Some teachings are preserved in books. Others are preserved in people.
In this episode we visit with Johann Hausen, translator, publisher, practitioner, and long-time student of Daoist traditions in the Wudang Mountains. What begins with martial arts and Chinese medicine quickly opens into a wider conversation about cultivation, character, and the responsibility of carrying knowledge forward.
We explore the foundations of internal alchemy, not as a collection of techniques, but as a lifelong process of refining oneself through everyday life. Why difficult people may be our greatest teachers. How attachment can hide in the things we love most. And why the real work often happens far from the meditation cushion.
Along the way we discuss preserving traditional teachings, the role of books in a digital world, and Johann’s work translating and publishing texts that might otherwise be lost. Beneath it all is a simple but challenging question: what does it mean to become a better human being, rather than simply a more knowledgeable one?
It is crucial to change or at least to stimulate the patients to see the world differently.
Johan Hausen
Johan has a martial arts background which eventually brought him to the Five Immortals Temple where he spent more than 5 years under the tutelage of Li Shifu.
There he studied a variety of subjects including taiji, longevity exercises, daoyin (guiding and leading of qi), alchemy, swordsmanship, martial arts, fengshui, yijing (The Book of Changes) divination, Daoist healing. He has entered the Daoist Pure Yang sect under Li Shifu and also entered the Dantai Bidong sect under his American teachers Shifu Jack and Shifu Josh; both sects fall under the umbrella of the Dragon Gate.
Johan currently works as a Chinese medicine practitioner in a psychosomatic clinic near Cologne. He also co-founded Purple Cloud Press with the mission statement to preserve the ancient knowledge of China, especially in regards to medicine, martial arts and philosophy.
Visit Johan Hausen and explore his books, courses, and ongoing work through the Purple Cloud Institute.
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