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In honor of my Taiji teacher’s wife, Stephanie Hoppe, I want to say something about warp & weft in the textual tradition of Daoism.\u00a0 When I was going through my Taiji training, every time I would visit Frank’s home, there was Stephanie, weaving at her loom – her careful, relaxed yet intent presence was always humbling and somehow part of my training.\u00a0 Her work process and finished products alike remain an inspired teaching presence for me.<\/p>\n
The Chinese character for sacred text (j\u012bng, \u7d93) shows silk (\u7cf9) with a river flowing down (\u5ddb) from Heaven (\u4e00), and the character for work or practice (\u5de5).\u00a0 Sacred texts\u00a0such as the Dao-De & Zhou-Yi have a vertical quality of revelation – flowing down from Heaven.\u00a0 Jings are thus considered “warp” (\u7e31) texts – referring to the vertical strands in a loom.\u00a0 Weft (\u6a6b) strands snake horizontally through the warps to tie them together and complete the fabric.\u00a0 In Daoism, “weft” texts are not scriptures but works like commentaries that allow us to work with the jings and cross-thread them with one another.<\/p>\n
My wuweidao lineage teacher, Liu Ming, insisted that the Dao-De is a manual for meditation, but it needs to be \u201copened up\u201d for us by a person who is \u201cin the practice\u201d of non-conceptual meditation.\u00a0 Otherwise, it is warp without weft, an incomplete fabric.\u00a0 This is what we do in our\u00a0Wuweidao Cultivation Group\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 give our participants a fresh translation along with a look at the Chinese etymology of the warp, along with a weft commentary to connect Laozi\u2019s teaching with the actual practice of meditation.<\/p>\n Similarly, this 60-moon observation<\/a> is tying together the warps of the Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches with the separate warp of the Zhou Yi hexagrams to obtain a meaningful image of the qi-quality of each moon \u2013 a weft enabling us to work more effectively with either warp.<\/p>\n Check out Stephanie’s loom below!\u00a0 And I suggest you take a moment to appreciate some of her works at:\u00a0www.stephaniehoppe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n In honor of my Taiji teacher’s wife, Stephanie Hoppe, I want to say something about warp & weft in the textual tradition of Daoism.\u00a0 When I was going through my Taiji training, every time I would visit Frank’s home, there was Stephanie, weaving at her loom – her careful, relaxed yet intent presence was always … Continue reading “Warp & Weft (\u7e31\u6a6b)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Stephanie](\"https:\/\/oldoakdao.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Stephanie-Hoppe-Working-the-Loom-Estuary.jpg\")
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