The Shining Mind
The shining mind is always calm; in action, it responds to
myriad changes. Even when active, it is essentially always calm.
The wandering mind is always stirring; in quietude it produces myriad thoughts.
Even when quiet, it is basically always astir.
Of old it has been said, always extinguish the stirring mind, don't extinguish the shining mind. The unstirring mind is the shining mind; The mind which does not stop is the wandering mind.
The shining mind is the mind of Tao, the wandering mind is the human mind. When it is said that the mind of Tao is vague, this means it is subtle and difficult to see. When it is said the the human mind is in peril, this means it is insecure and uneasy.
Even in the human mind there is the mind of Tao; even in the mind of Tao there is the human mind.
It is a matter of keeping persistently centered and balanced in activity and stillness, so that the shining mind is always present and the wandering mind does not stir. Then what was insecure will become peaceful, and what was vague will become clear.
When this happens the errant mind comes back and the error-free Tao is accomplished. This is what the I Ching calls 'coming back to see the heart of heaven and earth, the creative and receptive.'
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Transformative Nature of Transformative Tao
Taoism is difficult to define. It is the object of its own attention, the means and matters, a manner of expression that varies vastly. There is no conceptual framework encompassing all the manifestations of Taoism's thought and action.
The unity is internal; a means of holding the external occurring world as material. According to Huainanzi, the Tao is that by virtue of which the mountains are high, the oceans deep, by virtue of which animals run, birds fly, the sun and moon are bright. Thomas Clearly interprets this to say Tao is the general and specific law of the universe. Everything has it's Tao, and every Tao is a reflection of the Great Tao, the universal Tao that underlies all things.
Transformative Tao encapsulates a Zen Taoism through a process using specific techniques. The mechanism that fires a Transformative Tao experience is an I Ching Mandala reflecting a specific inquiry.
The Transformative Tao use of the I Ching is the gradual enlightenment understanding of the text as a representation of the total process of a structured praxis. The means and matters, habits and happenstance, encounters and manifestations of the external world are held as material expressions of becoming enlightened.
Transformative Tao uses one of the most distinguished contributions of esoteric Taoism to I Ching learning; I Ching Mandala. A Transformative Tao Mandala is pictured below.
Transformative Tao carries on the diagrams and arcana attributed to Taoist fangshi of the Han dynasty (206BC-219CE) that became public during the Song dynasty (960-1278CE).
The Mandala's contain both the practical meditative lore behind the I Ching and structured programs for engaging the text.
Transformative Tao is an open channel to, in Taoist lore; mystic luxuriant gardens with vast skies above. One sojourns their world within worlds in a Zen shojo, The transformative nature is becoming free of suffering, chaos and absurdity while moving through the occurring world. Living becomes instinctual and intuitive, creativity flows, time loses it's meaning, the ten thousand things appear and drop away in the nature of the time one is in. That's liberated transformation; the philosopher's stone.
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1976Sojourn the Currents of the Occurring WorldsDale Bruder is a life student of the Tao through the I Ching. Since 1976 he has been applying the I Ching to his self the way psychoanalysts and Zen teachers apply psychoanalysis or Zen to themselves before presenting to others.His studies of Taoism centers on the 11th-12th century, during the Sung and Yuan Dynasty's. He has broad understandings of Buddhist and Confucian I Ching texts.
In the process of his studies and applications he has come to understand the creative energies. Through experiemntation and proto types he developed several implements that access the I Ching.
His journey is to settle water into fire, a balance and harmony where creativity rises.
Life is cyclical and sequential; a series of events and episodes that advances or reverses goals and aspirations.Making use of and learning from the experience is a key component of a well lived life. Using the Tao Time path changes the social, cultural, technological and economic push/pulls into a flow that is navigable.Dale Bruder, a business intelligence consultant, invites you to play the infinite game.(520) 331-1956Newsletters
The I Ching or Book of Changes, the oldest and most profound of the Chinese classics, has gained widespread acceptance in many fields of interest in the contemporary West. Starting with the simplest principles conceivable to the human mind, it elaborates a structure of structures that has long been used to analyze phenomena in all areas of human interest.
Today there is great interest in the application of the principles of the I Ching and derivative texts on strategy in the business and political world as well as in the context of personal life.The Thomas Clearly translations of
Two books by Guy Damian Knight
On the New Moon begin a 72 Day Transformative Tao seminar taking participants through an I Ching sojourn. Transformative Tao Sojourn $90
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520-331-1956 or email to Begin Your Transformative Tao InquiryYou can leverage the wisdom of the ages in your efforts to make the most of your powers and capabilities at this time and in this place.When you can discern changes, the I Ching becomes available to you. Introduce your self to the cosmic flow with the three currents. Take a sojourn through between 24 and 36 hexagrams in a Transformative Tao Sojourn.
The Three Currents takes between 6 and 18 days to come to realization, Transformative Tao between 72 and 90 days.
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The ecstasy of timelessness as Begetting, Becoming, Begoning is embodied in Tao Time.
Formulated 3,500 years ago in 64 interactive social and cultural messages about human and social interactions, the I Ching adapts and flexes shape in processes and procedures to navigate the means and matters that flow.
Through observation, detail and predication the I Ching channels timeless energies. Following the forms of evolving and devolving leads to an ideal state of being. This is TaoTransformative Tao is one of those instruments. The 72 day sojourn between two and a half lunar cycles builds and releases energy creating momentum in realizing the appropriate manifestation of an inquiry made of the oracle.
Transformative Tao is a 14 part seminar on understanding and applying intentionally called actions.Through a methodological use of the I Ching, or the Book of Changes,one can access and apply the wisdom in current times.
Applying the wisdom of the Tao, or the Way, always brings you exactly what you need when you need it to stay successful no matter the circumstances. Everything is useful in the Tao.
The Oracle is the I Ching, a construction of eight trigrams that form a combination of sixty four hexagrams that describes humans social and cultural activities.
The Zen Taoism of Tao Time
The most fundamental application of Tao Time Zen Taoism is allow yourself to be, so that your life may become a time of blossoming.
Through the implement I Ching, Tao Time's gateless gateways of Three Currents, Twelve Branches and Fate Sequence navigate the chaos, suffering and absurdity of the occurring world. Being in a Tao Time process one comes to seek the courage to be, to engage yourself, your recognitions and correspondence.
The Process of Each Tao Time Way Is
1. Be in the time you are in,2. Be in the flow of your life activity; intention, habits and happenstance.
3. Be in clarity and insight to see, hear and feel the ebbs, flows, stillness of your waves in current and coming time.
Tao Time's Zen Taoism is a mixture of the pragmatic and ideological, of the straight-forward and the mystical, of the physical and the psychological, the prosaic and the poetic.
The Zen Shojo
There are five varieties of Zen from ordinary (Bompu), the outside way (Gedo), small vehicle (Shojo), great vehicle (Daijo) and highest vehicle (Saijojo). Each is a specific practice to attain certain and specific natures of being of body and mind.
The Shojo is designed to take one from one state of mind to another. This small vehicle is so named because it is designed to accommodate only one's self. This is an expedient Zen focused on the early Hinayana teachings of Buddha; self liberation, to be free of the suffering, chaos and absurdity of the ordinary world.
Through the twelve branches I Ching structures one moves through human situations, the nature of existence and the structure of individuality towards deepening living an engaged creative life.
A totally experiential process, the Transformative Tao sojourn landscape is one's life activities, including intentional, habitual and happenstance. Everything is material, those you encounter deliver messages, things are given and taken away, stuff happens.
A well designed, diligently applied Transformative Tao shojo navigates one's occurring world. One designs their vehicle in the Tao Time seminar experience and codifies the inquiry at the pre-new moon session. The engine is nucleating the cast hexagram response from the Tao oracle. Over 72 days through two and a half lunar cycles the engine evolves twelve times returning to itself on the twelfth branch.
The changes in reality are measured in means and matters of one's dharma or occurring world. Whatever one is focused on; personal development, enterprise activity, spiritual deepening, or circumstance transformations, to name a few examples, benefits in the Shojo of a Transformative Tao journey in the gateless garden.
One's kufu; the realization of individual creative potential - the one technique which still remains when all techniques are learned is available through the Tao Time processes.
Zen Taoism is informal. Ritual when useful, Pragmatic action orientation, like a sleeping tiger, immediately alert.
Folded into the Tao Time is the precept be creative and receptive, transcending subject/object dichotomy.
Transcendence is to overcome or rise above, dichotomy is to separate or divide into two, subject is frequently represented by 'I', object is frequently accomplished by subject, or the person or thing to whom something is done.
Tao Time, through Zen Shojo disciplines, provides one the means and matters to overcome (transcend) that which divides or separates (dichotomy) us (subject) from what we do, or the person or thing (object) to which we are trying to relate. It provides a landscape where the ghost between the teeth is released and an infinite way of doing things is available,
To be in a Tao Time Zen Taoism way is the Be of Be, Do, Have where Begetting, Becoming, Begoning is the landscape. Be like water,
The Mandalas of Transformative TaoThe Sanskrit word Mandala has the meanings of a circle, a sphere, a territory or a group, In Buddhism the word is applied to sacred art designed to present compendia of teachings. In most cases their advantage as educational tools lies in their immediate, nonlinear presentation of interrelated ideas to be held in mind together.
First used in the Taoist schools of the early centuries CE, I Ching Mandala came into the public domain during the Sung dynasty between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. There are various sets of I Ching Mandala, with common and different designs. Generally speaking, there are two major functions associated with these Mandala. One is to encapsulate the foundation of the ideas underlying the I Ching, the other is to encapsulate models of I Ching organizational patterns or study courses. A basic characteristic of these functions is that they are interdependent, as are all of the teachings of the I Ching itself.
The Transformative Tao mandalas encapsulate models of I Ching evolutionary patterns known as the twelve branches. Each of the sixteen Mandala presents a progressed pathway of engaging the I Ching towards the realization of a way of being and the manifestation of something. Through a progression of hexagrams seventy-two I Ching lines are engaged in a specific order. The process creates a result while contributing to the enlightenment of the participant.
The sixteen Transformative Tao Mandala are based on the nuclear hexagrams of the I Ching. Each Mandala is an up-leveling of transformational and evolutionary applications. As the Synchronistic Response of a specific inquiry, each nuclear hexagram is the seed for the begetting, becoming and begoing of a human generated event or episode. Twelve hexagrams displayed in the Mandala provide means of processing material that rises up and is transcended. The orderly discipline of moving means and matters through to completion while personally developing spirit, mind and body is a benefit of the process.
A personal Mandala is identified through the Tao Time process and a structured discipline that proceeds one through a transformational process is available for you. Be in a Zen Taoist way where Being in Begetting, Becoming, Begoning is the landscape. Be like water,
