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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