Grow, change, beyond the material world and limits and expand your awareness and vision. Come into your heart feeling to understand what is there for you, what do you get. Discover what is your potential, your spiritual potential as well as your material potential. Your willingness to risk versus your comfort zone establishes your horizon.

Why is your vision short? Why can you not see beyond the horizon? Are you ready to explore the “unknown world”? Full potential is sweet like chocolate but what will it take to get you off the couch? Do you believe that you are really the one to succeed?

What is your vision? Each one is different. Your character should be unknown and exciting. Don’t limit you self to one character, you should have multiple and have no cap. Don’t pre-program yourself to just one role. People tend to associate themselves with what they are most comfortable with – this is very limiting. To enlarge your vision you must undo what you have done – not just by talking but by taking action!

In any situation be flexible like a dragon, yielding between heaven and earth. Allow your human nature to unfold. Sleep above the fire; get out of your comfort zone! First you must undo what you know, you must go beyond your knowledge and comfort, let go of shame, and the concept of who you are.

Nobody can defeat you but yourself. But, if you can defeat yourself first, then you are always a winner! That is, if you can detach from your comfort zone and let go of what Mommy and Daddy said. Stop pushing responsibility to someone else or pointing the finger, take responsibility. Form a comfort zone about your situation. Forgive!

Leave the possibilities of who “I am” in the hands of God. God knows. Why do we take only one thing that God gave us instead of all things that God gave us?

If we cannot laugh or smile we are depressed spiritually and emotionally. Listen to your inner voice, your spiritual voice, don’t ignore it! We must pull out the needles, but when and how is purely personal. Leave yourself flexibility. To embrace God your spirit must be pure and your heart must be open. God is very positive, so you must release the negative to be close to God. When we pull out the needle is strictly a personal choice! When you hear the voice, open the door completely, God is so big.

When inner wisdom calls you, get off the couch, open the door, accept the wisdom. If you decide to disobey the inner voice, you are the first victim. The Tao is a selfish Tao. The Tao teaches you to take care of your body, mind, and spirit first, before you can take care of others. To be a champion, see yourself as a champion on the podium now!

First Question: What is your vision? What do you want to be? Most often you’ll have multiple visions; all of them are your vision. Do not limit your vision, be brave, full of potential. You must be willing to take the risk. Dare to Be! Say “I can do it!”

Spirit, mind and body become one unit. Spiritual and material go hand in hand. You must undo and detach from greed. Care about the effort and not about the result. Don’t attach to the result. The goal is virtue and loving. You cannot change the world but you can change yourself.

Live in your dream. If you don’t dare to dream then you can never achieve. Challenge yourself often to go outside of your boundaries. We can always play the blaming game, but always know that it is an excuse every day.

One side of you is structured, one side of you is unlimited potential; unlimited possibility! Believe and trust! Take action.

Step 2 is to dream smart. Yield, work with what you are, don’t dream beyond what you can achieve. Dream in stages. Learn to set goals. You must work with your actual body, mind and spirit. Get there with your body, mind and spirit and not just a dummy head.

How many of you ever ask God: “I desire this…", “Let me try this…” Always take action – don’t just stick your butt on a cold chair and shiver. If there is a problem there is always a solution. The solution you make is always a smart one because it’s better than doing nothing. Smile and ask! Ask God for help – be charming, ask with sincerity, joy and respect! Joy is the power that makes the earth turn!

Include others in your dream! Don’t just think about me, me, me. Share your joy and power! Returning is the motion of the Dao – give 1, get 3. It takes wisdom to give 1. If you are willing to give 1, you will return to your 3. Your dream should include others, facilitating for others. Are you here to possess or to facilitate. The most powerful dreams include the world.

When you look at your dream, you can tell if it is good quality, it will move like a horse (not a donkey). Be who you are. Don’t be fake. Be careful, be sincere. Heaven knows who you are. Walk the talk! Be yourself.

Your son and daughter will model after you, so be real, be consistent, show the most positive part of yourself. You are their window of the world. If you are always stressed you cannot teach true happiness. True happiness starts in your heart. Show your children the best of the world. Show them happiness. You have to start somewhere, carving the wood (see last blog) even if you have to fake it a bit when you begin. Teach the joy and happiness that is out there.

Your dream is for yourself first; it’s not about how others look at you. That sucks away your joy. Things happen for a reason. Everyone walks in their own shoes. You can always learn from somebody.

Step 3 to manifesting your dream is a healthy body! Good Qi leads to a prosperous dream. Good Qi leads to good luck. The human body has its three treasures: Jing, Qi and Shen. Jing and Qi are like the water in which the Shen swims. If Jing is weak, then Qi will be weak. The Shen is the spirit, your wisdom, God in you. It is your conscience telling you right and wrong. In the end the form, the body, disappears but Shen lasts forever. It travels. It’s spooky. Today you live in this earth.

The quantity and quality of water determine quality and happiness of the fish which equals luck. The boat rises with the tide. Don’t look outside for some secret. Do the work! “My life is in my own hands, not in heaven’s!” You must do the work yourself. Meditate, do Qi Gong. Practice health improvement techniques and your life will change. Do Tai Chi, Qi Gong, meditate, etc.

Build a happy spirit. Then you will be happy no matter what. Once you have that attitude the green stuff will fall from the sky – you won’t be able to stop it.

Never bargain with God. Say “Thank you God.”

Once your spirit is enriched the material will follow. You must have both to be balanced. Spirit comes first. You can’t reject either the spirit or the material. Jing and Qi are the power behind the dream. Improve your Jing and Qi, nourish your Shen and then you will prosper.

So first improve your attitude – release attachment and emotions, then dream smart, and third improve your Jing, Qi and Shen cultivating a healthy body.

Don’t wait for confirmation. Always put a golden face on first. Cheer yourself, confirm yourself. Don’t take away your joy with judgment. It’s entertainment! Enjoy one minute of pride and then it’s over. Grief, anger, etc., allow one minute only. Let yourself be your own savior.

What are your dreams? Peace? What are your higher level dreams? What is your higher level purpose? It’s great to have a purpose. Many of us have blurry purpose. It’s nice to get clarity. What are your dreams for health? You need a healthy body for long journey. After life still have another journey to go…

What is our view of the next journey? What is it? Why? Do you want prosperity? We don’t have to live poor or persecute to be rich. Prosperity is a reward of virtue. If you are a virtuous person then dream big! Don’t dream small.

How many of you not dare to dream big? You have the right to dream big. First must adjust your attitude; if you don’t believe you deserve success then you must change your attitude. Second you must dream smart, and third you must generate power behind your dream.

Why do your dreams not seem to come?

To apply this philosophy and take action is needed. How many put their idea into a plan. You need a strategy to achieve your goal. You must set philosophy. You must learn to yield; when water comes from the mountain it always winds around. You must know when and how to yield.

Talk in detail about dreams: money, sexy man, etc. First touch your heart and ask: am I the one to have this? The answer is yes! Because we are all equal between heaven and earth, we share the same space, we are equal, we have the same right to creation. Do not open the door to being less than an other. Give the right of equality, creativity to all, especially to the self. Give the self the right and the possibility of survival and creation. Thinking you are not worthy is your own worst enemy. Step 1 is to say “I Can Do It!” This is most important! You must believe “I am the one.” God has given the right to me. I am the one. No one can take away my right to enter heaven. We all have free access to heaven. Then we just have to know we are the one. No one can block you.

Taoist priests encourage everyone to live with dignity. Never look down on anyone! We all have equal access. Everyone has the right to enter heaven. Do not let anyone manipulate your free will. Don’t let anyone take away your right to pursue happiness and heaven.

Taoists encourage free dialogue, open dialogue, first with yourself. God is inside you. Dialogue often with the best of your wisdom and conscience. It is the best! This is direct dialogue. Indirect dialogue would be to go to my lecture, read book, watch DVDs, and such.

Don’t give your power away. You all have different standards of what is right and wrong. Don’t persecute yourself for not being the best parent. You’ve done the best because your intention was right. Don’t feel guilty if not accepted by your children or if you have problems with your parents, just cut the tie that binds – it’s a game, let go of the guilt. Guilt can eat you alive.

Emotions can be heavy baggage. You must strip them all off and run naked to the gate. Laugh at yourself as you hold on before your last breath. You can’t take anything with you but the laugh. The happiness is the only thing you can take with you!

You must learn how to open your hands to enjoy everything. Detach from your emotional and material desire. But, we are alive, so we must have some desire. We still need a roof over our head, to have bread and butter, so approach it with humor. Don’t live with fear or violence. Live with happiness, with a smile.

Happiness is the main purpose of life. So how to understand this? Everybody has enough. Every day we have enough, we just don’t know it. We don’t know how to enjoy it. Whether you have one dollar or one million dollars it’s all the same – enjoy what you have.

If you don’t form a healthy attitude to differentiate between spiritual and material wealth then you have created a living hell you struggle because you don’t know how to entertain life. You must learn to entertain life. Work with what you have. If you give two artists the same log they will create very different things. Work with what you have. The Tao follows what is nature. If you are born at a farmer’s home then be a farmer. If you want to be a leader in the world, then you have to deal with people’s stuff. Make the best of what you have! Enjoy what you have because then you can manifest more.

Healthy mind, healthy body, right attitude: no matter what have the same dignity, the same respect. If you change your tone, then you change your core. You must appreciate where you came from, have loyalty to friends, family, teachers. They are where you came from! Have the same attitude about where came from and who you are. Then you don’t change yourself. Remember the nature of who you are and where you came from!

You can’t dream on the empty ground. You have to accept the foundation first. The ground is most important. No matter how low or how high, can you always connect with this ground? If not your dream is a bubble.

Much disease is triggered by stress, an unhealthy environment. To be healthy we need a tranquil mind. If you adjust the mind, the lifestyle, you can extend your life. Seek the Void. How do you find the Void? Stop, be still, take a good deep breath, look inside.

Be stillness. Look inside. Stop! Free the emotions, let go of the ego, accept the nature of self and follow the flow of life. Are you a practitioner or an observer? When you achieve 80% tranquility you will have total healing, curing, and prevention of disease. Achieving 60% tranquility allows you to maintain your self.

If you let go of the ego then you no longer have fear, desire, etc. Accept the nature of the self. Rather than saying “I could be better” say “I am better now!” We keep chasing the shadow of the self – be happy with who, what, where you are. Stop stressing yourself; take the stress off!

Until you are a practitioner life is passing you by. If you take action now you can change your life, discover that life is full of joy!

When we are conceived Yang Qi and Yin Qi combine. The new life has no spirit yet, just form. On the day of birth the spirit from the Tao enters the form and it has true meaning. The spirit enters based on the balance or level of Yin/Yang in the form. The spirit enters when the eyes open. The spirit is pure Yang – heaven is Yang, eart is Yin. Ren and Du channels are touching when we are in the womb. Once we open our mouth they disconnect and we go to post-heaven Qi.

To preserve life we must lose the desire to extend life. You can rebuild Yang Qi by practicing Qi Gong and meditation to create Jing. Sex is the first threat to human life. It depletes Yang Jing which is life power. You can’t screw all the time and have a long life. Dedicated Qi effort can rebuild Yang Qi. In 100 days can rebuild one Yang. In 600 days can rebuild entire Yang energy foundation. This is produced by a peaceful mind.

Practice virtue; disciplined practice! Be a nice person! Introspect and take the mask off even though it is painful. It takes wisdom to know that it is beneficial to remove the mask. Every time you put a mask on you are committing spiritual suicide.

Pre-heaven Qi is our basic life force. It is in the kidneys. Kidney deficiency shows as low back pain, plus more, and eventually death. You must learn to “tune up” your engine and cultivate kidney energy. No matter what stage of life you are in, you can improve. To have an efficient rebuild of the essential energy, the mind and technique must be in synch. The mind must be calm. The mind must be in the same path. The mind is primary. Release the concept of who “I am". Naming limits the spiritual ability to reach out.

Live in the philosophy without trying to explain it. Use a high degree of intuition. After we are born, over time, the Shi Shen becomes stronger, Yuan Shen gets reduced, we lose our intuition as we “educate” our mind, as intelligence takes over. At night the Yuan Shen, the true intelligent spirit, takes over in our dreams. The psychic ability takes over. We don’t remember our dreams when our Qi is not strong enough.

The road to health, long life and immortality is the transmuting of Jing to Qi, Qi to Shen, returning Shen to the Void and uniting Void with the Dao. How to start? Be still, look within, stop the emotions, be happy, save Jing. The Daoist Priests’ daily “mantra” is Wu Wei Er Wu Bu Wei – Do Nothing and Leave Nothing Undone.

Be still – mentally, physically, emotionally.
Look within – remove the masks,
Stop the emotions – let go of desire.
Be Happy – flip the coin and enjoy every moment
Save Jing.

Tranquility is the root of the Dao, the root of healing without medicine.

The Dao De Jing was written about 2500 years ago, during the Zhou dynasty, by Lao Zi. There are many opinions but little fact is known about Lao Zi. All agree that he worked in the Imperial library. He was responsible for documenting Chinese history. He eventually left the Imperial employ and went west to Hangu Pass. It is believed that he was already immortal.

Lao Zi’s student Yi Xi was his successor. Yi Xi went to the gateway and awaited Lao Zi’s arrival. He waited for seven days. Lao Zi arrived riding on his bull. Yi Xi knelt to him and requested that Lao Zi teach him the knowledge of immortality. Lao Zi agreed to stay and teach. They went to Shang Xi Province to Lou Tai Guan Temple and wrote down about 5000 words – the 81 chapters of the Dao De Jing. Then Yi Xi passed down the writings.

Over the years the meanings for the Chinese characters have evolved. In addition no punctuation was used in the original text, so many translation and interpretation versions have been generated over the years. The characters have changed as well.

The Dao De Jing is the “Bible” of the Taoist religion. There are few translations that have been done from the nourishing life perspective. The translations done from the internal alchemy perspective vary based on the level of the practice of the translator. There are different “key holes” of perspective because the post heaven intelligence is at work when translating. The Dao cannot be understood empirically.

For 500 years after Lao Zi passed down the Dao De Jing and disappeared there were reports of him being seen. Sightings still occur today – like a Red Dragon.

The Dao De Jing unfolds the secret of immortality in the first chapter. In 2500 years fewer than 100 people have broken through the code. It takes either great, great intelligence or to be a super dummy to break through.

De=Virtue. People who break through have great virtue. The whole book speaks of only two things – The Dao or cosmos and Virtue or what life is about. It is a scripture about Dao and Virtue: the cosmos and life. Dao and Virtue are the origin of the cosmos and life. Dao is the path. Follow Lao Zi’s practice and never fail: the law, principle, rule of the cosmos. De is virtue – the application of the rule or principle of the cosmos by a person or living being.

Lao Zi used himself to know the cosmos. The most perfect instrument that we have is the body. Your body is the cosmos. Your spirit body is the Dao. The physical body is the vehicle for the spirit body, a container. Dao plus container –the method to be used with the body is meditation –through a special technique Lao Zi consciously entered the world visionary stage, the stage between yes and no, the border between reality and non-reality, the void, emptiness, no-time, no space, the direct sensing stage. Xiu Dao = Practice Dao – to directly experience and recognize the Dao. Practice of Dao changes the mind and body. The body changes as a side effect of the practice. Practice the Dao of Nourishing Life. Hair loses grey, senses become sharper.

There are normally three methods of research by humans: study of the material world, study of the spiritual world, study of both, all using knowledge, theory and logic. This only scratches the surface. It is limited. It only reflects the surface of reality. To gain direct knowledge you must put mind and soul into research and study to get non-relative perception, non-judgmental awareness. The methodology is written in the Dao De Jing.

The Principle of Polarity is in the Dao De Jing. Human is physical body and spiritual body or life force. Living person has life force, Shen or spirit and Ming or physical body. The container or body gives the Dao a condition to see its effect. Dao is not visible but is active all around us. We see it in the procession of seasons, growth of a seed, birth of a baby.

The human body has living power and intelligence or wisdom. The passion of the Dao is Virtue. We are the power of passion. The Chang or cosmos field and the living physical field are the polarity in which we exist. Attachment to emotion makes the polarity become visible: the seven emotions and 6 desires. Thought vibrates the energy field. We become controlled or affected by our thoughts and emotions. The way to have stillness in the energy field is to reduce thought to a minimum. We must go back to the origin of thought. For example you have to look at the origin of anger in your heart. Take a step back and you own the ocean and the earth, take a step forward and you will not have even an inch.

The Dao is like the ocean, each of us is like a wave. Stillness creates the wave. The harmony, unity of balance is the Dao; non-polarity and balance. Become desire-less, look inward, stay with the spirit and regulate the breath, stay with the conscious mind, drop the eyelids, seal the ear, enter the stage of the visionary – between black and white!