Jade Well T'ai Chi Ch'uan

Professor Cheng's Lectures Study Group

Just a reminder that the first meeting of the study group will take place this Friday March 25th 2022 at 7.30 PDT / 10.30 EDT / 15.30 CET / 14.30 GMT / 22.30 CST

We will meet for around 1 hour 30 minutes on the last Friday of the month.

Please see below for details to join Zoom, and note that the link is different from the Wednesday forum.
Times and Joining Zoom
Donations
Study Group Archive
Professor Cheng delivered lectures in New York City on two key Confucian texts, the Daxue (Great Learning) and The Doctrine of the Mean (Chongyong), and on Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. He also published a book on the Confucian texts, New Explanation of the Study of the [Doctrine of the] Mean (學 庸 新 解 xue yong xin jie). The first of his lectures in 1971 in New York was on the Daxue. This short but key text, one of the 'four books' of Confucianism, is a good point to begin our study of Professor Cheng's lectures.
The first meeting will begin with a brief introduction by Barbara Davis on the social and historical position of the Daxue.
We then plan to watch the short introduction that Professor Cheng gave to the lecture series.
Daniel Altschuler will then help orient us in Professor Cheng's book and learn how a Chinese classical text is laid out and how to distinguish between primary text and commentary. He will then demonstrate translating using available online dictionaries and working with the first two sentences of the Daxue.
After this we will look at Natasha Gorky Young's notes from the lecture on these two first sentences.
A pdf of Professor Cheng's book can be found here (many thanks to Choon Lui Ong):
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/.../1txwW10jYb.../view...
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/.../1iB4pH6qmZ4Bsx9udjhU.../view...
Following Meetings
In April we will continue translating the following two sentences of the Daxue and watch Professor Cheng lecturing on these two sentences and read through notes from students who were there.
And in May we will discuss Professor Cheng's commentary, alternate translations of the Daxue and our interpretations.
We expect the study group to proceed in this way slowly through the text.
It will be a work-in-progress figuring out how to conduct the group effectively. There will be many different levels of experience and familiarity with the texts, ideas, and knowledge of Chinese, so please be patient and send us any suggestions you might have.
Study Group Discussion Protocol
Please read if you will be attending.
- If you wish to speak or ask a question, you will need to either use the ‘raise hand’ function
(here is a short article on how to do so: https://www.online-tech-tips.com/.../how-to-raise-a-hand.../
)
- or type QUESTION, with your question into the ‘chat' box.
(here is a short article on how to do so: https://support.zoom.us/.../205761999-Using-webinar-chat
)
We will stick to the order of the raised hands and chat questions, alternating between the two.
- Please consider that others may also want to speak and keep your comments concise.
Times and Joining Zoom
The first study group meeting will take place at:
7.30 PDT / 10.30 EDT / 15.30 CET / 14.30 GMT / 22.30 CST
You don’t need to sign up for Zoom to join the meeting, just click this link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83590190171...
Or enter these details in Zoom:
Meeting ID: 1835 9019 0171
Password: 268152
Please try to log in 5-10 minutes before the hour so that we can start promptly.
In the upper right hand corner of the Zoom window it should say either Speaker View or Gallery View, select Gallery View.
Donations
Please consider a small donation of not more than $10 per month to support the costs and time of running the study group.
Donate to the Study Group
Study Group Archive
FORWARD TO A FRIEND
Click here if you would like to share the newsletter with someone.Professor Cheng delivering one of his lectures on the Daxue at 211 Canal St. NY.
Professor Cheng's Lectures Study Group
Just a reminder that the first meeting of the study group will take place this Friday March 25th 2022 at 7.30 PDT / 10.30 EDT / 15.30 CET / 14.30 GMT / 22.30 CST
We will meet for around 1 hour 30 minutes on the last Friday of the month.
Please see below for details to join Zoom, and note that the link is different from the Wednesday forum.
Times and Joining Zoom
Donations
Study Group Archive
Professor Cheng delivered lectures in New York City on two key Confucian texts, the Daxue (Great Learning) and The Doctrine of the Mean (Chongyong), and on Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. He also published a book on the Confucian texts, New Explanation of the Study of the [Doctrine of the] Mean (學 庸 新 解 xue yong xin jie). The first of his lectures in 1971 in New York was on the Daxue. This short but key text, one of the 'four books' of Confucianism, is a good point to begin our study of Professor Cheng's lectures.
The first meeting will begin with a brief introduction by Barbara Davis on the social and historical position of the Daxue.
We then plan to watch the short introduction that Professor Cheng gave to the lecture series.
Daniel Altschuler will then help orient us in Professor Cheng's book and learn how a Chinese classical text is laid out and how to distinguish between primary text and commentary. He will then demonstrate translating using available online dictionaries and working with the first two sentences of the Daxue.
After this we will look at Natasha Gorky Young's notes from the lecture on these two first sentences.
A pdf of Professor Cheng's book can be found here (many thanks to Choon Lui Ong):
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/.../1txwW10jYb.../view...
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/.../1iB4pH6qmZ4Bsx9udjhU.../view...
Following Meetings
In April we will continue translating the following two sentences of the Daxue and watch Professor Cheng lecturing on these two sentences and read through notes from students who were there.
And in May we will discuss Professor Cheng's commentary, alternate translations of the Daxue and our interpretations.
We expect the study group to proceed in this way slowly through the text.
It will be a work-in-progress figuring out how to conduct the group effectively. There will be many different levels of experience and familiarity with the texts, ideas, and knowledge of Chinese, so please be patient and send us any suggestions you might have.
Study Group Discussion Protocol
Please read if you will be attending.
- If you wish to speak or ask a question, you will need to either use the ‘raise hand’ function
(here is a short article on how to do so: https://www.online-tech-tips.com/.../how-to-raise-a-hand.../
)
- or type QUESTION, with your question into the ‘chat' box.
(here is a short article on how to do so: https://support.zoom.us/.../205761999-Using-webinar-chat
)
We will stick to the order of the raised hands and chat questions, alternating between the two.
- Please consider that others may also want to speak and keep your comments concise.
Times and Joining Zoom
The first study group meeting will take place at:
7.30 PDT / 10.30 EDT / 15.30 CET / 14.30 GMT / 22.30 CST
You don’t need to sign up for Zoom to join the meeting, just click this link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83590190171...
Or enter these details in Zoom:
Meeting ID: 1835 9019 0171
Password: 268152
Please try to log in 5-10 minutes before the hour so that we can start promptly.
In the upper right hand corner of the Zoom window it should say either Speaker View or Gallery View, select Gallery View.
Donations
Please consider a small donation of not more than $10 per month to support the costs and time of running the study group.
Donate to the Study Group
Study Group Archive
FORWARD TO A FRIEND
Click here if you would like to share the newsletter with someone.

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