Chinese Wisdom Traditions
Master Zhongxian Wu
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GanZhi Advanced Daoist Arts – DiZi 地支 – Charles Town, WV 2022
September 20, 2022 @ 6:30 pm – September 25, 2022 @ 12:30 pm America/New_York
Cost
To qualify for the early bird pricing, please pay your $500 non-refundable deposit by July 1, 2022 (Central European Time).
Price ($2000) includes tuition, shared lodging and all meals. A limited number of private rooms are available for an additional $280.
Please email Master Wu for the mailing address to send your check.
Zoom option
If you would like to attend the retreat via Zoom, please email Master Wu for details.
GanZhi Advanced Daoist Arts
I developed the GanZhi Advanced Daoist Arts program to preserve the use of the Stems and Branches in classical Chinese healing arts, internal cultivation practice, and in Yijing divination techniques, as well as to create an international network of practitioners and teachers skilled in the deepest roots of China’s ancient wisdom traditions.
This program is based on an unbroken lineage of Daoist oral tradition, the Song Dynasty astrology classic, DiTianShui 滴天髓, the HuangDiNeiJing 黃帝內經, and the DaoDeJing 道德經. Guided by principles of the Yijing易經, one of the oldest classical Chinese texts, the structure of this program includes four levels of training: Yuan 元, Heng 亨, Li 利, and Zhen 貞. To help students deepen and embody their understanding of these ancient arts, we share secret Daoist internal alchemy practices throughout each level of the program.
Prerequisites
The first two levels, Yuan 元 and Heng 亨, may be taken in any order. Both levels must be completed in order to continue with Li 利 and Zhen 貞.
Course description: Heng 亨– DiZhi 地支
亨者嘉之會也
HengZheJiaZhiHuiYe
Heng is the assembly of prosperity*
Heng means connection, communication, great and flow. In the Yijing, it is the symbol for offering sacrifice, ritual, abundance, summer, southern direction, humbleness, and humility.
In this level, we focus on Heng– the skillful use the DiZhi (12 Earthly Branches) to help bring prosperity into the lives. This course will cover:
JiChu 基礎 (Foundations)
DiZhi internal alchemy and healing principles; Chinese calligraphy (12 DiZhi symbols); DiZhi symbolism and numerology; the meanings of the hidden Stems within the Branches
Fa 灋 (Cultivation Practice)
Zhen 震; TianGan NeiGong XinFa; ShuiGong 睡功; DiZhi NeiGong XinFa 地支內功心灋 (DiZhi internal alchemy standing and sitting meditation)
Required reading
Upon arrival, all students are expected to have completed in depth self-study of chapter 2, “TianGan XiangShu: Heavenly Stems Symbolism” of our text book, Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches -TianGan DiZhi.
Recommended reading
It will be very beneficial if all students come to the retreat with familiarity of the content of chapter 3, “DiZhi XianShu: Earthly Stems Symbolism” of the aforementioned text book.
