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Hello, my name is Jacob Newell.\u00a0 My Daoist ordination name is Gu Shen Yu (\u8c37\u795e\u923a), so sometimes I go by Jacob Gu.\u00a0 I write this blog as Nameless Stream, Wuming Chuan (\u7121\u540d\u5ddd).\u00a0 My close Daoist students call me Gu, which means Valley or Mountain Gorge.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve studied with numerous teachers over the past 30 years\u00a0and found my home practice in Laozi\u2019s wuweidao – I have inherited a suite of traditional practices of hygiene, meditation, & ritual that support and express Laozi’s teaching.\u00a0 I call my school Old Oak School of Dao – my website is www.oldoakdao.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wuweidao is a contemplative path of\u00a0communing with our original nature (Dao-De<\/a>).\u00a0 We have formal practice methods passed down from the long-flowing stream of Daoist tradition, but more importantly we take an uncontrived, natural view of reality inspired by and supported by direct lineage transmission.<\/p>\n I started this blog because I want to share the perspective of our tradition.\u00a0 My wuweidao lineage teacher was Liu Ming, a westerner who inherited a 1,000-year old aristocratic family tradition from Shanxi province from a hermit refugee in Taiwan.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of chatter out there about Daoism, and it\u2019s easy to find ourselves confused.\u00a0 My numerous teachers have provided me with\u00a0a base for correct practice, which I am happy to share with\u00a0you, if you are interested in this path.<\/p>\n I am based in northern California and am working on several projects including a training manual that covers different aspects of Daoist study & cultivation \u2013 academics, philosophy, hygiene, meditation, & ritual.\u00a0 I am also hosting a wuweidao cultivation group<\/a> in Santa Rosa, CA, to support the practice of Zuowang<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m calling my more extensive apprenticeship the Original Root\u00a0Investiture<\/a>.\u00a0 A central feature of the apprenticeship\u00a0is my unpublished translation & commentary of the Dao De Jing, which opens up the text for practical use in meditation & qi-cultivation.\u00a0 Adepts who complete the program are eligible to become vested members of Original Root Order<\/a>, a group I have established to carry forward the unique transmission I received from Liu Ming.<\/p>\n You can hear more about our approach to Daoist cultivation throughout this blog and my website, which has a few recorded talks.\u00a0 You can also view a welcome video at the Old Oak School of Dao YouTube channel<\/a>.\u00a0 In addition, toward the end of 2020 I started issuing a monthly Dark Moon Newsletter<\/a>, which focuses on a basic look at Chinese almanac-astrology and includes links to any new blog posts or upcoming offerings.\u00a0 I enjoy corresponding with people who are sincerely committed to the path, so please\u00a0feel free to contact me.<\/p>\n Stability & openness,<\/p>\n Jacob Newell (\u7121\u540d\u5ddd)<\/p>\n oldoakdao@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello, my name is Jacob Newell.\u00a0 My Daoist ordination name is Gu Shen Yu (\u8c37\u795e\u923a), so sometimes I go by Jacob Gu.\u00a0 I write this blog as Nameless Stream, Wuming Chuan (\u7121\u540d\u5ddd).\u00a0 My close Daoist students call me Gu, which means Valley or Mountain Gorge. I\u2019ve studied with numerous teachers over the past 30 years\u00a0and … Continue reading “About Me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}