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Slide Sense Picture and space aesthetics Text: stillness or animation Background colour, photo or watermark Branding with small photos Cues on slides

1.Are you in the right place? 2.The most important Taoist saying. 3.A time to let go. 4.An activity already! 5.The novice, the scholar, and the abbot. Welcome

1.Are you in the right place? 2.The most important Taoist saying. 3.A time to let go. 4.An activity already! 5.The novice, the scholar, and the abbot. Welcome

YANG TAO Deep understanding from the Way it is. TE Power from Virtue THE SAGE The Wise and Happier Teacher-Librarian YIN MUSIC/TAPE Hearing the Way PLAY Feeling the Way ART/FILM Seeing the Way FUNG-SHUI Living the Way

YANG TAO Deep understanding from the Way it is. TE Power from Virtue THE SAGE The Wise and Happier Teacher-Librarian YIN MUSIC/TAPE Hearing the Way PLAY Feeling the Way ART/FILM Seeing the Way FUNG-SHUI Living the Way

YANG TAO Deep understanding from the Way it is. TE Power from Virtue THE SAGE The Wise and Happier Teacher-Librarian YIN MUSIC/TAPE Hearing the Way PLAY Feeling the Way ART/FILM Seeing the Way FUNG-SHUI Living the Way

TAO Tao: The Way and the wayTao: The Way and the way Yin-Yang: Interplay of oppositesYin-Yang: Interplay of opposites Wu Wei: Non-actionWu Wei: Non-action Pu: The Uncarved BlockPu: The Uncarved Block ChI: The Life ForceChI: The Life Force

TAO Tao: The Way and the wayTao: The Way and the way Yin-Yang: Interplay of oppositesYin-Yang: Interplay of opposites Wu Wei: Non-actionWu Wei: Non-action Pu: The Uncarved BlockPu: The Uncarved Block ChI: The Life ForceChI: The Life Force

Taoism: A Short History Toronto 1965 Lao-Tzu Chuang Tzu Lieh Tse Zen Buddhism Modern China John Blofeld (tape)

TETE Te: Virtue-PowerTe: Virtue-Power Tzu: CompassionTzu: Compassion Chih: Intuitive knowledgeChih: Intuitive knowledge Ho Ping: Harmony/TranquilityHo Ping: Harmony/Tranquility Ching: Quiessence/MeditationChing: Quiessence/Meditation

Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue. Ch. 10 Trans. Stephen Mitchell Te: Virtue- Power

Mu ChI (1269). Six Persimmons See Creativity and Taoism, Plate 4

Wu Zhen: Fishermen When I sit by the river, my mind is totally concentrated on fishing and nothing else. I have a good feel for the give and pull of the line so the fish are not even aware when the hook and bait enter the water. To them, the bait is no different from a grain of sand or a bubble, and they swallow it without suspecting. This is the principle of using the soft to win over the strong and the light to hold the heavy. Lieh Tzu