Taoist Yoga: Alchemy & Immortality
by Charles Luk, Lu K'uan Yu
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Author: Charles Luk, Lu K'uan YuEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-01-01
ISBN: 0877280673
Number of pages: 206
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
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Book Review: It's worth your effort to practice
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best Chinese book on Taoist Yoga written by a great master born in Qing Dynasty. Charles Luk did a great job in translating this classic text (its Chinese original also contains the lineage of the master himself and his good intention to transmit this knowledge to a wider audience). The aim of this practice is to build an immortal soul (note: not an immortal body), and the process certainly demands more effort and time that can hardly be available to the average person who has to have a regular 9-5 job! The demand of such a practice is evident from the first chapters. Basically the first practice is meditation with one's mind focused on the point between one's eyebrows. Until when should one go to the second step? Well, until one gets into deep meditation that one (sorry for male only) gets an erection. And then one should test whether the erection will go away with simple deep breathes. If it does, sorry boy, continue your meditation. Only when erection stands after deep breaths should one do microcosmic orbit circulation (to "collect" one's sexual energy, so it says).
However, one should not be disappointed. If one's objective is to build a health body and a calm and relaxed mind (free from worry and depression), a contemporary teacher will advise one to do some initial meditation and then can directly go into microcosmic orbit circulation. After that one can practice (as per chapter 3) into opening eight psyche/chi channels. By that time, the practitioner's mind will be relaxed and his/her whole body filled with comfortable chi. He/she will come to a stage that he/she can benefit most, health wise, from the practice. For an average contemporary person, he/she has no need to proceed further (actually it would be quite difficult for him to proceed further because he lacks the initial training in total relaxation. Erection is actually a signal for being into the desired level of total relaxation; hence a female can also practice the immortal art, just that she won't have the benefit of a definite signal to go by).
Good luck to your practice. It's worth the effort, I can tell you....
Summary of Taoist Yoga: Alchemy & Immortality
A comprehensive course of Taoist yoga. Instructions by ancient enlightened patriarchs and masters are translated here for the first time. A classic work.Yoga Books
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