The Huang Di Neijing and the other  “Huang Lao“ texts that support and inform it are an incredible, rich repository of wisdom and knowledge.

Not only in general terms but in specifically addressing the challenges we face in the world today both as individuals and as a global society the Neijing offers us a vision that is profoundly beautiful, satisfying and highly practical.

Proceeding from careful and meticulous observation of the natural world the Neijing authors build a model of life processes that guide us to an experience and an understanding of the unity of life. Based on these models they offer us ideas about how to construct life styles and societal systems that follow and move in harmony with the cycles of movement around us.

Through the practice of Chinese medicine the wisdom encapsulated in the Neijing is already working in every corner of the globe to reduce pain and suffering. The true potential of Neijing medicine and Neijing science to make a positive impact in the world, to reduce suffering and to promote peace is only beginning to be realized.

In order to make use of the information the Neijing transmits we have to both immerse ourselves in the lived experience of Neijing science, to feel and see for ourselves the truths it is presenting while at the same time remain critical and exploratory, testing what is written against experience. This is one of the Neijing’s great strengths, it is not a religious text, it is a manual of life from the mundane to the transcendent, and explicitly instructs us to confirm all of its statements against our personal experiences.

The Neijing is both a practical manual that acknowledges the transcendent mystical reality behind everyday life and a religious text that asks for its transcendent insights to be put to use practically in the practice of clinical medicine and societal governance.

At the Living Neijing Academy the goal is first and foremost to offer instruction in a path to bringing the Neijing text to life, experiencing the insights of the Neijing first hand through personal experience. This is done through parallel study of the text along side the self cultivation practices of dao yin, nei gong and qigong, through careful observation of yin yang, the cycle of the seasons and the evolutions of the five phases, and finally through the application of principals both in the practice of medicine and other situations and projects.