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DAO YIN 64 TRANSFORMATIONS

Within the Hun Yuan school, we practice the Taoist version of Dao Yin, guided by the principles of the 64 transformations. While most Dao Yin schools are associated with the Confucian school of Dao Yin, which popularized Dao Yin in China over the last 300 years, the...

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THE MAGIC OF THE YI JING

Within Taoist magic, each hexagram of the Yi Jing (易经), "the classic of changes," has a magical application. For most people, the Yi Jing is nothing more than a divinatory method. This is because at the most basic level of understanding, each hexagram is like a mirror...

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martial skills

  武艺 MARTIAL SKILLS The term "武艺" (wǔyì) first appeared in the poem “Ceremonial  Commemo -ration of Crown Prince Shi” by Yan Nian during the Southern Song Dynasty. In the "Wen Xuan," it mentions 偃闭武术,阐扬文令 (yan bi wu shu, chan yang wen ling), which can be translated as...

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