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Practicing Dao

Our practice follows the Korean Daoist tradition of Daesoonjinrihoe. Our organization provides a holistic approach to leadership development through self-realization and cultivation of the mind and heart. We provide free access to educational seminars, meditation, and Daoist ceremonies called “Chisong.”

Cultivation of the Mind and Heart

Chisong

In Korea, traditional milestones in life are celebrated by what is called the Four Ceremonial Occasions. The ceremony celebrates coming of age, marriage, death or funeral rites, and veneration of ancestors. Chisong follows the form of the Four Ceremonial Occasions. Chisong is an act of expressing sincerity by offering food to the spirit, and the souls of the dead including God to resolve grudges and grievances of the present past, past life, and ancestry.

Korean Traditional Ceremony Table Setup

Gido & Suryeon (Meditation)

Gido & Suryeon are mantra-based meditation that is specific to the teachings of Daesoon. The mantra-based mediation helps to desensitize trauma and reduce anxiety and depression. Meditation range from 20 mins to 60 mins.

New Year's Greeting

Charity Work

Putting principles to practice, we constantly strive to make an impact in our community through volunteer efforts. Our volunteer efforts focus on the environment, food security, health, and women and youth.

Volunteers Packing Food

Education Seminars

We provide weekly educational seminars about Daoist practice, history, and philosophy. Understanding the fundamental principles of Dao is foundational to fostering humanism and compassion.

Classroom Lecture

Ox Seeking Pictures (Shimwudo)

A metaphoric visual representation of cultivation 

Six Steps of Spiritual Cultivation

Cultivation involves reciting mantras while focusing one's mind and heart with reverence and utmost sincerity and devotion to the purpose of attaining spiritual mastery. To do this, one should deeply settle your body and mind, and then gather your spirit to closely attend to Sangje while refining that spirit and energy in your lower dantian ('elixir field,' danjeon). This process of cultivation practice (Sudo Gongbu) can be explained as consisting of the following progression of stages: Bongchuk (奉祝, the presentation of offerings and invocation), Beonnoe (煩惱, the awareness of unease), Shingo (身苦, the awareness of physical suffering), Nanip (亂入, the entry of disturbances), Chwijeong (聚精, the accumulation of essence), and Gae-an (開眼, the opening of the divine-eye).

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