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Jun Ming

Hunyuan, Daoist(Taoist) wisdom  


The word Hunyuan describes the state in which the entire universe is interconnected with each other and it is the one.


Daoism/Taoism holds that the universe is filled with life energy called qi as well as everything in the universe is composed of qi and the entire universe is one cluster of qi.  

Since Daoists/Taoist and Zen Buddhists have this notion, their conceptions of wisdom is different from those of other ideologies and traditions such as Socratic tradition.  


In many ideologies including those of Socratic tradition, people believe wisdom can be attained by comparing and contrasting.

For example, in order for a person to know something is hot, there must be something that is not hot.

This is because if everything in the universe has the same temperature, you cannot feel something is hot.

In this way, to know something, we need to dichotomize a thing and compare them.

In order to be “wiser”, we need to divide concepts further and compare them so that we can increase knowledge.


In contrast, Daoists/Taoists and Zen Buddhists hold that if you dichotomize things, you are destroying the objective truth, which exists as the way it is, by trying to understand it by using subjective human conceptions.  

Therefore, Daoists/Taoists believe that more you increase your knowledge, you get away from the ultimate truth.


Accordingly, to gain wisdom, which Daoists/Taoists and Zen Buddhists talk about, you must not dichotomize things, get rid of unnecessary knowledge, and experience the universe as the way it is.

Once you attain Daoist(Taoist)/Zen wisdom, you realize that the universe is the one (hunyuan).


The concept of hunyuan is applied to Chinese martial arts.

Martial arts called Xingyiquan and Yiquan train strength called hunyuanli.

It is a strength which can be executed by uniting the whole body.  

In addition to this, if you can feel that your whole body is part of the entire universe, that means you attained the higher level of hunyuanli.


Edited by Jun Ming


Hunyuan is the universe. We are one with the universe
Hun yuan is perfectly round. It is the universe


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Sep 26

This is very good. Thank you so much for sharing this.

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