Daoist Cultivation: Traditional Models and Contemporary Practice
Camp Sealth, Vashon Island, May 9-13, 2001
Acknowledgments: This conference was first conceived at the Conference on Daoism and Ecology, held at the Harvard University Center for World Religions in 1998. Here Harrison Moretz, Liu Ming, Livia Kohn, and Louis Komjathy first met and agreed that it might be both inspiring and fruitful to bring scholars and practitioners together in a secluded setting to talk about and experience different forms of Daoist cultivation. Now, almost two years later, the conference is about to become a reality, thanks mainly to the untiring efforts of Louis Komjathy and, very importantly, to the generous financial support of the Forum on Religion and Ecology, under the directorship of Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim.
Papers are no longer available in PDF format. They are due to be published in a collection edited by Louis Komjathy
Schedule
| May 9 |
Wednesday |
| 2-6 pm | Arrival |
| 6-7:30 | Dinner, Introductions, Orientation |
| 8-9 | Practice |
| Harrison Mor | Meditation and Self-Massage |
| May 10 | Thursday |
| 7-8 | Practice |
| Michael Winn | Inner Smile |
| 8-8:45 | Breakfast |
| 9-11:30 | Panel 1: Early Cultivation |
| Livia Kohn | Chair |
| Harold Roth |
The 'Numinous Essay' in the Huainanzi and the Foundations of Inner Cultivation Practice |
| Patricia Leong | The Daoyin tu |
| James Miller | Living Light: Shangqing Visualization in Theory and Practice |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30-3:30 | Practice |
| Jeff Nagel | Qigong |
| 3:30-6 | Panel 2: Modern Cultivation |
| Michael Saso | Chair |
| Solala Towler | The Slippery Art of Wuwei |
| Harrison Moretz | Daoist Elements of Taiji quan |
| Scott Phillips | Push-Hands and Wuwei: How Daoist Method Embodies Daoist View |
| 6-7 | Dinner |
| 7-9 | Free conversation |
| 9-10 | Practice |
| Liu Ming | Zuowang |
| May 11 | Friday |
| 7-8 | Practice |
| Patricia Leong | Liuzi jue |
| 8-8:45 | Breakfast |
| 9-12 | Panel 3: Ethics and Ascetics |
| Harold Roth | Chair |
| Livia Kohn | Morality and Daoist Cultivation |
| Suzanne Cahill | Women's Cultivation in the Tang |
| Chunyi Lin | Daoist Ascetic Practices |
| Brock Silvers | Modern Daoist Communities in China and the U.S. |
| 12-12:45 | Lunch |
| 2-3 | Practice |
| Solala Towler | Wuji gong |
| 3-6 | Panel 4: Internal Alchemy |
| Terry Kleeman | Chair |
| Elena Valussi | Nüdan-Female Alchemy |
| Xun Liu | To Enter the Chamber: The Ethos of Duo Practice in Late Ming Inner Alchemy |
| Roger Jahnke | Three Treasure Neidan: A Form of Internal Alchemy |
| Michael Winn | Daoist Alchemical Formulas as a Deep Language Structure for Communication with Nature |
| 6-7 | Dinner |
| 7-9 | Free conversation |
| 9-10 | Practice |
| Scott Phillips | Qigong |
| May 12 | Saturday |
| 7-8 | Practice |
| Roger Jahnke | Neidan |
| 8-8:45 | Breakfast |
| 9-11:30 | Panel 5: Medicine and Daoist Cultivation |
| Suzanne Cahill | Chair |
| Heiner Fruehauf | Acupuncture Points: Mythology and Symbolism |
| Jeff Nagel | Daoism and Chinese Medicine |
| Nam Singh | Daoist Dietetics |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch |
| 2:30-3:30 | Practice |
| Harrison Moretz | Hunyuan gong |
| 3:30-6 | Panel 6: Ritual and Lineage |
| James Miller | Chair |
| Liu Ming | The True and Simple: Criteria for Orthodox Practice According to the Liu-Zhang Covenant |
| Michael Saso | On the Transmission and Practice of Daoist Registers |
| Terry Kleeman | The Dao of Rites: Ritual Performance as a Path to Transcendence |
| 6-7 | Dinner |
| 7-9 | Free conversation |
| 9-10 | Practice |
| Heiner Fruehauf | Qigong |
| May 13 | Sunday |
| 7-8 | Practice |
| 8-9 | Breakfast |
| 9-9:30 | Concluding ceremony |
Participants
Suzanne Cahill
secjbm34@aol.com
Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the
West in Medieval China (Stanford UP, 1993)
Heiner Fruehauf
heiner@teleport.com
The Five Organ Networks of Chinese Medicine (Portland
Institute for Traditional Medicine, 1997)
Pearls from the Golden Cabinet: The Practical Guide to the Use
of Chinese Herbal Formulas (Portland Institute for Traditional
Medicine, 1997)
Roger Jahnke
rjahnke@west.net
The Healer Within (Harper Collins, 1991)
The Healing Promise of Qi (Contemporary Books, 2002)
Terry Kleeman
terry.kleeman@colorado.edu
Livia Kohn
lkohn@bu.edu
God of the Dao: Lord Lao in History and Myth (U Michigan,
1998)
Daoism Handbook (E. Brill, 2000).
Louis Komjathy
komjathy@bu.edu
Patricia Leong
leonglaoshi@yahoo.com
Chunyi Lin
linsfqigong@msn.com
Liu Ming
liudao@aol.com
Dragon's Play: A New Taoist Transmission of the Complete
Experience of Human Life (Berkeley: Great Circle Lifeworks,
1991)
Xun Liu
xun-liu@worldnet.att.net
"In Search of Immortality: A Study of Travel in Early
Twentieth Century Neidan Practice." Taoist Resources 7.1 (1997),
23-42.
James Miller
jem@daoiststudies.org
Daoism and Ecology, ed., with Norman Girardot and Liu
Xiaogan (Harvard UP, 2001).
Harrison Moretz
moretz@earthlink.net
Scott Phillips
scophillips@yahoo.com
Harold D. Roth
hdroth@brownvm.brown.edu
Original Tao: Inward Training and the Foundations of Taoist
Mysticism (Columbia UP, 1999)
Michael Saso
msaso@aol.com
The Teachings of Taoist Master Chuang (Yale UP, 1978)
Taoism and the Rite of Cosmic Renewal (Washington UP, 1972)
Nam Singh
Fax: 415-661-7160
Brock Silvers
bls@taorestore.org
The Taoist Manual (Sacred Mountain Press, 2001)
Solala Towler
solala@abodetao.com
A Gathering of Cranes: Bringing the Tao to the West (Eugene,
OR: Abode of the Eternal Tao, 1996)
Mary Evelyn Tucker
mtucker@bucknell.edu
Elena Valussi
elena_valussi@yahoo.com
Michael Winn
winn.tao@att.net
Healing Tao
Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Energy (Healing
Tao Books, 1993)