THE KONGDAN FOUNDATION, INC.
SPRINGFIELD, MO

References and further readings and study ( a listing of fifty books in my personal library that help to guide my thoughts and writing. Additional books and materials are added as they become available). Wu wei – the Art of doing Nothing I am happy and honored to confirm my election as vice-president of the The Kongdan Foundation, Inc. It’s mission is to strengthen the capacity of people throughout the world to meet the needs of global independence. To advance this mission our purpose is to develop partnerships in the following areas: The President/CEO of The Kongdan Foundation, Daniel C DeCarlo has taught and lived for many years in China. He is a published author and is considered a scholar of Chinese history and philosophy. He recently taught as an adjunct professor and at Confucius Institute at Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida when not living in Qufu, in Shandong Province in China. Dan and family recently moved from Florida to Springfield in southwest Missouri in July 2015. The face book page for The Kongdan Foundation is current and actively encouraging people to follow. Eastern philosophy felt philosophically speaking or considered, “the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul”, rejecting views of God as separate from the world.” In my opinion, his thinking resembled the Taoist and shaman. He as much as anyone, opened us and the west to ideas espoused by Eastern philosophy. With Emerson we could all be ourselves and become transcendental. In America, it was the early transcendental writers Telling us that the further we get from who we are, we retreat into our future. As if following the stars that were to be plotted by the surveyor,