Online Course:
Fundamentals of Daoism
DaoDe Center invites everyone to a new comprehensive theoretical course about Daoism and Life - the Course “Fundamentals of Daoism”.
This Course is recommended to everyone who is interested in Art of nurturing life, who is already engaged in practice, or for the first time wants to discover the ancient teachings on which the entire Chinese civilization is built.
Please send applications for course registration by email: daouniver@gmail.com or in the
Payments and Start of classes
This course is designed in a such way that you can start listening to it from any month. The monthly cost of the course is $65 (UTC time: Saturday 10:00-11:00 am), or $82 (UTC time: Sunday 4:15-5:15 pm)
Classes are organized online on Zoom.
"Fundamentals of Daoism" Course in Glance
Course Description:
0. Introduction: What is Life and Sources of Life in Ancient Traditions
1. What is Daoism.
2. the History of Daoism.
3. Schools of Daoism and their characteristics.
4. Famous Daoists and Xians (Immortals).
5. Methods of Daoism by Schools and directions. Examples and parsing of methods.
6. Treatises of Daoism.
7. History of the Dao Zang and its composition.
8. The basic meaning of the terms of Daoism.
9. Rites, rituals, divinations, predictions.
10. Basic concepts of Daoist medicine.
11. Sexual practices and the art of inner chambers. A parsing of the methods.
12. Daoism and the Martial Arts.
13. The monasteries and mountains of Daoism.
14. Organization of life and daily regimen according to Daoism.
15. The Doctrine of cycles and transformations of energy.
16. Special section: Internal alchemy neidan.
17. External alchemy.
18. The rationale of paired perfection.
19. The doctrine of Heaven in Daoism.