Taoist Meditation (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Thomas Cleary | knygos.lt

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The
ancient meditation techniques of Taoism encompass a wide range of
practices—with an aim toward cultivating a healthy body as well as an
enlightened mind. These selections from classic texts of Taoist meditation
represent the entire range of techniques—from sitting meditation practices to
internal alchemy. Most of the texts appear here in English for the first time.

Selections
are taken from the following classics:

Anthology
on Cultivation of Realization:

A document from 1739 (Ming Dynasty) that emphasizes development of the natural,
social, and spiritual elements in human life.
Treatise
on Sitting Forgetting:

A Tang Dynasty text that sets meditation practice in terms familiar to
Confucians and Buddhists.
Sayings
of Taoist Master Danyang:

Wisdom of the Taoist wizard and representative of the Complete Reality School.
Secret
Writings on the Mechanism of Nature:

An anthology taken from one hundred sixty-three Taoist sources, including
ancient classics and works on meditation and spiritual alchemy, along with
admonitions and teachings of the great Taoist luminaries.
Zhang
Sanfeng's Taiji Alchemy Secrets:

A treatise on the inner mediation practices that are the proper foundation of
the martial art Taiji.
Secret
Records of Understanding the Way:

A rare and remarkable collection of talks by an anonymous Taoist master of the
later Qing dynasty (1644�1911). Traditional teachings with a sometimes
strikingly modern bent.