Name: Zen & Tao Te Ching for Spiritual Awakening and Cultivation in Penrith on Sundays
Start: 2025-11-23T14:30:00+11:00
End: 2025-11-23T16:00:00+11:00
Location: Western Sydney University, Kingswood

The in-person discussion 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 is 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 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 Bible and spirit of Allah in 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 liken 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.
The 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 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.

Welcome to join and share your understanding and realisation and how to apply them in life.

**Please note that there are regular attendees who may not RSVP here. Don't be discouraged by the low RSVP count. You're warmly welcome to join us!**

**We will contact you via Meetup message to exchange mobile numbers so we can call or text each other to confirm details or locate one another on the day.**

**If you don't receive our Meetup message, please email us at [TaoZen168@gmail.com](http://TaoZen168@gmail.com/) with your mobile number, and we will reach out to you directly.**

Please see more details in below meetup groups and there are other events if you're interested.

[https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/zen-tao/](https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/zen-tao/)
[https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/vegetarian-vegan/](https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/vegetarian-vegan/)

Looking forward to meeting you there.

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