Principles
A framework of learning and living that allows people to balance between activity and rest.
What is the Focus & Diffuse Model?
Those pesky and elusive things that bounce around in our brain all day long.
What are Thoughts?
A model that helps us understand the patterns around anger, self-attachment, and self-blame, and how to remedy it.
What is the Congee Pot/Temper Model?
The universal law that every thought, word, and deed produces consequences, even beyond this lifetime.
What is Karma?
The ability to observe yourself in real-time, usually observing your thoughts, sensations in your body, emotions, etc.
What is Self-Awareness?
The inner strength that all people have but only some people have access to; it grants us the ability to take direct and immediate action toward any chosen goal or meaningful activity.
What is Will Power?
This metaphor around purifying drinking water helps inspire us to continue learning the wisdom of the sages while continuing to practice it in our real daily lives, even if it’s uncomfortable or mundane.
What is the Filter Of Wisdom?
A word, originally from Asia, that describes the indescribable Source of this Universe that we live in.
What is the Dao?
This principle is the ultimate antidote for the three spiritual poisons that all humans are susceptible to: greed, hatred, and ignorance.
What are the 3 Ways Of Giving?
The waves of energy and feeling that arise inside of our bodies usually due to some perception, thought, or experience we are having.
What are Emotions?
A model using branches, leaves, roots and a trunk showing how spiritual principles create healthy growth in every area of one’s life, and how a lack of principles creates a drought.
What is the Spiritual Tree?
The title for one who consciously and consistently trains their body, mind, and spirit in the principles of Dao.
What is a Cultivator?
The act of creating new meaning to an experience or a situation in order to free yourself from any negative feelings and from negative habitual behaviors.
What is Redefinition?
The act of sincerely recognizing and correcting any harmful actions of body, speech, or mind that come from us, even if they are harmful to just ourselves.
What is Repentance?
This metaphor makes it clear that the people and the environments we associate with will dramatically affect our belief systems and therefore our destiny.
What is the Grandfather Clock Principle?
The energy centers of the non-material body where life-force flows and gathers.
What is the Chakra System?
This short story reminds us of how exhausting and costly life can be when we don’t have the knowledge or the courage to tackle problems head on.
What is the Cockroach Principle?
This is the hidden network of perception that lives in the underground layer of everyone’s consciousness; it is the ‘general manager’ position within the metaphor from the 8 layers of consciousness principle.
What is a Belief System?
This metaphor around a certain plant contains the wisdom about making sure a human being invests 3 to 5 years into something meaningful before they expect it to grow and fruit exponentially.
What is the Bamboo Principle?
The positive spiritual energy accumulated through good deeds and practice; aka the money of one’s spiritual bank account.
What is Merit?
This is the framework of right view, speech, action, and practice toward liberation that the Buddha famously taught and which has been successfully passed down for over 2500 years to our modern generation.
What is the Noble Eightfold Path?
In different relationships and in different situations we may have different responsibilities. In the Dao when we live by these responsibilities with integrity it’s called following one’s what?
What is one’s Role?
A framework for penetrating the layers of existence, you can wear this lens anytime to increase your wisdom a hundredfold.
What is Phenomenon, Function, and Essence? (Wisdom Glasses)
The natural chatacer & power that manifests in a person when living in alignment with the Dao.
What is Te/Virtue?