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Growth Group: Taoism, Alchemical Meditation (Year Two)
Special Migration Offer: 40% Off
Valid until June 18, 2025
This program will no longer be available for registration after this date.
Join Carlos de León for the second year of an in-depth study and practice group on Taoism, Alchemical Meditation; a philosophy and way of understanding perfection and liberation with practices for cultivating health, longevity, wisdom, alchemical meditation, and realization.
Growth Group
- Instructor: Carlos de León
- 20 Online Sessions (2 hours each)
- English Interpretation
- Access: 2 Years
About the Program
We continue and deepen the process launched in Year One, approaching Taoist reality through the practice of “The Eight Books of the Wu Ji Gong.” This is a treaty of Taoist meditation inspired by the Eight Trigrams of the Pakua, complex and beautiful. Group time emphasizes technique and explanation, and practice online, which, in turn, invites the practice into daily life, supporting personal transformation and liberation, or what the Taoists call "immortality.
Year One was foundational, covering only the first two books, Earth and Wind. In Year Two, Carlos steers us through the remaining six:
- Zhen – Thunder
- Dui – Lake
- Li – Fire
- Qian – Heaven
- Kan – Water
- Gen – Mountain
By creating more efficient practices for our modern times, Ontogony helps us discover and integrate some really ancient wisdom. Our approach is “Wu Ji Gong”, or the ‘Cultivation of the Limitless’. That paraphrases the words of Chuang Tzu and is the intention and goal of this growth group experience.
The Limitless (Wuji) produces the delimited, and this is the Absolute (Taiji). The Taiji produces two forms, named Yin and Yang. The two forms produce four phenomena: lesser yang, great yang (tai yang also means the Sun), lesser yin, and great yin (tai yin also means the Moon). The four phenomena act on the eight trigrams (bagua); eight eights are sixty-four hexagrams.
We continue studying the Tao Te Ching, or “The Way and Its Power,” a collection of poetry and sayings from around the third and fourth centuries B.C., and one of the most beautiful representations of Taoist vision.
“Tao is a bottomless ship;
Used by itself, it is not filled with the World;
It cannot be cut, limited, hidden or immobilized; Its depths are hidden, ubiquitous and eternal;
I don't know where it comes from;
It came before Nature”.
~Tao Te Ching
One of Taoism’s central ideas is the belief in balancing forces, yin and yang, representing matching pairs such as light and dark, hot and cold, and action and inaction, working together toward a universal whole. Yin and yang show that everything in the universe is connected and that nothing makes sense, or even exists, by itself.
This online growth and practice group is for people who wish to:
- Deepen their exploration of Taoism as a universal path to knowing the Self and a greater reality;
- Discover, through cultivating an awareness of the Tao, new personal experiences and, most importantly, surrendering to the One:
- Integrate goals of living with a philosophy that embraces an Integrative, Ecological, and Evolutionary approach to living in this Creation;
- Experience an ongoing process of growth and transformation through Taoism, a path adapted to the student's personal development.
Taoism seeks to live at peace with oneself, others, and the world of change; it advocates for conscious experience and the completeness of who we are.
In exploring the cosmic universe, we uncover levels beyond the physical that reveal possibilities for our future development. It is a time of healing and interconnectedness with all that exists and on all levels of the soul!
Prerequisites
For acceptance into the growth group, a student must have completed Taoism, Alchemical Meditation (Year One), with Carlos de León. It is a prerequisite for anyone registering for Taoism, Alchemical Meditation (Year 2).
This course requires approval by Carlos de León
For acceptance into the growth group, a student must have completed Taoism, Alchemical Meditation (Year One), with Carlos de León. It is a prerequisite for anyone registering for Taoism, Alchemical Meditation (Year 2).
Special Migration Offer: 40% Off Valid until June 18, 2025
Payment in Full
$780
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($858 CAD)
Pay in three monthly instalments of
$286
Payment Plan
($936 CAD)
Pay in five monthly instalments of
$187.20
