Located in Portland, Oregon, The Taoist Center is a place where students of the Dao can gather to study, discuss and examine their connection to the Dao. The Taoist Center also provides practice space for acupuncturists, body workers and students of Asian influenced medicines.

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Calendrical Hexagrams

Heaven's Cymbal

Heaven's Cymbal

Central to the mission of The Taoist Center is an understanding of the Yi Jing as a canonical Daoist text.  The Yi Jing is an oracular document –divinatory guidance that has persisted for thousands of years.

Here the Hexagrams of the Yi Jing are presented in a calendrical wheel.  Every five to six days the Hexagram will change.  The arrangement used in this presentation is an amalgam of the work of Shao Yong, a 12th century Chinese scholar, and the Gregorian calendar.

The Hexagram, Gua Ci and Yao Ci shown here are from the Yi Jing translated by Wu Jing Nuan.

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Hexagram 38, Kuí: Strange

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Hexagram 38, Kuí: Strange cont.

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Hexagram 38, Kuí: Strange cont. II

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Hexagram 38, Kuí: Strange cont. III

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Hexagram 38, Kuí: Strange cont. IV

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Upcoming events at The Taoist Center

Please come and join us for our First Friday art show, tonight, starting at 6pm and running until 9pm. Showing tonight are P. Kriscunas and Marie Pearson.

Meditative Imagery

In addition to our library of canonical texts, The Taoist Center's Portland office is also a small visual art gallery. At the moment, we are displaying original artwork by P. Kriscunas and Marie Pearson.

Taoist Wisdom

Not all thoughts and lessons come neatly packaged and tied with a straight syllogistic string. Discontinuity and contrast promote and underlie perception and awareness much more than uniformity.

- Wu Jing Nuan