by Cheng Tong | Jun 26, 2018 | Stillness
I heard from a Temple mate earlier this year, an email to say hello and to catch up on whereabouts and doings.? As is my wont, I waited a while to respond to enable a more thoughtful reply, something beyond the intellectually lazy hello echo. He?d just finished a... 
by Cheng Tong | Jun 26, 2018 | Stillness
I was chatting with one of my students recently about life at the Five Immortals Temple on Baima Shan in Hubei Province, China.? I had been living at the Temple for three months before I went down for the first time into the nearby city of Shiyan.? I found myself... 
by Cheng Tong | Jun 23, 2018 | Stillness
Those of us who live a Daoist Longevity Practice do so to cultivate stillness. ?The daily discipline of qigong, taiji and meditation is certainly rewarding for the benefit of good body health . . . evening meditation to accumulate qi; morning qigong to circulate that... 
by Cheng Tong | Jun 23, 2018 | Stillness
The term ?gongfu,? often spelled ?kung fu,? has come to refer to a style of Chinese martial arts.? We see a temple on a mountain top in China, a large courtyard filled with monks in robes busy training, and we say ?Yes, I know that, it is gongfu.? Actually, the term... 
by Cheng Tong | Jun 22, 2018 | Stillness
I grew up on Cape Cod, an island off the coast of Massachusetts.? Wildlife was plentiful, and we engaged ourselves in the natural beauty of the land and the sea . . . fishing, clamming, tending lobster pots.? Seagulls were everywhere, piping plovers were protected in...