Because I teach today Taiyi Xiaoyao Boxing I think it is also a good idea to spend some more thoughts on my shifu You Xuande. You will find him also in several pictures in my Gallery. You Xuande is considered by many as a living model of Wudang tradition. In fact he is the acting head of Wudang pai tradition, following in the footsteps of Zhang sanfeng and Zhang Shouqing, founding fathers of Wudang pai and Taijiquan and Taiyizhang resepctively.

Shifu You Xuande is born in the city of Jinzhou, Hubei province in China. He started to learn martial arts from his father since the age of 5. At the age of 14 he is sent by his father to the monasteries of the Mountains of Wudang, where he is accepted by Grand Master Wang Tongsheng as his pupil. He was ordained a monk at 15 years of age. From there began the course of his traditional studies as a Daoist monk that alternates with a strict physical discipline and the study of classical texts, concluded at his 24 birthyear with a degree in history and philosophy. He continued his studies at the Chengdu Qingchenshan  and Qingyang Daoist resorts with masters Zhu and Wang Weishen (Abbot of the "Temple of Heaven"). You Xuande achieved great martial arts skills, which makes him into an example with almost no comparison in the Sacred Mountains. His great knowledge of Nei Gong (qigong) and meditation only became deeper with the passing years. 

Shifu You Xuande is considered one of the wushu treasures in the world of chinese Gongfu, and an expert connoisseur of Interior's fighting styles such as the Wudang Bagua, Xing-Yi, Wudang Taiji and Taiji Fuchen, and also Meihua Tang Lang. He also has aquired fame as an expert daoist Calligraphist and lately he also started painting. It is due to these combinations i remained fascinated by his skills over time. It is clear from his example that everything we do influences the growth of everything else. In that sense we see much of Zhuangzi's wisdom reflected in this enigmatic figure, who some consider and exentric and others a pinnackle of Chinese traditional artsitry and science. 
You Xuande also became Abbot of "Taihe Temple," at wudang shan in the past. he put down this function to be able to travel and develop his skills further. You Xuande still Travels as both a religious as well as a Gongfu and Arts authority and participated in numerous seminars and conferences in many countries. He is often invited by the most presigious universities around the world and was a consultant in the recent film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which was indispensable for the design and implementation of the fight scenes taking care of the preparation of the players personally. He has given numerous demonstrations of fajing power and has been documented in many news and documentory issues in China. Some of his more public styles have been documented in the form of vcd's published by a guanzhou company, who resold the rights of the vcd's for publication on dvd with translation in the west, but for which illegal copying by western sources no roytalties have ever been offered to You Xuande himself. Not that hat would much change, because as a true daoist he travels and lives without poseesions and his pockets empty. In my years living with him i found myself and my brothers and sisters always buying him clothes or food or anything he needs, while business people finance temple building projects all o er the Chinese mainland. As far as anyone can check he doesnot even have a bank account, nor does he own any of the places attributed to him. he seems to be always visiting wherever he goes.

Some of You Xuande’s titles as bestowed on him:
 Master and one of the leading exponents of Daoism, Dong Tian You Xuande True Man
 Leader of the Wudang Internal Martial Arts.
 President of the China Daoist Culture Research of the Wudang.
 President of the International Federation of Wudang Taijiquan.
 Grandmaster of '"San Feng Wushu Academy."
 14th Generation Zhang Sanfeng disciple descendant of the Tantric Wudang Xuanwu pai.
 Team Leader of Wudang Kung Fu theater group
Daoist Association Honorary President of the United States Supervisor of Feng Shui and Environmental Studies of "Wudang Guild Hall" in Hong Kong,
Honorary President of International Oriental College university department of Internalized marital arts studies
Honorary President of the Wudang Wushu in Italy,
President of the Cape "Wudang International Guild Hall" in Hong Kong,
Member of the Standing Committee of Hubei Daoist Association, Province of China,
President of the South Wudang Daoist Association, Yingshan county, Hubei
 

In my teaching I always try to emulate the priceless teachings he offered me as a scholar, calligraphist and a martial artists. I have  never regretted the choice of becoming a wudang xuanmenpai dizi/disciple and its unique look on daoism and health.

I talked before about my brotyher, but i think i should also give more background about my own work. Within my Wudang pai studies i focussed myself a lot on wudang taiyi practice and ideas. Having studied taiyi wuxing, taiyi xiaoyao and taiyi 108 harmonica I teach this branch of wudang boxing since about 20 years and that is well before i entered the xuanmen wiudang pai. Now i am starting a workshop cycle revolving around Taiyi xiao yao zhang 太乙逍遥章 that i learned under the guidance of shifu You xuande and my brothers who gave me a variety of examples and qualities embedded inside this form that i usually miss in other non chinese teachers, so i am very grateful to be able to share this form with interested students and fellow practitioners.

the translation of taiji xiaoyao is 'Greater unity leisure distance palm', by some translated as happy/content palm. its moves are supple, leisurely and swinging. The inner stretch in the moves is a technique that highlights the bones and tendons, in which the tendons grasp aggression though fluttering moves based on the art of acupuncture principles of pulsing rhythm. it emphasises the harmony of ying, where other styles require the wei, both best represented as the civil and the wild.
 
Taiji xiao yao style is gone mostly unacknowledged, it belongs to the flying crane group of wudang gongfu practices, described as sprinkling and splashing like the ocean.
The point of the movements is to go deep but generate an elegant frame, causing the practitioner and viewer to feel relaxed and happy, moving according to a natural flow, without losing the sight of the fact that it belongs to the immortal/sage family of styles (hence the association with cranes who carry immortals on their backs).
In spite of not having been acknowledged enough Wudang Taiyi boxing is one of the major types of Wudang martial arts. It can be traced back to the Wuqin Xi invented by Hua Tuo at the late Han Dynasty. Wudang Taiyi boxing is also related to the worship of Taiyi god, who is seen as a bridge between heaven and hell, representing the unity between all living beings or sentient beings and the father of great compassions. Taiyi practice therefore also is a tool to develop generosity and kindness in martial arts and life. It is likely therefore that it has developed this leisurely style of movements
 

There is much more to tell about it,  such as founders, techniques, principles, philosphy, applications and so on, but i have to leave some things for the introduction i will give to the students who do enter the workshop cycle.

Because 14 and 15 January 2012 my Wudang pai brother Yuan Liming comes to teach in support of my program in the Eurozone and the Netherlands I hope everybody is going to come taste of wudang gongfu before signing up for our Oriental College program (either online, or on location in Europe, Mexico or China. To help you make a good choice i offer you below Yuan Liming's own information both in chinese and at times crooked English. Yuan Liming is not only one of my best friends, but i also learned a lot from his gongfu and from observing his calm persistence in work. He shows another face of gongfu then my brother Lisheng offers and again another face than myself as a western limb on the 15th generation of Zhang Sanfeng disciples. later in the year i offer myself a series of Wudang gongfu workshops and Lisheng will also come to teach as pasrt of a triptych of teachers:

袁理敏 道长，古荆州人氏。 Yuan Li Min Daoist, Long, native of ancient Jingzhou. 现任武当山武当武术团团长，总教练。 Currently he is head coach of the Wudang Mountain Wudang martial arts group.
袁理敏受当地习武风气的感染，自幼习练民间传统武术，对师父所授一丝不苟，因此师父对他疼爱有加，尽其所能全部授之。 Yuan Li Min always liked the local martial arts ever since he was a child, since childhood he was practicing traditional folk martial arts, he was granted audience with a master due to his meticulous study, he always has put all his affection in the study of martial arts so he always tried to learn as much as possible. 
十一岁时，受师父指点，归宗武当，拜师学艺。 when 11 years old, by the master recommendation, he was sent eventually to Wudang mountain, to study with a teacher. 武当道门规矩甚严，功夫更是秘不外传。 Wudang entrance follows very strict rules, secret effort is not rumor. 但袁理敏持之以恒，虚心请教，久经考验加之自身基础良好，终于得其真传。 However, Yuan Li Min perseverance, consulted widely, coupled with proven itself a good foundation, and finally obtaining the true mass.
在武当山耳濡目染，受道教文化的熏陶，他对武当传统文化产生了浓厚的兴趣，他深知武当功夫与传统文化息息相关，决定下苦功学习文化，不倦地向老道长求艺问道，在武德修养和武术技艺上有了更大的突破和提高。 In the Wudang monasteries, under the influence of Daoism, Wudang traditional culture he developed a strong interest in, and he learned Wudang martial arts and traditional culture are closely related and require the hard work of decisive learning of culture, tirelessly seeking to seasoned long-Arts asked, in bodily form training and martial arts skills on the break and have a greater increase of skills.
对武当文化与武术的热爱，袁理敏更把弘扬武当武术，向世界传播武当术视为已任。 Wudang martial artspromote culture and love, Yuan Li Min also promotes the Wudang martial arts technique to the world as in Wudang has been developed.

近些年一直为此心愿不泄努力： In recent years efforts have allowed him to realize this wish:
一九九九年在香港举办的世界武术锦标赛上以一套神秘莫测滴水不漏的武当丹剑技惊全场二00一年武当拳国际联谊大会上获剑术冠军。 1999 held in Hong Kong World Wushu Championships in a mysterious leak of Wudang sword skills Dan scared Wudang boxing audience in 2001 by the International Friendship Conference fencing championship.
二00一年编排武术节目参加武当山国际旅游节暨全国京剧票友节开幕式，产生轰动。 2001 schedule to participate in Wudang martial arts program and the National Opera International Tourism Festival opening ceremony fancier section to produce a sensation.
二00一年领队出访马来西亚，泰国等国，受到东南亚各国媒介广泛关注。 2001 tour to visit Malaysia, Thailand, Southeast Asian countries by the media attention.
二00二年为澳门回归三周年大庆参加组织编排并表演了主要节目，使澳门朋友亲睹武当武术风采。 2002 for the anniversary of Macao's return to three participating organizations, arranged and performed the main program, the Wudang martial arts style of Macao witnessed a friend.
二00二年：在峨嵋山，代表武当山参加了“武当、少林、峨嵋”群英会。 2002: In the Emei, Wudang Mountain representatives participated in the "Wudang, Shaolin, Emei" competition.
二00二年春节率团到深圳，代表武当山参加“武当、少林、峨嵋”群英会。 2002 Spring Festival, led a delegation to Shenzhen, on behalf of Wudang Mountain to participate in "Wudang, Shaolin, Emei" competition.
二00三年四月：应邀赴台湾做武当武术表演，影响巨大，台湾各大报均整版报道。 April 2003: invited to Taiwan to do the Wudang martial arts have enormous impact, major newspapers in Taiwan are full-page reports.
二00三年八月随政府组建武当山功夫团并担任副团长职务二00四年四月：应邀代表武当山特区政府前往意大利做武当文化学术交流和官方大使，与意大利沙丁岛州做友好城市。 August 2003 with the government set up a Wudang martial arts group and served as deputy head of office in April 2004: Invited to Italy on behalf of the Government to do Wudang Wudang cultural and academic exchanges and official ambassador to do with the Italian Satin island state sister cities.
二00四年五月：率武当山功夫团随十堰招商队伍前往香港参加活动时，受到金庸的亲切接见和对其功夫的高度评价，并赠书致词：“观其剑技，倾倒之至” May 2004: rate Shiyan Wudang martial arts group with the investment team to Hong Kong to participate in activities, were cordially received by Jin Yong and highly appreciated their effort, and books to his speech: "watch his sword skills, the dumping of matter."
二00五年正式组建武当武术团， 2005 officially formed the Wudang martial arts groups,
二00六年率领武术团参加了武当山净乐宫开光大典，受到社会各界好评，同年代表武当派参加《功夫之星》〈同一首歌〉的专题晚会。 2006 led the regiment took part in the Wudang martial arts Net Dynasty opening ceremony, praised by the community, participate in the same year on behalf of Wu-Tang Clan "Kung Fu star" <the same song> thematic evening. 名振四海。 Name of universal vibration. 同年出访德国，荷兰等。 In the same year to visit Germany and the Netherlands. 传播武当功夫，大受欢迎。 Spread Wudang martial arts, popular.
时至今日，武当山上专程幕名来拜袁理敏为师学艺的各国学生形成一股热潮，袁理敏和他的外国弟子们武当山上形成一个形人注目的焦点和亮丽风景。 Today, screen name came on the Wudang Mountain worship Yuan Li Min apprenticeship as a teacher of students to form a national craze, Yuan Li Min and his foreign disciples Wudang form the focus of a form of attention and beautiful scenery.

Today i did receive a phonecall from Luigi Kwas, some old study friend from the time i was studying with Master Shen Hongxun. He called me to inform me that wendsday 26 october Mr Shen died of liver cancer at 73, not long aftter his mother died. Although I did part with him already many years ago, i must admit that the material this man offered me both in group classes and privately at his home has deeply influenced me and to a degree shaped me. I can still brightly recall the first time I met him and the hot dantian feeling i got in my belly. I have always been grateful for what he showed me and told me. One day he told me that i would be offering ancient qigong secrets while teaching in China, bringing these things back to the land that has forgotten them. I now do teach in China, Shanghai even, his hometown. So the suggestion of his words was never lost on me. We always have to honour our teachers, even in disagreement and loss. Therefore i offer my sincerest condoleances to his family, especially his daughter -who for a while i considered a dear friend- and his many students.

Over the years i have kept studying his Taiji Wuxi gong, Taiji37, Buqi, Variation on He/Wu and Yang style Taijiquans, and although they did not have a prominent role in my classes, over time i have kept on commenting on his material and developed my own ideas about it in reflection of some of the things Shen Hongxun offered me and asked me to think about. As a memorial and a thank you i will spend this year offering a few workshops in his honour and especially dedicating them to his methods and donate my comments on that to help enricht understanding of his interesting method of which i studied variations from Japan, Shaolin and Wudang.

Fortunately  the world becomes more transparant year to year and day to day. The anger of people is more noticable and new forms of protest and defence agains tthe powers-that-be come about. Ofcourse everyone fights in one way or another for a world of goodness, but unfortunately we do not always agree on what is good. Some seem to think destruction and killing or bullying is good. And some loose themselves in the promises of wealth and power.

And then ofcourse things get more sparse because water, minerals and other factors get over used, abused even. Fair sharing becomes more important for common survival as a ecological unity, and not even of species or individual survival. And every year we wait to put a stoppage on the spilling of things (keep behaving like the people in the forests we still romanticize about) the changes of peaceful self reguation become smaller.

It is time we start using the popularly used ideas of Machiavelly in cosntructive ways instead of competetive powerbroking as now is being done. As netizens we can construct virtual nations with passports, coinage, mutual insurance, non massive transport systems etc that eventually can replace industry and governemnts by fossilized neolitic systems such as capitalsm (you know: if i can beat yr skull harder with my bone than you mine i will be your employer and i get all the goodies from the antheap and when my belly is full you all can share the leftovers) and its other militant brothers and sisters. We will always need trading systems, we will always need reward and promises, fashions and the abilty to feel we made a better deal. But without cappings and intended equal sharing not only will half the planet die of starvation, thirst and disease but even the rich will have eventually nothing left to be produced for them since all their workers have gone resident evil. What happens to Greece, and the behaviour of the USA, Italy, North Korea, IRAN, Israel and the Japanese government in how they all lock themselves in stalemates shows only panic. We are already in the middle of the process of having had to decide and open out on these issues 10 years ago. If as world commune we do not build fences against governments and companies ruining what is left for us we all end up in one huge civil war. Do politicians want this ruin, or companies or the rhich? ofcourse not but in such positions they are more imprisoned than the common people, who have the freedom to act out of the box. together we are a speices and a species is also one being. As an enlightened being, as we can be together we can achieve all politicians, business people, terrorists and common people dream of achieving: a better world, where we control health and our future in happiness and withjout loosing our ability to do as we dream of doing. Nobody is waiting for new Middle Ages.

I guess i should start working-out the Daoland health care program more like that: as a real land. I should include voting polls in which communal decisions can be shared, passports developed that have real life garantees, a fair shared expenses/burdens and benefits system. It would be an interessting social experiment to see how a virtual democratic land would work out when expressed to reality. A new generation of social developments after tribal, nation state and industrial? Oh my, I am worried about the news.  

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My sister Lifang and me are considering building a Daoist community in Zhongxiang, that is country side. There are no asphalted roads going there yet, just farms, some of them still from pre cultural revolution times. There is still much handiwork done, almost everything- such as  digging out peanuts by hand and cotton picking.
Many of these moves are perfect for the austere practices in dao seeking by means of gongfu studies. Also students can do community service by helping the farmers for free, this also is good moral study. And the air is good.
There is some improvement in the austerity level. The province contributes by water piping and streaming water. My uncle in the village opens the tap once a week because he is worried it will run empty.
You have any suggestions? Would you go to a place like that? Wudang is supposed to be a mountain society but in fact country side is more quiet because there are no tourists.
 

There is a lot to do about Chinese tv. Chinese tv is an important engine for social change. It drives information streams due to the way it formats information. It educates the masses and the bored. It has many aspects western tv has, and a few more. It is a mirror of human interest in China.

For instance a recent ban on time travel drama’s and a limit on talent shows on regional tv shows the hierarchical structure of China’s society. For millennia Chinese religion is based on a hourglass cosmological model, where the narrow point looks like the top of a pyramid. The other side of the hourglass is the supernatural, with the intended counterpoint being heaven. China’s import of communism and capitalism has not changed anything about that so political and business models still follow a strict hierarchy of empowerment. Let us now not talk about the moral side of the situation but some of the practices.

Chinese tv has altered many gender issues in China. Like the dolly dots in Europe Chinese tv has helped empower young women in finding a voice and some form of sexual and social liberation. That process is ongoing, but the radical feminization of women in self-portrayal are outward appearances of women who make decisions about their own life, instead of parents or future husbands
Another gender issue is sexual preference. Chinese tv has been at the foreground of popularizing gay sexuality and gayish appearance. It helps successfully market cosmetics and fashion for men by stereotyping male models in warrior type and gayish type as alternatives for common -implying boring and almost invisible, old fashioned etc.

At western tv vulgarity and a certain rough edge on people has become romanticized for generations, so that dirty is seen as a common stereotype for normalcy after which kids model their self-appearance. The process when perpetuating gradually radicalizes and changes the nature of western society that separates work time and private time according to the slave model: bosses time is bosses time but the boundaries of what is private and self-determined are strained. For instance last night at the Helsinki airport my stuffs were searched by a cop with a Mohawk, and looking at his eyes he was clearly not lost on a joint or two a day. Both things were 10 years ago still largely a taboo in his line of work, even in Amsterdam.
In China on tv actors and singers have to move between appropriateness and morally innocent, even when their roles are sexualized or supposed to be criminal or immoral. Their performance in acting rubs off on their personal career, so if one goes too far one might lose out on career opportunities.  The vulgarity is therefore often hidden in symbolic gestures.
The emotional content of a moment on the other hand is often played out over several sequences of a drama series. A man and women meeting and coming to their first kiss, or coming to separation is dragged out into tedious long sensitive periods that are never seen in western tv, where much of the drama is played out in symbolic gestures or violent explosions of emotions or violent behavior. The longest emotional drama unspinning I noticed was 3 shows played out on two evenings. Since tv programs often vertically, which means a drama show is shown 2 times a day and 3 shows in a row during 5 days a week –so lots of repetition- so… you can imagine how emotively saturated one can become watching tv in China.
 It really requires time for a Westerner to learn appreciate Chinese tv. Most western guests in China see Chinese tv and music as an oddity and too plastic, but then they often come to china to make money, not because they care about being there so they do not really involve themselves in the esthetics of Chinese culture. They live like in Saudi Arabia in a western enclave, but the walls of their enclave are more virtual. It also reflect their disappointments in their entrepreneurial adventures in China. They expect the Chinese to understand them, instead of trying to understand the Chinese. Too often they see difference as habitual, not substantial. As old-fashioned-ness and not as cutting edge social modernity.
Ofcourse Chinese politics does its best to keep it like that, but mixed marriages and their offspring are often discussed and admired on Chinese tv.  In news programs accidents and news items are often more openly displayed in their horrors then western media do. Googling the recent shanghai subway accident with line 10 that I myself also frequent, shows mostly censored post-accident pictures of victims in emotional states being dragged away, while Chinese media quickly asked questions about who needed to be punished for this and showed victims in all bloody gore on the site of the accident. News spread through social media as Weibo causes hyped news changes and social change too. In the west we often hear about the repressions of news or events, but in fact most news gets around in china uncensored.  You really need strong protection before you can dare to repress something. It is mostly lower and midlevel organizations that do the repressing. Central government only to a degree is involved with that, although it seems to tolerate some of it, it seems they are also wary of it looking to promote civil society and their own version of democracy.
 

Yesterday was the 9-11 event, Bush and Obama joined in remembering the event, in Karachi thousants protested while the media of the world helped feeling people united in a struggle to bring civil society about.

My memories of 9-11 are not as significant. I was at Wudangshan at the moment and the Chinese news did make presentation of the disastrous event but it was not the easiest thing to follow unfold since I did not have a tv set at hands, nor internet. It took me a month before I could really catch up and come to understand it. I did get the war declaration against terrorism though, which was a political blunder of no small significance. The USA and its allies did exactly what they were accused of with the terrorist action, they showed their imperialist face however justified their rage was.

I remember having a client back in Amsterdam. He tell me he was in his hotel room when it happened. From a small part of the window he would be able to see the twin towers. He said I was on the phone and saw the towers come a apart, not understanding what I saw.

Both the 9-11 events were wrong. Binladen when he came to meet Allah probably was thrown in to hell for what he did, since Islam also is against killing the innocent, or maybe even the guilty. It states to look at oneself when one makes an error of concern and change your ways.

Today is zhongqiu jie. The celebration day of Xiwangmu, the goddess that brings immortality. People here in china gather at places where they can watch the moon. The story is that Chang’e, a maid servant of Xiwangmu, ( who is Grandmother West, mentioned by Zhuangzi as mother of all the gods. But she is also seen as Goddess of the Immortals and wife of the Jade Emperor who rules the human affairs from heaven), ran of eating the immortality pill of her husband and got stuck on the moon. She asked the rabbit in the moon to make a copy of the medicine to help her fly back to her husband and give her husband his fair share of the immortality drug. The rabbit is still pounding and the husband is still waiting. It is also harvest festival.

Since all the world was remembering yesterday the two gruesome events, the harvest this year is one of unison and agreement about what ideals we have to fight for.  Full disclosure of all events unfolding at any time, to help prevent a second 9-11 and the angry response following it that is still causing so many death and failing economy. In the past they said war is the engine of economy, well that time has come to pass. This time these wars wrecked economies, since no industry is powerful enough anymore to drive progress and the destruction of small countries like IRAK, Afganistan and Pakistan can never be big enough to help create  a great revival of economic vitality.

From here, in my Shanghai tower I declare the final fall of the concept of war. It is obsolete. Only a thousand years of peace can now follow. Although I wonder what that will bring.
 

I have many brothers and sisters in the Wudang pai. Many of them i do not even know, remember them or be likely to meet them a second time. I miss in my daily activities a few of them, like a cannon fist master from tianshan, my sister Lifang and my brothers Lisheng and Liming. Some of my brothers like Lilong, Lili and others i haven't seen so long that they are like an ancient warm feeling in the backside of my heart. My non Chinese brothers i only know from sparse meetings and seem usually rather competetive, which i regret, becasue in our oath it says we should like one family act and never develop ourselves without including our family. Attempts by Lifang and myself to unite us in a modest cooperation so far failed. But well, it is difficult to cooperate, especially when we have to compete with the even more competetive brothers from China who often do not take us serious enough because we are not them. My brother Himmet is one of the few versing that openly, but unfortunately there are also some relevant truths in why we are not taken serious enough. Most of us for instance are not very skilled in Chinese, and i must say my own Chinese leaves lot to improve too. As a result we sometimes do not understand what is said or seen or written. Translation requires training as a daoist, which most of my brothers lack. cooperation would ofcourse compensate for each of our weaknesses and create a european wudangpai.

Some of my brothers are commercially much more succesful then me, which i am happy for towards them, but what i regret is that there is a general misunderstanding among them about what being Wudang pai culture member is about. Most of them are from a Shaolin pretraining background, but intelectually they are often more Europeans, or even new-agers, than that they are Wudang Pai, however skilful they may be in practice. I have lived with some of my brothers and sisters over half my time last 12 years and have discussed many points extensively as part of my continuous research on what i got myself into, and as part of my PhD study research. 

I came across the website of one of my brothers where he explained the ten principles of wudang pai practice. First of all, that is shared between pai members, although it is not a secret, but it should be notoriously difficult to become a pai member. We as forreigners were initiated in a period of easy admission and thus we can consider ourselves a lucky experiment on the advice of my sister You Li Fang to our shifu You Xuande. You Xuande has sworn to not let forreigners in anymore, but then, he is a Daoist so he might change his mind. We should only allow new members in when our study is finsihed, and well, ofcourse we know ourselves best when that is.

I come across the translation of the ten daoist principles of wudang gongfu practice on this one site. I had them myself in my reader for the international oriental college on the hsitory of internalized martial arts that i have collated over the last 12 years being Wudang Xuanmen pai. To compensate for the translation defects on this site i offer here a more correct translation, without explaining the translation. if you'd like them explained you better start coming to my classes or workshops. I frequently explain them in many ways since they are indeed an indespensible part of being wudang pai or practiciong the spiritual principles of wudang gongfu.

1.    浑圆一周天, hún yuán yì zhōu tiān:  muddy circle [as] one circulates heaven
2.    阴阳合太极 , yīn yáng hé tài jí:   yinyang harmonize greater polarisation
3.    三圆夺造化, sān yuán duó zào huà:  Three circes force the production of change
4.    四象始成形, sì xiàng shǐ chéng xíng: Four appearances start becoming form
5.    五行分生克, wǔ xíng fēn shēng kè:   five phases measure growth [and] overcoming
6.    六合修内外, liù hé xiū neì wài:   six harmonies cultivate the inner and the outer
7.    七星本为发, qī xīng běn wéi fā:   seven stars’ root become expressed
8.    八卦自为化, bā guà zì wéi huà:   eight diagrams inside one resemble change
9.    九宫练神形, jiǔ gōng liàn shén xíng:  nine palaces’s white silken shen-consciousness form
10.  万法桩功生, wàn fa zhuāng gōng sheng:  10000 laws pile [the] work [of] growth
 

Just a few days ago a Norwegian Anders Breivik went on a killing spree murdering about 90 people in a calculated protest that looks more like a Warholian search for 15 minutes of fame then that it actually was based on any sound idea.
Breivik's protest against multiculturalism, or like the protests of the weird politician Geert Wilders in my own country against Islamification echo 19th century thinking that brought forth two world wars, Nanjing's massacre, Hitler's conentration campls, Hutus and Tutsi's killing each other massively, Stalinism as an excess of Marxism, Fascism, Capitalism, Nationalism and Racism as scientific standards that are still largely being followed by the world at large. Many of the current wars and uprisings are directly fed by this 19th century standard that had to justify recent history.
If it wasn’t for the multicultural migration waves (caused by the 19th century thinking and disruptive action) our entertainment industry would still be in its infancy, and not even jazz would have become popular. Our literature and art would still try to be a predecessor of photography and our news would still read on the level of neighborhood shopping.
Is multiculturalism bad? It builds and breaks fortunes, that is for sure. So does anything else. It also imprisons our minds and hearts if we fear it, but it liberates when we respect it as a historical fact. African tribes had to accept it when white men took them to the America’s as a form of robotic workforce, they also had to accept our western notions of culture and nation when we draw their boundaries. And after all, how many fashion things people wear are the result of multiculturalism? The cravat was originally a style of accessorizing at a small part of central Europe to start with and now it is a standard global must have for whole classes of hive people ( a social class of hyper militarized capitalism: office workers).
Cultural change and drift are part of any form of renewal for a society and to escape its burdens build in the past. And believe me: we humans have quite some burdens. We are burden beavers, building dams of problems in the natural flow of history. We are not time travelers, we too often are stuck in time, trying to re-live the past.
The difference with the past, and why multiculturalism is liberating, is that in the past culture was something regionally determined. Believing that it is still so is an inherently uninformed, backwards 19th century way of thinking. and we establised above that that time is highly dangerous to uncritically adhere to.

Culture was never regional. Culture is an agreement between individuals about the nature of reality and what we should do and think to reinforce that way of thinking. Look at the current Greek Tragedy of lack of tax payers in the upper and upper middle classes. If the EU would have been a democracy and one country by now as it should have been, the problem would not have occurred. But people try to hold on to nationalist 19th century identities and thus the right to have harmful laws and regulation because of tradition and other forms of corruption.

Culture is not a regional seclusion. Now it is something we can access and personalize anywhere on the planet. Saddhu’s in Beijing, Daoist masters in Amsterdam, a black president of the USA. Culture and cultural style is a matter of accessorizing our identity, like skinheads and white rasta’s do. Like me wearing a Wudang Daoist suit and you wearing a leopardskin printed tanga. I bet you are not a Massai Chieftain! See what happened with China and Japan because they absorbed western culture of industry and science? See what happens to all these countries that repeat the 19th century? They create only argument, bloodshed and suffering. It is high time we create some optimism about our future and finally start living in the 21th century and build on current realities, use our current potential to increase global wellbeing, reduce hunger and poverty. And because governments will follow the people no matter where they are it is up to us, Netizens to organize ourselves and shape up the world with viable initiatives that gradually alter the political anti historic climate currently causing killing sprees and an abundance of manifesto’s. Welcome to Daoland, where all we do has to finance a better future for everyone. You are responsible to what happens to your world! Make it a healthy happy place where people work together and each can be and look whatever they feel like.