We have only one life to live –
Zhi Dao teaches you how to live it to its fullest.

Grand Master Wei Ren Feng

The Taoist Center

3824 Macarthur Boulevard
Oakland, California 94619
510-336-0129
info@thetaoistcenter.com

Zhi Dao Guan – is translated as “The View, Vision, or Perspective of the Ultimate/Supreme Path” - (GUAN: a view of; ZHI: Ultimate/Supreme; and DAO:  Path or The Way).  The name was coined by Grand Master Wei Ren Feng and today Zhi Dao Guan is the culmination of a life-long practice of Master Dr. Alex Feng (Feng Er Chuan).

Zhi Daoism was founded by Dr. Wei Ren Feng in China as Grand Master Feng formalized the teachings of his family’s multiple generations of Daoist scholars, priests and practitioners. Grand Master Feng was educated in China and received his Doctorate of Philosophy in Germany during the Second World War. He returned to China with his wife, Elizabeth, and Master Alex Feng was born in Guangzhou (Canton), China.

During the Cultural Revolution in China, the Feng family relocated to Taiwan where Master Feng was raised. They immigrated to the United States in 1963. Grand Master Feng continued to develop his philosophy of Zhi Daoism and often taught at various locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Grand Master Feng always kept a small notebook with him in which he jotted his musings, observations, and insights. These are written in Chinese, German and English and continue to inform the development of Zhi Daoism through Master Feng’s translations. Upon Grandmaster Feng’s death in 1988, Master Alex Feng, who was ordained as a Daoist priest in 1972, became the lineage holder of Zhi Daoism.

Master Feng built his martial arts institute and his medical practice on a foundation of Zhi Daosim. He created Zhi Dao Guan, The Taoist Center, that opened in 2002,  to fully actualize the Daoist principles of  the integration of the spiritual, medical/healing, and physical aspects for a healthy life. The Center houses Dr. Feng’s Clinic for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wu Tao Kuan The Martial Arts Institute, and the Zhi Dao Temple.

Zhi Dao Guan is the umbrella organization for the three pillars of Zhi Daosim:  Healing – the Clinic for Traditional Chinese Medicine founded by Dr. Alex Feng in 1976 when acupuncture was first legalized in California; Physical/Martial - Wu Tao Kuan Martial Arts Institute , the martial arts school founded by Dr. Alex Feng in 1973; and Spiritual - Zhi Dao – the Temple formalized with the opening of the Taoist Center in 2002.

Zhi Dao Guan is the first major center devoted entirely to the Taoist arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. The incorporation of the three pillars honors the commitment of Daosim to cultivate the jing, qi and shen – life essence, energy and spirit. Located in an urban area, Zhi Dao Guan’s focus is to bring Daoism to every person who is receptive to the teachings and to disseminate the love for humanity inculcated by the teachings of Grand Master Feng.