The Kongdan Foundation

Meditation: The Tripod of Filial Piety and the Great Unity

Hoping for the best for all of us on Tuesday... As I continue the journey, I am reminded that…...

Meditation: The Tripod of Filial Piety and the Great Unity Hoping for the best for all of us on Tuesday… As I continue the journey, I am reminded that the Great Unity described by the sages begins within. The world may be shared by all, but each of u…

Morning Meditation: The Ancient Pine and the Mountain

I have climbed TaiShan Mountain in Shandong dozens of times. Each ascent carried a different version of myself: the younger traveler seeking achievement, the middle-aged traveler seeking clarity, the older traveler seeking alignment, and now the storyteller gathering memories, preserving reflections, and recording what the mountain has revealed over a lifetime of return....

Morning Meditation: The Ancient Pine and the Mountain I have climbed TaiShan Mountain in Shandong dozens of times. Each ascent carried a different version of myself: the younger traveler seeking achievement, the middle-aged traveler seeking clarity, t…

Meditation — Living the Essence of Luminosity

(Pictures are meant to disappear into the meaning of the text. Imagery is meant to denote the absence of obstruction, clarity that emerges from stillness, and our connecting to lineage and a cosmological arc......

Meditation — Living the Essence of Luminosity (Pictures are meant to disappear into the meaning of the text. Imagery is meant to denote the absence of obstruction, clarity that emerges from stillness, and our connecting to lineage and a cosmol…

A Meditation on the Two Lives Moving Through Us

with the bridge and the path ahead Taking steps across the narrow bridge, you feel the quiet shift beneath you — the sense that the path ahead is not merely a direction, but an unfolding....

A Meditation on the Two Lives Moving Through Us with the bridge and the path ahead Taking steps across the narrow bridge, you feel the quiet shift beneath you — the sense that the path ahead is not merely a direction, but an unfolding. The stone…

Birthday Meditation — The Returning of What Matters

“Memory doesn’t stay whole. It breaks, it scatters, it returns. What remains becomes the shape of who we are.” The pieces of the porcelain above were found along what was once the wall surrounding Nanjing in China....

Birthday Meditation — The Returning of What Matters “Memory doesn’t stay whole. It breaks, it scatters, it returns. What remains becomes the shape of who we are.” The pieces of the porcelain above were found along what was once the wall surrounding …

Unity Meditation — Letting the sour, the bitter, the sweet, and the beloved move through you

The picture above shows Confucius, Buddha, and Lao Tzu drinking from a vat of vinegar. It is said to have originated in 1000 A.D. ...

Unity Meditation — Letting the sour, the bitter, the sweet, and the beloved move through you The picture above shows Confucius, Buddha, and Lao Tzu drinking from a vat of vinegar. It is said to have originated in 1000 A.D. Unity as the diorama becoming whole. Sit quietly for a moment and …

Meditation — The Continuing Spirit

The Connection Between the Chinese Characters and Jung’s “Unknown” The four Chinese characters on the plaque — …...

Meditation — The Continuing Spirit The Connection Between the Chinese Characters and Jung’s “Unknown” The four Chinese characters on the plaque — 弥羅内宮, Miluo Inner Palace — name a chamber in Daoist (Taoist) cosmology associated with…

Sunday Meditation — “The Shape of Things to Come”

At the Confucius Temple in Qingdao, this prayer altar stands in stillness — a place where incense rises, intentions settle, and the heart remembers what it longs to release....

Sunday Meditation — “The Shape of Things to Come” At the Confucius Temple in Qingdao, this prayer altar stands in stillness — a place where incense rises, intentions settle, and the heart remembers what it longs to release. The dragons carved alon…

Morning Meditation — The Universal Song

In the early stillness of the day, let your breath slow and your thoughts soften. Sit with the image of five small clay musicians from the Han Dynasty — humble figures, unadorned, kneeling in silence, yet carrying a teaching that reaches across two thousand years....

Morning Meditation — The Universal Song In the early stillness of the day, let your breath slow and your thoughts soften. Sit with the image of five small clay musicians from the Han Dynasty — humble figures, unadorned, kneeling in silen…

Today’s Meditation: Transmutation in nature and the return to Unity

Dragon and Phoenix Relief, Dujiangyan Waterworks A carved stone relief showing the Dragon and Phoenix in balanced motion, framed within an oval border....

Today’s Meditation: Transmutation in nature and the return to Unity Dragon and Phoenix Relief, Dujiangyan Waterworks A carved stone relief showing the Dragon and Phoenix in balanced motion, framed within an oval border. The dragon rises with coiled strength, its sc…