Library's review
The ancient meditation techniques of Taoism encompass a wide range of practices that aim to cultivate a healthy body as well as an enlightened mind. These selections from classic Taoist texts represent the entire range of meditation technques and practices, from sitting meditation to inner alchemy.
Taoist Meditation contains sections from:
Anthology on the cultivatin of realizatin: A Ming-dynasty text on the development of the natural, social, ans spritual elements in human llife.
Treatise on sitting forgetting: a Tang-dynasty text on meditation practice.
Sayings of Taoist Master Danyang: The wisdom of a Taoist wizard and representationve of the Complete Reality School.
Secret writings on the mechanisms of nature: An anthology taken from 163 Taoist sources, including ancient 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 meditation pracitces that are the proper foudation of Tai chi.
Secret records of understanding the way: A rare and remarkable collection of talks by an anonymous Taoist master of the late Qing dynasty-traditional teachings with a strikingly modern bent.
Thomas Cleary is the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic-including the best-selling Art of War.
Contents
Translator's introduction
Anthology on the cultivation of realization
Treatie on sitting forgetting
Sayings of Taoist Master Danyang
Secret writings on the mechanisms of nature
Zhang Sanfeng's Taiji Alchemy Secrets
Secret records of understanding the way
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Most of these writings appear here in English for the first time.Taoist Meditation contains sections from:
Anthology on the cultivatin of realizatin: A Ming-dynasty text on the development of the natural, social, ans spritual elements in human llife.
Treatise on sitting forgetting: a Tang-dynasty text on meditation practice.
Sayings of Taoist Master Danyang: The wisdom of a Taoist wizard and representationve of the Complete Reality School.
Secret writings on the mechanisms of nature: An anthology taken from 163 Taoist sources, including ancient 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 meditation pracitces that are the proper foudation of Tai chi.
Secret records of understanding the way: A rare and remarkable collection of talks by an anonymous Taoist master of the late Qing dynasty-traditional teachings with a strikingly modern bent.
Thomas Cleary is the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic-including the best-selling Art of War.
Contents
Translator's introduction
Anthology on the cultivation of realization
Treatie on sitting forgetting
Sayings of Taoist Master Danyang
Secret writings on the mechanisms of nature
Zhang Sanfeng's Taiji Alchemy Secrets
Secret records of understanding the way
Show Less
ISBN
1570625670 / 9781570625671
Publication
Shambhala Publications, Inc.