"Taoist Li Gaoyuan talks about Taoism"
Text/Li Genyong
Taoist priest Li Gaoyuan and I are both family members and good friends. He has profound Taoism, is good at acupuncture, and relieves people's pain. He is famous in the industry and enjoys a good reputation.
Photograph at Jining Airport. On the left is Taoist Master Li Gaoyuan, on the right is the author
Li Gaoyuan said: Since ancient times, Taoism has had many arts, including mountain, medicine, fortune telling, and fortune telling. Divination is the five Taoist arts. All practitioners of Taoism in the past dynasties have mastered the five arts. , People who practice Taoism use skills to carry the Tao, Tao is manifested through skills, Tao is used to unify skills, and skills are used to promote Tao. The "Five Arts" are the foundation of Taoist cultivation. The ascetics believe that the five arts can reach heaven and earth, control gods and exorcise ghosts, and achieve the purpose of praying for blessings and warding off disasters, curing diseases and rescuing people.
According to legend, more than 4,600 years ago, the Yellow Emperor received help from the gods and taught him the Heavenly Book to defeat Chi You's witchcraft, and captured and killed Chi You to unify the world. After the Yellow Emperor calmed down the war, he ordered Cangjie to create characters and record the various secret techniques in the heavenly book taught by Jiutian Xuannu. This book was later regarded as a treasure by people in the world, the "Golden Seal and Jade Letter".
The secret book left by the Yellow Emperor was obtained by Jiang Taigong in Kunlun Mountain during the Zhou Dynasty. He used the alchemy in the secret book to help Zhou defeat Zhou, which enabled the Zhou Dynasty to rule for eight hundred years. During the Warring States Period, it was passed to Guiguzi, the ancestor of Wang Chan. He passed on his secret skills to his apprentices - Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Sun Bin and Pang Juan, who became famous generals and ministers at that time. In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Liang obtained the secret book from Huang Shigong, which lasted for four hundred years.
In this way, the "Golden Seal and Jade Letter" was passed down from generation to generation in a magical way. During the Three Kingdoms era, it was passed to Zhuge Liang, helping him to win three parts of the world. During the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties, although there were people who obtained the "Golden Seal Script and Jade Letter", most of them were incomplete. For example, Zhuge Liang obtained Taoism, and Guo Pu and Yang Junsong obtained Kanyu Technique (Yin Yang Feng Shui). In the Song Dynasty, the person who obtained the "Gold Seal and Jade Letter" was Zhu Xi, a great scholar of the generation and a prolific scholar. In the Ming Dynasty, Liu Ji (also known as Bowen) obtained the "Golden Seal Script and Jade Letter" and helped Zhu Yuanzhang establish the Ming Dynasty, but then retired. "The Golden Seal Script and Jade Letter" has been circulated for four thousand years. During this period, the contents were scattered, lost, added or deleted, or there were differences, resulting in many schools, which can be roughly divided into: mountain, medicine, fortune, fortune-telling, and divination, collectively known as the five arts of metaphysics.
"Mountain" includes three parts: "Xuan Dian", "Health Preservation" and "Cultivation of Secrets", which are secret techniques for cultivating the mind and body and exercising; "Medicine" includes three parts: "Prescription", "Acupuncture" ", "Spiritual Healing"; "Phase" part includes two types: "Human Phase" and "Earth Phase"; "Fate" is a method to judge a person's destiny based on the relationship between time and space. The important methods are: " Astrology", "Stem and Branch Technique"; "Divination" has the longest history, such as "Plum Blossom Yishu", "Najia Duanyi", "Liu Ren Shen Ke", "Tai Yi Shen Shu", "Qi Men Dun Jia" Most military strategists in historical dynasties are proficient in mathematics, such as Zhuge Liang in the Han Dynasty, Li Chunfeng in the Tang Dynasty, Shao Kangjie in the Song Dynasty, Liu Bowen in the Ming Dynasty, Zeng Guofan in the Qing Dynasty, etc.
Mountains, medicine, fortune-telling, fortune-telling, and divination all share the same origin. They all use the five elements of yin and yang as core reasoning tools to judge the development trends and coping strategies of things. They are the most important oriental elements in Chinese Taoism and traditional culture. Science part.
However, there are many people who are not familiar with the five arts of metaphysics, or have not met famous teachers, or have no time to practice. In order to make the mysterious Taoist Western Feng Shui serve today's society, and spread the wonderful method, we invite Taoist Western Feng Shui. He sent Feng Shui master Dong Daozhang to teach, and he was destined to show the path to the Dharma. He entered the Xiyi Gate and realized the supreme road together.