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Tao Te Ching # 11

"Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there."
- Translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English, 1989

Hsin Hsin Ming, Sen T'san, 3rd Patriarch

We started this exposure to these almost a year ago. One month is a good start for contemplating each verse. This is the 10th verse, each month we will add one more until it is complete. Check the newsletter archive at Transformationarts.org for past months.

To come directly into harmony with this reality just simply say when doubt arises, "Not two." In this "not two" nothing is separate, nothing is excluded.
No matter when or where, enlightenment means entering this truth. And this truth is beyond extension or diminution in time or space; in it a single thought is ten thousand years.

Featured Acupuncturist

This month we would like to give a special honoring to Jody Herriott, LAC. She shares space at the Center for Chinese Medicine with Ken Bendat on 1180 Clear Creek Dr, Suite 104 in Ashland. Jody treats many conditions and specializes in NAET Allergy Elimination Technique. Her phone number is 541-621-3378 and website is on Facebook, click here.

Resources

For more information on the Benefits of Internal Arts; Tai Chi/QiGong/Yoga, please visit our science-Based Research and Clinical Trial Site AT: TaiChiUniversity.net

Tips for fall

Autumn is a time where the yang/warmth of the sun begins to lessen and give way to the yin/cooler seasons of fall and winter. In autumn one must begin to store vital energy in order to make it through the winter in a healthy state. One must slow down from the sometimes frenetic activity of the summer. The movement of autumn in Chinese medicine is downward, and this is evident in the root-based vegetables that are available during that time. These veggies reach down into the ground to acquire their energy which we consume to acquire that energy.

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"Create health and longevity through the practices of Tai Chi and Chi Gung"

Upcoming Introductions and Workshops

GROUNDING:

The Single Most Useful Tool in:
RELATIONSHIPS,
MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP...

Transformation Arts invites you to join us for our educational free-talk series on this “personal medicine” and the practice aspects of developing Grounding. The inner life education of Wellness and how to heal, is a practical science and comes from our relationship with Grounding. Grounding “stabilizes”, and become the foundation for all forms of balance, maintaining equilibrium when things change, and the calm and clarity to shift in a timely fashion. All our relationships, situations of “managing” , and all our calls to the varying forms of leadership and Human inter-action, ALL, rely & refine with Grounding Skills...

The three introductions listed below are free to the public.

Relationships: Monday, Nov. 22nd 2010, @ the Talent Library @ 6:30pm

Management: Wednesday, Dec. 1st 2010, @ the Medford Library @ 5:30pm

Leadership: Friday, Dec. 3rd 2010, @ the Ashland Library @ 6:30pm

Following the introductions, there will be a...

Workshop:
Saturday, Dec. 4th 2010, @ Agile Healing Arts
842 A St, Ashland
9:00am-12:00pm
Cost: $50

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Earth Medicines, the Healing Power of Grounding
by Michael Vasquez

Everyday, we spend time walking, standing sitting and lying down. We inter-act will the Earth everyday, all day long and she gives to us, all day long. What is given is natural and free to all that stay true to their nature. It is a type of power that is continuously generated and openly shared with all living things; the chi of the Earth. Its strength emanates out from below our feet and so we experience it as “rising” through us, and so we have a natural instinct to connect to it deeply. Our bodies, when we are in good health, function like a tube or vessel that it flows through and we can make use of it, its teachings and special qualities that come from this “mother energy”. It is how she, the Earth, takes care of us.

As a Native and practitioner of the Internal Arts, I have been invited to understand the teachings from our closest relative, for my whole life. I am not special this way as the teachings are for us all and can be received by anyone, at any time. Both the Native and Chinese way of life understand the fundamental need to receive these teachings, take care of her, and embody the gifts. To embody the gifts and receive the teachings is to become the Earth and understand we are made up of it.

So how does one begin, where do we start? For so many of us, we have been exposed to the more material or visible aspects of the teachings and general understandings about the Earth; nature, seasons and cycles, ecology, pollution, sustainability, the animal kingdom, plants, Earth changes, geology, basic elemental relationships; fire, water, air, metal etc. We see the cause and effect of Earth and the environment she provides, what come forth from her, what lives on her, what we have done to her without for-thought and what she provides for us, always absorbing our transgressions against her. Perhaps it is the essence of her gifts to each of us that she offers, that can un-cover our trespasses and right our relations with her.

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