Tai Chi & Qiqong & Discusssion on Spiritual Cultivation using Zen or Tao Sundays

Enjoy the gentle exercise of Tai Chi, which can bring peace, health to your body, mind and spirit.

We start from 8 AM for tai chi and qigong and followed by discussions on spiritual cultivation using Zen or Tao Te ching or any other teachings.

The location can be found below.
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The group is for people to meet, discuss, share and help each other for Spiritual Growth, Cultivation and Network.
We know that we have body, mind and spirit. The body is tangible and will go through birth, sickness, aging, and death. It also has duality, there are men and women and it lives in the physical world. Mind is intangible, but still has duality. There are positive/negative thoughts. The spirit is intangible and beyond duality. Lao Tzu used Tao to refer to the origin of creation and the pure spirit within each one of us. Buddha called the pure spirit as Buddha nature, meaning everyone can reach Buddhahood or enlightenment. It is referred to as the image of God in the Bible and spirit of Allah in the Koran. The more modern terms can be pure awareness or pure consciousness.
Even though there are different names, they all point to the same pure nature within us.
The analogy of sun and clouds is one of my favourites. The pure nature can be likened to the sun, which is always emitting light regardless of sunny days, cloudy days or stormy days. The vexations such as anger, resentment, greed, ignorance, attachment to fame, possessions...etc. can be likened to clouds that can temporarily obscure the light from the pure nature. However, once they are blown away, the light or wisdom from the pure nature will shine again.
Spiritual cultivation is the journey to awaken to the pure nature within us and how to blow away clouds of delusions to let the wisdom or light to flow from the pure nature without hindrance, which lead us to a life with joy, ease and love while living in this dualistic world.
We use Zen teachings as a starting point and are open to any other teachings, such as those from Buddha, Jesus, Confucius, Lao [Tzu...etc.](http://tzu...etc./) and life experiences and wisdom from within each one of us.
We use the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch in Chan/Zen to understand how to practice spiritual cultivation in our life.
It's a good chance for any one who is interested to study, understand and share understandings and how to apply in our life to reveal great wisdom from our true/Buddha nature.

We have done the translation ourselves to reflect the true meaning of the original text as accurately as possible. We welcome any suggestions during the discussion.

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