CLUB MASTER HOANG: POST 639 13JAN.2024 Exercise ANH DUONG - Chart of Five Elements

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A LAND OF WONDERS

POST 639 January 13, 2024

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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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POST 639 January 13, 2024

A LAND OF WONDERS

This text alludes to many of forms/quyen in our arts of VIETCHI.

Enjoy this adventure

A LAND OF WONDERS

CHARLES PHAN HOANG

Could we make a dream, a dream that comes true!

I know a fabulous Land-of-Wonders. It’s ten thousand times larger than Disneyland in California; a hundred thousand times more attracting than the famous Toronto Zoo which houses 5,000 animals or the fascinating Yokohama Zoo, recently established (1999) in Japan. Yellowstone National Park in the USA, one of the best wildlife-park can just give you a modest idea of our Land-of-Wonders (LW) where you are not an observer, nor a visitor, you are a dynamic participant, a proud owner.

Of course, in this Land-of-Wonders there are all sorts of lions, tigers, panthers, elephants, bears, horses, snakes, turtles, and so on, but you can surprisingly encounter phoenixes, unicorns, and dragons. Nice dragon, terrifying dragon, yellow dragon, blue dragon, red dragon and black dragon!

The mountain Hoanh-Son is higher than the Everest and the lake Luong-Son looks better than the Pacific Ocean. On a beautiful day you can explore this mountain by horse-back riding or even by tiger riding to discover all the beauty of life and the secret of success, the rules of fighting and the causes of failure. In some place a giant crane will fly you over the lake Luong-Son to reach the most impressive fall Van-Ba at the top of a mythic volcano, protected by snow and cloud all the year round. Like the Niagara, the Van-Ba shows you the unsuspected power of water and cloud. In this high place between heaven and earth the immensity of the sky and the cosmic energy Truong-Thien connect you to the Universe. At the Open-gate Khai-Mon a yellow dragon will bring you to the Milky Way. The Open-gate is a mysterious gate; it consists of eight gates leading to over 40,000 ways of adventures. You could not have enough time in your life to visit all these beautiful ways but you can find at the entrance of the Open-gate a magic wand, then in one click you see the Navigation Map wide open showing you how intelligent people manage to arrange great things into nine-category Cuu-Doan, and how they do organize to put these things in a Magic Square. The magic square of the Land Land-of-Wonders -of-Wonders can be shown only to distinguish guest, as you are, at the Gate Ky-Mon.

Where is this gate? To find the way to this gate you need to be strong, to be sincere, and to be persistent. Arriving to the Gate Ky-Mon you can witness, sometimes, the terrific fight between a Thunder-tiger and a Yellow-dragon, or at another moment, a very gracious dance of Eighteen-birds, or the change of four seasons which teaches us the way of Nature and the reason of life: the nice Tiep-xuan, the warm Vo-ha, the colorful Ha-thu, and the powerful Trong-dong. You can also find at the Gate Ky-Mon the Book-of-names, the Book-of-seals, the Book-of-sword, the Book-of-energy Tinh-mat, and the Book of Teacher’s Way. All these secret books could help you in finding what is the best way for you to follow . The Gate Ky-Mon is a mysterious gate, it can be in the same time open and closed! Most people in the outside world could not understand this. But YOU, you must discover the truth: like in the practice of Zen, the truth is sometimes hidden behind the truth or put somewhere beyond the reach of reasoning.

At this time of winter when cold weather is hitting hard somewhere, surprisingly millions of lotus-flowers transform the great lake in the Land-of-Wonders into a paradise. You will see over there thousands of birds dancing by group of Five, of Eight, of Twelve, of Eighteen, or much more, and a pair of two-leaves Song-diep flying high around the world. Next to this fabulous lake, millions of trees in the forest inter-connect themselves into nine groups of Virtues: Dignity, Honor, Integrity, Honesty, Courage, Resilience, Rectitude, Self-confidence, and Benevolence. So when you see a pine it is no longer a simple pine; it reflects the Dignity in the largest sense. The oak is for the beauty of Rectitude, and so on.

This Land-of Wonders is a world of unlimited Capacity and unchallenged Beauty. As a member of Vietchi, you have the privilege of knowing it and owning it. Did you realize that? Be Strong. Phan-Hoang (18 December 2016)