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The Kongdan Foundation Connecting Eastern and Western Philosophy, Taoism, Confucius, Buddhism, enlightenment with Plato, Tolstoy, Emerson, etc.

The foundation's primary goal is to be a bridge to universal understanding demonstrating that we are of one spirit.

Meditation — Living the Essence of Luminosity(Pictures are meant to disappear into the meaning of the text. Imagery is m...
10/18/2026

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......

(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 Uswith the bridge and the path ahead Taking steps across the narrow bridge,...
10/11/2026

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....

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 ...
10/08/2026

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....

“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 youThe picture above shows Conf...
10/04/2026

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. ...

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 SpiritThe Connection Between the Chinese Characters and Jung’s “Unknown” The four Chinese ch...
09/27/2026

Meditation — The Continuing Spirit

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

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 stillne...
09/20/2026

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....

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 SongIn the early stillness of the day, let your breath slow and your thoughts soften....
09/18/2026

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....

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 UnityDragon and Phoenix Relief, Dujiangyan Waterworks A ca...
09/13/2026

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....

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…

Sunday’s meditation — “There Is Another Way”On my birthday in 2018, after spending the night on the summit, I watched th...
09/06/2026

Sunday’s meditation — “There Is Another Way”

On my birthday in 2018, after spending the night on the summit, I watched the first light rise over HuaShan Mountain — standing among the prayer ribbons of countless seekers, acknowledging our highest good and the Way that calls us forward....

On my birthday in 2018, after spending the night on the summit, I watched the first light rise over HuaShan Mountain — standing among the prayer ribbons of countless seekers, acknowledging our high…

Today’s Meditation — Walking with the Origins That Follow UsSit quietly and let the breath settle. Let the world soften ...
09/03/2026

Today’s Meditation — Walking with the Origins That Follow Us

Sit quietly and let the breath settle. Let the world soften until only the steady rhythm of your own presence remains....

Sit quietly and let the breath settle. Let the world soften until only the steady rhythm of your own presence remains. In this stillness, feel the memories that rise — not the ones you chase, but t…

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