Daoists
on the Planet Earth
A
French Woman Daoist
25
Aril 2007
Her name is 景秀(Jinxiu), which obviously isn’t
the one given by her French parents. In the
Daoist and Chinese Buddhist practice, there
is always a special character to mark a whole
generation, and in this particular case, it
is Jin to be assigned to identify the 32th
generation of lineage bearers for the Complete
Reality’s Dragon Gate (全真龙门) sect. So it makes her a
32th generation inheritor of the Gate which
was initially installed by legendary Daoist
Qiu Chuji (丘处机) about 800 years ago.
A meditating
Jinxiu
以自然无为为法要，
以修身治国为旨归，
以天人合一为境界..
But
she wasn’t always a Gate keeper. Six years
ago she worked as a medical practitioner at
Briton with a Ph.D in medical sciences from
the University of Paris. By then her name was
Karine Martin.
One
day in 2001, she joined a recreational
meditation class in where she had her first
contact with Daodejing. The profound
connection she thereafter experienced to
inner self and beyond allowed another part of
her consciousness, previously buried deep
within, going all the way out to the surface.
And that changed her life forever.
The
further study after the course under the
guidance of British Daoist Shijin (世景) and visiting Chinese Daoist
Shizhen (世真) eventually led her to
leave behind her job and boyfriend and take a
journey east in pursuing the eternal Way of
Dao.
Six
years on, while probing the hidden secret of
life, she lives in a compromised existence in
the material sense. But she thinks it’s all
worthwhile. “In China, there is a culture,
a philosophy, that can be of a help to the
modern society and lead us to a world of
peace and harmony,” she says.
Spanish
Daoists
Who
are these guys in the traditional Han Chinese
clothing? With a prominent presence in the
middle of their face, they don’t look very
Han. Sure they are not. They are Spanish
Daoists attending the International Forum on
Daodeling (道德经).
A
5-day forum opened on Sunday night in China’s
ancient capital Xian, joined by professional
and ameteur Daoists from all over the world.
Chinese Daoists
Three grand
Daoist masters praying for the
world peace at the sacred site of
the Terrace View
On
Monday, 300 members attending the forum
visited the sacred Daoist building site, the
Terrace View (楼观台), in
Zhouzhi County (周至县) of
Shaanxi Province (陕西). It
is where Laozi allegedly wrote his Daodejing,
a book that becomes known as one of the
theoretical foundations of the Chinese
culture.
A
typical scene in the magical sacred Daoist
sites
According
to the figure released by the Daoist
association in 2004, there were 25 thousand
officially ordained Daoists and Daoistresses
in China by then, with over 1,500 Daoist
temples and institutions across the country,
many of them congregated in four most
sacred Daoist mountains, namely Mt. Wudang (武当山) in Hubei, Mt. Dragon and Tiger
(龙虎山) in Jiangxi, Mt.
Green Town (青城山) in Sichuan and Mt.
Reaching Clouds (齐云山) in Anhui.
和谐世界，以道相通
Let
Dao guide the way to a harmonious world
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