Booklets

Wu-Wei for Dinner: Easy Grain-Free, High-Energy Meals for Bigu and Everyday

by Jill Gonet

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Bigu, for some people, means intermittent fasting, and perhaps educating the stomach about what one should be eating to foster one’s cultivation.  For others, bigu means abstention from grain, and this cookbook offers a solid collection of delicious and easily prepared meals that are grain-free.  The recipes strike a happy medium and include a few poultry dishes and a couple of fish dishes, in addition to vegetarian dishes.  All of the recipes in the book come from years of experience in creating simple, satisfying, and economical nourishment that fosters cultivation.  Dr. Sun had many favorite dishes, and when he especially liked something, we would note it down, and he would also give that meal a name, so all of the recipes in this book were his favorites and were named by him, over the many years of his service in healing and teaching our community.

Developing the Energetic Matrix with Internal Observation

by Jill Gonet

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Traditionally, in Northern China, cultivation first begins with qi cultivation, focuses on the development of the energetic body and matrix, and then after that proceeds to training the mind with meditation and quiet sitting.  This allows us to ground the energy before engaging in quiet sitting and internal observation practice—practices which are performed not merely to calm the mind, but to attune our internal energy to the spirit and to the Tao.  This allows greater development of the body and energetic matrix, at certain junctures in the cultivation process, than qigong practice alone. Highly recommended for practitioners wanting to refresh outmoded habits and reflexes, as well as take their energetic and spiritual development to another level.