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04/09/2026

One final place for the Taoist-Lifestyle Academy

Our international Academy group is almost complete, but one final place has become available for the 2026–2027 Taoist-Lifestyle Academy.
Perhaps that place is meant for someone who has been looking for a way to go deeper.

The Academy is a multi-year study and practice program for people who want to explore Taoist philosophy, Internal Alchemy (Neidan), Taoist health practices, and Chinese Internal Martial Arts as parts of one coherent tradition.

It is not a collection of separate online courses. Students work with classical texts, theory and practice, meet with us online each month, and gradually develop their understanding and training over a longer period of time.

Our current group brings together students from several countries, each with their own background and experience, but with a shared interest in serious and authentic study.

We are now open to one final candidate who feels ready to make that commitment.

Applications for this place are open until 7 September 2026. After that, the Academy will close for new admissions, and we will move to the waiting list for the 2027 intake.

More information and the application form can be found on https://www.taoist-lifestyle.com/academy

13/08/2026

Liqiu 立秋 2026

The First Wind of Autumn and the Art of Gathering

Angela J.H. Verkade | SEASONAL REFLECTION

Liqiu 立秋, the Beginning of Autumn, arrives while the year is still full of heat.

In 2026, Liqiu began on 7 August. The days remain bright and hot, and the so-called “autumn tiger” may still be present. Yet something has changed—not necessarily the temperature, but the direction.

Liqiu does not announce that summer has ended. It marks the moment when the movement of the year begins to turn.

The outward force of spring and summer has carried life into growth, flowering, heat, activity, and visible abundance. At Liqiu, another movement begins quietly beneath the surface: ripening, gathering, sorting, and preserving.

This is the first breath of autumn.

Link in bio or first comment for the complete article.

Painting: Autumn Pond (Qiu Chi 秋池) Ink painting by Prof. Dr. Dan KJ Vercammen (Fei Lingbi)

29/07/2026

English below

Met verdriet bereikte ons het nieuws dat Jons Hensel (21 maart 1951 – 25 juli 2026) is overleden.

Jons en Joost Ritman (10 maart 1941 – 5 juni 2026) deelden een bijzondere band en een grote visie. Nu lopen zij niet meer samen over het aardse pad, maar vervolgen zij samen hun weg over het hemelse pad.

Onze gedachten gaan uit naar hun dierbaren en allen die verbonden zijn aan de Embassy of the Free Mind en Stichting Het Wereldhart.

We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Jons Hensel (21 March 1951 – 25 July 2026).

Jons and Joost Ritman (10 March 1941 – 5 June 2026) shared a special bond and a great vision. They no longer walk the earthly path together, but now continue their journey together on the heavenly path.

Our thoughts are with their loved ones and everyone connected to the Embassy of the Free Mind and Stichting Het Wereldhart.

20/06/2026

A small reminder before the weekend:

Not everything you question needs an answer.

Zhuangzi once wondered if he was a man dreaming of being a butterfly… or the other way around.

Some questions are not meant to be solved, but to open something in you.

19/06/2026

🐉 Something is shifting.

The air feels heavier.
The body slightly more restless.
Everything is moving… a little too much.

Duanwu arrives not at a moment of strength,
but at a moment where strength begins to overflow.

In the old traditions, this was not a time to push forward.

It was a time to protect.

To hold what is yours.
To guard what is easily lost.
To remain whole when everything moves outward.

What in your life is asking not for more…
but for care?

🔗 Read the new article by Angela J.H. Verkade via link in bio or in first comment.

16/06/2026

🦋 One moment you are yourself.
The next… a butterfly.

Or were you always both?

A short story from Zhuangzi has puzzled readers for centuries. A man dreams he is a butterfly, fully immersed, fully real. Then he wakes… and no longer knows what is true.

Was he a man dreaming of being a butterfly?
Or a butterfly dreaming of being a man?

It sounds simple. Almost playful.

But what if it’s not about dreams at all—
but about how we divide reality, separate things, and hold on to what feels certain?

In Taoist thought, transformation is constant. The boundaries we trust may not be as solid as we think.

🌿 What if reality is more fluid than we allow it to be?

🔗 Read the new article: [link in bio or in first comment]

15/06/2026

You wake up.

Everything feels normal again.

But for a moment… it didn’t.

A dream can feel completely real while you’re inside it. Only afterwards do you call it “just a dream.”

Zhuangzi once asked:

What if the same is true the other way around?

What if what you now call “reality” is just another layer you’ve learned to trust?

Not to confuse you.
But to loosen something.

🌿 Maybe certainty is not where clarity begins.

🔗 Read the article: [link in bio or in first comment]

10/06/2026

You go looking for answers.
You find… nothing.

No teacher.
No clear direction.
No confirmation you’re on the right path.

Most people would call that failure.

But in classical Chinese thought, especially in Taoist and Buddhist traditions, this “nothing” is not empty in the way we think. It’s not a dead end. It’s not a mistake.

It’s a space where something else begins.

A Tang dynasty poet once wrote about searching for a hermit in the mountains and never finding him. Just a boy, a vague answer, and clouds covering everything.

No resolution.

And yet… that might be the point.

Because what if clarity doesn’t come from finding the right person, the right place, or the right answer?

What if it begins when those things fall away?

🙏🏻 Take a moment today:
Where in your life are you still trying to “find” something that might not be found that way?

🔗 Full article: [link in bio or in comments]

08/06/2026

🔍 What if the problem is not that you didn’t find it…
but that you are still trying to?

A man climbs into the mountains, searching for a master.
He asks a boy beneath the pines.

“The master went to gather herbs.”
“Where?”
“In these mountains…”
“But the clouds are too thick. I don’t know where.”

That’s it.
No meeting.
No answer.
No success.

Or is it?

In a short Tang dynasty poem, Jia Dao leaves us with something uncomfortable:
the possibility that not finding… IS the teaching.

In Taoist and Buddhist traditions, what we seek is often described as emptiness — not as absence, but as a different kind of presence. Something you cannot grasp, locate, or even “meet” in the way you expect.

So what if:
you stop looking for the master,
and start listening to the clouds?

📝Read the new article: (Link in bio or first comment)

05/06/2026

🌾 One crop is harvested. Another is planted.

In the Chinese seasonal calendar, Mangzhong 芒種 marks a brief and powerful threshold: the grain stands ripe in the fields, while new seedlings are pressed into the earth.

It is a season that asks a simple question:

What in your life is ready to be harvested?
And what is quietly asking to be planted?

Most of us spend our energy chasing what is next.

Mangzhong reminds us that wisdom also means recognizing what has already matured, gathering its fruits, and making space for a new cycle to begin.

In Taoist cultivation, timing matters as much as effort.

There is a time to grow.
A time to cut.
A time to sow.
And a time to protect what is still fragile.

Perhaps the most important work is not forcing the next harvest, but caring for the seedling that will one day become one.

🌿 What are you harvesting this season?
🌱 And what are you planting?

🔗 Read the full article: (link in bio or link in comments)

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