Best wishes on Chinese New Year!

Dear Taoist Light Cultivators, Clients, and Friend Circle,

Today is the Lunar or Chinese New Year of the powerful tiger. I wish you as much courage and strength as the tiger so as to let go of the past and move forward into a fantastic new year!

In the long journey of life, we meet many people who come into our lives either to offer help and support with positive experiences or to give us hard lessons with negative experiences. You are the ones I call positive affinities, so I would like to thank you for your support in the past year to Taoist Light Wellness and for your diligent practice and trust in the Tao—the source of immeasurable light and unceasing life force. These positive affinities are indeed precious and I regard this as the true abundance in life.

It has been a very turbulent and unprecedented period of time for the earth, and as conscious travelers, we can use any scenario as practice for inner wisdom and spiritual resilience, so even in the midst of adverse conditions as well as global problems, we do what we can to help and heal. People often ask if this coming year will be a good year or a bad year, but for a Taoist cultivator, every year is a good year, and every day is a good day; Spring is always coming after the coldest winter, and if there is Sunshine, there are always flowers blooming in the heart during the four seasons.

Through the consistent practice, I hope you will find yourself becoming healthier, more compassionate and peaceful every year.

The Lunar New Year usually lasts 15 days, which will be from Feb. 1st to the 15th this year. Besides the regular daily Taoist Light Qigong practice, you may calm the mind down by visualizing light all around you before going to sleep. This light will symbolically shine upon you all year long for clearing out the darkness and bringing higher vibration.

I wish you a year of good health, peace, and abundance; and may you collect a large basket of fruit from your cultivation.

Sending you much blessings and healing light,

Chiyan@TaoistLightWellness

www.Taoistlightqigong.com

P.S. Taoist Light Wellness will conduct "Fengshui 2022 workshop" on March 2nd, Wednesday, 3:00-5:00PM, for a healthy, smooth and successful year.

Art work by Liu Xian Tao

Tao Te Ching #41

A wise student hears of the Tao,

And practices it diligently.

An average student hears of the Tao,

And half believes and half doubts.

A foolish student hears of the Tao,

And laughs out loud.

If such a student did not laugh,

It would not be the Tao.

Thus it is said:

The path into light seems dark;

The path forward seems backward;

The path to tranquility seems rough.

Goodness so high seems humble;

Purity so great seems disgraceful;

Virtue so vast seems inadequate;

Virtue so stable seems unsteady;

Virtue so constant seems changeable.

The biggest heart has no dark corners;

The greatest talent seems delayed;

The greatest music seems silent;

The greatest form seems formless.

The great Tao is hidden and nameless,

Thus only the Tao can bring fulfillment to all.

Translated by Chiyan Wang

Edited by Noah Wang & R. H. S

39 – Tao Te Ching

These are who have obtained Tao in the past:

Heaven obtained Tao and became clear,

Earth obtained Tao and became tranquil,

The spiritual being obtained Tao and became divine,

The land obtained Tao and became abundant,

Everything obtained Tao and flourished,

Kings obtained Tao and became rulers.

On the other hand:

If Heaven is not clear,

it will split.

If Earth is not tranquil,

it will crumble.

If a spiritual being is not divine,

he/she will wither.

If the land is not abundant,

it will dry out.

If everything is not flourished,

they will become extinct.

If kings can not be honorable,

they will fall.

Therefore, humility is the basis of honor,

the low is the foundation of the high.

For this reason, kings call themselves “orphans”,

“lonely”, and “unworthy”

These names are all related to humility, are they not?

Thus the highest honor does not need praise,

So do not strive to be a shining jade,

and instead be as a common rock.

In ancient China, kings call themselves: “orphan” like a kid without parents, “lonely” like a man without wife; unworthy like a man without food to be humble.

Translated by Chiyan Wang

Edited By N&R Wang

Tao Te Ching - 38 quote

A master does not try to be good,

so he truly is good;

An ordinary man tries to be good,

so he fails to be good.

A master does not overdo (Wu wei),

nothing is left undone;

An ordinary man tries to overdo,

so much more needs to be done.

Translated by Chiyan Wang

Edited by N&R W.

Happy Moon Festival

It is the Moon Festival today!

The big, translucent, full-moon will bring nurturing and calming Yin energy. If you are Taoist Light cultivators, you may go out in this evening facing the big full moon and practice collecting Qi to infill your Qi channels with pure healing light shining from the Moon.

Enjoy watching the moon as it rises, gentle yet powerful.

Taoist Light Wellness would like to give great thanks to all students and clients for your support and confidence. May you and your loved ones stay healthy and safe.

Happy Moon Festival!

Painted by Chiyan Wang

Tao Te Ching - 23

Having few words is natural:

The wind does not blow all morning,

The rain does not fall all day.

What makes this so?

Heaven and earth.

Heaven and earth will not last forever,

Much less for human beings.

Those who follow the Tao

Are one with the Tao,

Those who follow the highest goodness

 Are one with the highest goodness.

Those who follow the loss of the Tao,

Are one with the loss of the Tao.

For those who are one with the Tao,

The Tao will be with them;

For those who are one with the highest goodness,

The highest goodness will be with them.

And those who lose the Tao,

The Tao will be lost to them.

For a trust that falls short is no trust at all.

Translated by Chiyan Wang, Taoist teacher

Edited by Robert Smitheram Ph.D in classic Chinese

Tao Te Ching – 33

To know others is smart,

To know oneself is wise.

To master others is strong,

To master oneself is powerful.

To be content is true wealth,

To be determined is willpower.

To stay in one's place is endurance,

To die but not perish is eternality.

Translated by Chiyan Wang

Edited by N&R Wang

22 - Tao Te Ching

Being resilient is to be whole;

Being bended is to be straight;

Being empty is to be full;

Being shattered is to be renewed.

Taking less is to gain more;

Too much desire will lead to delusion;

So Taoist cultivator upholds the one principle for all things.

Not trying to be seen,

so she shines;

Not boasting of what she has done,

So she gains;

Not being arrogant herself,

So she lasts long.

Since she does not contend,

None in the world can contend with her.

This saying from ancient times:

Being resilient is to be whole.

Are not empty words;

It can be truly achieved.

Translated by Chiyan Wang, founder of Taoist Light Wellness

Edited by Robert H. Smitheram Ph.D