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I work to bring harmony and balance to my community and the world. I believe we must evolve rapidly to help all sentient beings survive and thrive.
Daoist teachings and practices offer a uniquely effective, powerful, and effortless path through life
Love, wisdom, charity, and insight arise in the individual and spread outward to the community, country, and world
An enlightened mind requires a foundation in a strong, healthy body
A plant-based (vegan) diet is a gift to our own health as well as millions of tortured animals and a warming worldDiscrimination based on race, gender identity, religious beliefs, or sexual preference is a cancer best cut from society
Always do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do
The morally bankrupt destruction of the natural world dooms sentences us all to a life of disconnection and suffering
Acting with compassion, frugality, and humility benefits the world and gives us each an all-important sense of purposeA regard for all sentient beings, health, justice, and spirituality simply must replace speed-and-greed materialism
In engaging virtual worlds over the real one, we become less human and lose the life we evolved to live
If these ideas move you, learn more below!
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Monk Yun Rou
Daoist Monk Yun Rou (his name means Soft Cloud) has been called the new Alan Watts for his Daoist teachings and the Zen Gabriel Garcia-Marquez for his works of magical realism set in China. Born Arthur Rosenfeld in New York City, he received his academic education at Yale, Cornell, and the University of California. By leave of the Chinese government, he was ordained a monk at the Chun Yang (Pure Yang) Daoist Temple in Guangzhou, China. His award-winning books, optioned for film in both Hollywood and Asia, bridge spirituality, philosophy, and history, while his work has appeared in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Parade, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, WebMD, Fox Business News, and numerous other websites and newspapers
Photography: Angela Alvarez
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