the effect of meditation upon their health in his wechat blog (wechat is the most popular app for social networking in China) in the past 10 years.

Gradually the said chronic health problems have all alleviated and the lymphoma has never deteriorated in the past 10 years without the use of any chemical or herbal medicine. With the deepening experience of energy flow and the improvement of his health condition in general, Dr. Jin has realized that it’s not simply about healing, but about the exploration of the true reality of our being and the ongoing transformation of our life. In addition to that, meditation might be taken as the practical dimension of philosophical study, so that the study of philosophy is no longer simply speculative, but can be tested in a way as practical and experimental as in particular branches of science.

Dr. Jin now lives in Shenzhen, China, working as a meditation teacher and doing relevant research as an independent researcher.

In September, 2019, Dr. Jin wrote an expert evidence for the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords of the UK in response to its inquiry of solution for an aging society, which is published at the Committee’s website:https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/344/pdf/.

here are two online presentations Dr. Jin have made, one for the Cobb Institute, California, and the other one for Milwaukee Zen Center, Wisconsin.

5. Feedbacks from Previous Participants and a case report

(1) Klara, Chinese Canadian, 51, lung cancer State IV

Klara received online private tutoring of meditation by Dr. Jin in July and August, 2021, after she was diagnosed to have lung cancer. She had 15 times of online private tutoring, each time 1 hour. After that she practiced meditation on her own. In addition to meditation, she took targeted medicine. Below is her report in March, 2022, which is translated into English by Dr. Jin.

“In the evening of Mar. 8, 2022, when I started to do meditation, I soon felt that Qi, which normally flew from the tailbone upwards along the spine and stopped at the back neck, went further upward to the back head and flowed into the nostrils, then it slowly went down the throat and reached the lower belly. After that I lost the control of my breathing.

The flow of Qi started to take control of the pace of my breathing automatically. It seemed as if I no longer needed breathing. With each out-breathing, Qi flowed into the belly and with each in-breathing, Qi flowed into the brain. Qi flowed throughout the whole body at the rhythm of breathing, as if the whole body was breathing. After the meditation, I felt very relaxed, energetic and joyful. Walking upstairs was as easy as walking on the ground for me.”

On October, 2022, she further reported that her CT examination indicated that a tumor in her right lung had become smaller, from 2.3*1.7 cm to 1.7*1.2 cm. No new tumor was found. All the existing tumors had become smaller or remained the same. Her oncologist, who knew she had been practicing meditation, was very impressed with the test result and said whatever she did worked perfectly for her.

(2)Janaina, Brazilian, 22, attended the workshop from May 30 – June 1, 2016 in Beijing

When Leo (Dr. Zhenbao Jin) told us about his meditation workshop, I got really interested and curious about how it would be. It seemed like a good idea, as I am a very anxious person, always in a hurry with my work and studies. Furthermore, it would be a great opportunity to know a little bit more about Chinese culture, one of my main goals in my trip to the country. 

When we first came to the meditation center, it was afternoon and we were supposed to have dinner together. After the dinner, Leo suggested us to have a small training of meditation for twenty minutes, just so we would have a first contact with it.

He taught us the basic rule of breathing, explaining us that we had to focus on the breathing out. At the beginning, I felt really insecure and apprehensive, especially because I am a worrywart, always concerned about several things at once. For me, it is hard to be calm and to concentrate in myself, in my interior, in my own body and mind.

As the minutes passed, I started to get calmer. It is really difficult to explain what I felt in these first twenty minutes of meditation. Initially, I felt really hot and my hands started to sweat a lot. Later, I forgot these sensations, and I felt much more comfortable and self-confident. An immediate response of my body was to salivate more than usual, and this symptom persists until now.

Also, I felt my mouth stretched, specially my jaws. It seemed like something was happening with my body, but I couldn’t explain in words what it was. I can assure, however, it was a good sensation.

After this first session, we have made some stretching together. In this moment, I realized my body was absolutely out of shape. There were some stretching positions I couldn’t do very well, and it was hard to maintain in the same way for long time. Last year was so hectic, I let all physical activities aside. 

On the day that followed, we started in the morning with a twenty-minute session of meditation. This second time was much stronger than the first and little by little I started to feel the energy flowing in my body. After this session, we have made the same stretching again, and step by step I felt my body more flexible. With practice, as time passed, it was much easier to achieve and maintain the stretching positions I found hard in the beginning.

The most interesting thing for me was that in the end of the day, I felt my posture much better and it was very easy to get straight. In the past years, I had problems of bad posture. I’d done many years of physiotherapy but keeping a good posture has always been a trouble for me. Now, I realize meditation is the only practice that really helps me to maintain a good body posture.

This made me think much about the “western” culture, in which I had been educated: in all of those years, I had been concerned with strengthening the muscles of my back, as I was taught that by doing so I could improve my posture. After the workshop, I learned to see things under another perspective, and now I see that focusing on energy helps me to understand better my own body and how it works. For me, it was very interesting to see the difference of cultures during the workshop. This experience made me more conscious about aspects of my education I had never realized before. 

As the days passed, I started to feel different sensations about floating energy and my capacity of concentration improved substantially. I felt less and less stressful with life in general. It was a really good experience, one of the most remarkable I had in China. I could learn to deal better with my own body and mind.

Besides, I could get in touch with Chinese cultures, religions and philosophies. I wish I can learn more and more about this country and its culture, which is so great and rich in all its diversity. I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to participate in this workshop and I am sure I will take this experience for the rest of my life.          

(3)Douglas, British, 38, attended the workshop from Mar. 16 to 18, 2019

I had been practicing meditation for some years before meeting Leo (Dr. Jin), I had been practicing in the Buddhist way, and I wanted to learn the Taoist way. I found Leo’s method very easy, natural and helpful. I agree with his opinions about the difference between Buddhist and Taoist meditation. So for me the course helped find a way of meditation that can heal me.

On the first session I could feel the energy moving to where it needs to go, and I could sense my thoughts and emotions moving with the current of energy. With each session I found the flow was stronger. Leo’s teachings are very simple and straight forward. It is obvious that he has come up with his own technique. It is fast and easy to learn from him as he embodies what he teaches.

Also the course was held in beautiful scenery and I felt more enthusiastic about physical exercise and jogging than usual. I still feel this way since finishing the course. I have been practicing his way of meditation ever since and I can see that it is effecting me and I am confident I can heal blocks in my body and mind with this practice.

It was also a great Chinese cultural experience, as I live in a modern Chinese city, and this is the kind of wisdom that I wanted to learn when I chose to live here. I think this course would be very good for a beginner as you can get a lot of results without all the discipline and hard work that is often taught with other meditation styles.

(4) Mrs. Lv, Chinese, 63, received private tutoring from Apr. 24 to June 7, 2023

Dr. Jin: Mrs. Lv was diagnosed to have lymphoma with bone metastasis in the beginning of 2022. She was hospitalized and had several rounds of chemotherapy. I was invited by her daughter to give her private tutoring. She could hardly move and had a lot of pain when the tutoring started. My work with her lasted for nearly 40 days and the training includes sitting meditation, standing meditation, walking, stretching, jogging, etc. Little by little her mobility improved and her pain was slowly alleviated. By the end of the tutoring she could jog slowly and walk in the mountain for half an hour. I hereby attach a video showing her change from April 24 to June 2.

6．some photos of Dr. Jin’s previous workshops:

July, 2019, London, 2-day workshop    

Oct. 2019, Madrid, Spain, 3-day workshop

Oct. 2019, Beijing, 5-day workshop                   

March 2023, Shenzhen, 7-day workshop

Taoist Meditation 

——A practice that boosts your self-healing power, maximizes your creativity and guides you into the deepest nature of yourself as a human being as well as the core of the Chinese Culture

Living in today’s world we no longer feed on bread or rice, but on information. There is never a time in the history of the mankind when our life is so overwhelmed by information, first by information from the Internet through computer, now by information from the mobile phone. A digitalized world overwhelmed by information could be much more addictive and destructive than alcohol or drugs. Its ability to mobilize resources puts the people in today’s world, especially those well-educated white collars on a production line that hardly stop and often runs much faster than it should. Bread or rice feed our body, while information feeds simply our mind and suppresses our body. This disconnection of mind and body withers our soul and causes all kinds of psychological and physical problems in our life, includes depression, insomnia, gastritis, and all kinds of tumors.

It’s no wonder that a new interesting phenomenon of our age is this fervent seek for spiritual teachings, as this seek is nothing else but the longing of a painful body and a lost mind for reunion. However, a common problem with many spiritual teachings in today’s world is that they points out the destination, but the way to it is often too obscure and hard to follow. The gap between the body and the mind remains deep and broad and the solutions offered by the orthodox medicine, whether it be drugs, surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, often prove more destructive than helpful.

When I was diagnosed to have lymphoma at the age of 38, 2 and a half years ago, after I had taught law in a law school for 7 years, won a doctor degree in a prestigious law school in Beijing and worked as a lawyer in one of the top 3 law firms in China. Although having no medical background, I refused to immediately have orthodox treatment of chemo as suggested by the doctor and decided to at least first try to heal myself. I launched a long distance cycling of more than 3000 kilometers from North China to South China in 2 months, and in the first ten days, my tumor dwindled by a half. After the trip is ended and I returned to Beijing, I started to practice Taoist meditation as advised by a friend. Since then I meditates for 2-3 hours each day in average and as a result, not only my lymphoma never deteriorates, but my other ailments, including atrophic gastritis, prostatitis, allergic rhinitis, ankylosing spondylitis (AS) as well as depression have all significantly receded or totally healed. Just as a wise ancient Chinese saying puts it, in each disaster lies a blessing, the scaring encounter with lymphoma finally opens a wonderful new world for me. This is a world of Qi, the miraculous healing power in our body unknown to western medicine, a world of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the ancient Chinese medical art of boosting and balancing the flow of Qi in our body and healing the body in a way that is very mysterious not only to most western people, but also to most Chinese people nowadays, and a world of Buddhism and Taoism, especially the latter, which reveals the most ignored truth of our being and constitutes the most fundamental basis of the Chinese culture. The more I become familiar with this new world, the more I admire the beauty of my own culture and its value for today’s world, for fulfilling the most urgent task of our time: to reunite the mind and body and thereby revitalize our withering soul.

Of course, with what is said above, I have no intention to deny the contribution of the western civilization to the spiritual growth of mankind, especially to the rationalization of the human consciousness. It’s this rationalization of the human consciousness that makes it possible for us to demystify und fully understand Buddhism and Taoism, and the traditional Chinese medicine and the intangible world of Qi as well. Anyway, this is a time for the ancient oriental wisdom and the relatively younger western wisdom to converge and jointly bring the consciousness of the mankind into a totally new age, in which a new civilization is to be born.

Therefore it’s an advantage of me that, as an academic deeply influenced by the western culture, I had seriously pondered over the methodology of scientific research and the philosophy of law, which is nothing else but the product of the long evolution of human consciousness and the benchmark of its rationalization. In comparison with those who follow the ancient oriental tradition of learning by sticking to a certain master, I can, on the basis of my own experience of meditation, freely draw on the different resources of knowledge of our time, including psychology, neurology, legal science, philosophy and especially anthroposophy, a new branch of science about the nature of the human being initiated by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), an Austrian philosopher, and come up with what I believe is a more comprehensive understanding of the human being, while the Taoist meditation is a reliable way that makes this understanding possible and accessible.

Accordingly, now my life has been fully remolded and focuses upon research in mental and physical health and the spiritual growth of the human being as individuals and as a society as well. I give lectures and workshops on Taoist meditation, traditional Chinese culture, health and spiritual growth in Beijing and other cities in China. Now I think it’s time also to share what I have learned in my life with friends from other cultures and benefit from their insights into our existence as human beings and today’s world. By now I write and give speeches and workshops simply in Chinese, but I will start to do so in English.

Here are some of what I have translated and written:

Translation:

From German to Chinese:

1. Einführung ins Recht (An Introduction of Law), Prof. Reinhold Zippelius, Press of China University of Politics and Law, 2007
2. Rechtsmethodenlehre (Legal Methodology), Prof. Reinhold Zippelius, Law Press, 2009
3. Rechtsphilosophy (Legal Philosophy), Prof. Reinhold Zippelius, Beijing University Press, 2013
4. Was ist Anthroposophy ( What is Anthroposophy), Heinz Zimmermann, to be published.
5. Das Leben hat Keinen Rückwärtsgang (The Life Has No Return), Wilfried Nelles, to be published.

From English to Chinese:

1. The Road Less Traveled, Morgan Scott Peck, not published

Essays in Chinese (all published in “Meditation and Health”，a blog which is read with mobile run by myself in China):

1. The Importance of Taoist Meditation
2. How I get rid of Lymphoma through long distance cycling and meditation
3. Meditation and the Prevention and Treatment of Depression
4. What is Meditation and its Method
5. Education as Medical Treatment and Medical Treatment as Education
6. Let the life be as Beautiful as Spring Flowers
7. The Human Being Striding towards Freedom: an Afterword of the translation of “Was ist Anthroposophy”
8. Anthroposophy and Anthroposophic Medicine
9. Freedom begins with Understanding of Our Being
10. Enjoying the life or Stopping the Pain? – The Difference between Taoist Meditation and Vipassana (1)-(4)
11. Sun: the Propelling Power of Evolution and the Basis of Civilization?
12. Taoist Meditation: the best check-up and the ideal therapy
13. Art, Meditation and Education
14. The 4 Pillars of Our Health
15. What Kind of Secondary School Education We Need? —— on the Preparation for Establishing the Secondary Grades at Nanshan Waldorf School in Beijing
16. The Failure of the Constitution Movement in Late Qing Dynasty in China and the Spiritual Growth of the Human Society
17. What do We Talk About when We Talk About Love
18. Live for Sex?

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