Cultivating The Energy Of Life

Author : Liu Hua-Yang
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570623422
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating the Energy of Life written by Liu Hua-Yang and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1998-02-17 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern translation of Hui-ming Ching, the classic Taoist manual on cultivating and conserving energy as a means of achieving greater health, longevity, and inner peace To live a healthy and long life, to be tranquil and untouched by the dust of the mundane world, and to become one with the life-giving energy of the Tao—these are the goals of the practitioner of Taoist spirituality. The classic Chinese text Hui-ming ching (“Treatise on Cultivating Life”) is one of the most important Taoist classics on the arts of longevity and a major inspiration for many techniques of Qigong. Even two hundred years after its initial publication, it is still one of the most accessible works on a branch of Taoist practice that has been heretofore shrouded in mystery. Abandoning the symbolic language typically used in the ancient classics, it discusses the practices of the Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Orbits, the role of breath in circulating energy, and the conservation of procreative energy in a straightforward and concrete way. Now, in this new, complete translation, a foremost translator of Taoist texts clarifies and elucidates the Taoist methods of conserving and cultivating energy for the attainment of health, longevity, and inner peace.

Author : Liu Hua-Yang
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834828227
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating the Energy of Life written by Liu Hua-Yang and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1998-02-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the Hui-ming Ching, a classic Taoist manual on the circulation of internal energy by means of meditation and the inspiration for many techniques of Qigong. It is one of the few Taoist treatises to describe the landmarks of spiritual development and document the process of spiritual transformation from start to finish.

Author : Waysun Liao
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780834823600
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chi written by Waysun Liao and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chi is the invisible energy of life that flows in and around us throughout the universe. Used skillfully, it can have a remarkable effect on health and vitality—to the degree that you’d be tempted to call it magical, if it weren’t so completely natural. Here is a perfect introduction to chi that explains in a direct and simple way what it is and why it is essential to a healthy and vital life. It provides an easy-to-understand explanation of chi, and then helps readers recognize, develop, and strengthen their own chi through specific breathing techniques and basic exercises, all demonstrated by the author. There are many books on chi development through t’ai chi and qigong practice, but this one goes deeper to enable you to understand the fundamental principles as you cultivate it. This book is a reference for alternative health professionals such as acupuncturists and shiatsu therapists and their patients, as well as for anyone who practices t’ai chi, qigong, aikido, and other chi-based martial arts. To learn more about the author, please visit his website at www.taichitaocenter.com.

Author : Eva Wong
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834823780
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Stillness written by Eva Wong and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1992-11-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equanimity, good health, peace of mind, and long life are the goals of the ancient Taoist tradition known as "internal alchemy," of which Cultivating Stillness is a key text. Written between the second and fifth centuries, the book is attributed to T'ai Shang Lao-chun—the legendary figure more widely known as Lao-Tzu, author of the Tao-te Ching . The accompanying commentary, written in the nineteenth century by Shui-ch'ing Tzu, explains the alchemical symbolism of the text and the methods for cultivating internal stillness of body and mind. A principal part of the Taoist canon for many centuries, Cultivating Stillness is still the first book studied by Taoist initiates today.

Author : Richard E Clear
Publisher : Clear Silat Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780981616704
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chi Energy - Activation, Cultivation and Flow written by Richard E Clear and published by Clear Silat Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear explains beginner to advanced practices regarding Chi/Qi/Ki (Life-Force) activation, cultivation, and flow that allow an individual to personally experience, build, and work with Chi energy.

Author : David W. Clippinger
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 0857012541
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Qi written by David W. Clippinger and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can Qi offer you the means, tools and will to live a life of balance? Explaining what Qi is, where it comes from, how we use it, and how we can cultivate it in order to achieve wholeness and balance, this much-needed book combines knowledge and practice to explore all aspects of Qi, including its modern, everyday implications. The book not only covers the history of Qi, but also demystifies the vital philosophies and practices surrounding it. Filled with valuable information on how to recognise and cultivate Qi in order to increase your energetic capacity and return to a more efficient physical, emotional, and psychological state, it also illustrates Qi's central importance in meditation, Taiji, Qigong, and other Internal Arts practices that focus upon its vitality. The author also offers instruction on a number of methods for opening the energy gates of the body to cultivate Qi.

Author : Mantak Chia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 159477983X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing Love through the Tao written by Mantak Chia and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the bestseller • The first book to reveal in the West the Taoist techniques that enable women to cultivate and enhance their sexual energy • Reveals Taoist secrets for shortening menstruation, reducing cramps, and compressing more chi into the ovaries for greater sexual power • Teaches the practice of total body orgasm For thousands of years the sexual principles and techniques presented here were taught by Taoist masters in secret only to a small number of people (sworn to silence), in the royal courts and esoteric circles of China. This is the first book to make this ancient knowledge available to the West. The foundation of healing love is the cultivation, transformation, and circulation of sexual energy, known as jing. Jing energy is creative, generative energy that is vital for the development of chi (vital life-force energy) and shen (spiritual energy), which enables higher practices of spiritual development. Jing is produced in the sexual organs, and it is energy women lose continually through menstruation and child bearing. Mantak Chia teaches powerful techniques developed by Taoist masters for the conservation of jing and how it is used to revitalize women's physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Among the many benefits conferred by these practices are a reduction in the discomfort caused by menstruation and the ability to attain full-body orgasm.

Author : Mantak Chia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780943358192
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taoist Secrets of Love written by Mantak Chia and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ented here make the process of linking sexual energy and transcendent states of consciousness accessible to the reader.

Author : Eva Wong
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834828855
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmonizing Yin and Yang written by Eva Wong and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1997-08-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To age with the sun and moon and be renewed by spring and summer, to conserve the seeds of growth in autumn and winter and to be nourished by the eternal breath of the Tao—these are the goals of the Taoist alchemists, the masters of the arts of health, longevity, and immortality. This book is a translation of a concise Taoist alchemical manual known as the Dragon-Tiger Classic, along with its two most important commentaries. The classic, written in ancient times by an unknown author and published during the fifteenth century BCE, is regarded by contemporary Taoist practitioners as the most complete guide to spiritual transformation. It covers the three forms of Taoist practice: • External alchemy, concerned with the ingestion of minerals, herbs, and other substances to attain health, longevity, and immortality • Sexual alchemy, in which the practitioner uses the energy of a sexual partner to cultivate his or her own energy • Internal alchemy, the practice of meditation, calisthenics, and yogic postures to cultivate mind and body An extensive introduction by the translator and the inclusion of two commentaries by traditional Chinese authors aid the reader in understanding this concise, symbolic text.

Author : Yasuo Yuasa
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438424698
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy written by Yasuo Yuasa and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-09-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the body. Yuasa examines the concept of ki-energy as it has been used in such areas as acupuncture, Buddhist and Taoist meditation, and the martial arts. To explain the achievement of mind-body oneness in these traditions he offers an innovative schematization of the lived body. His approach is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, offering insights into Western philosophy, religion, medical science, depth psychology, parapsychology, theater, and physical education. To substantiate the relationship that ki-energy forms between the human body and its environment, Yuasa introduces contemporary scientific research on ki-energy in China and Japan, as well as evidence from acupuncture medicine and from the experience of meditators and martial arts practitioners. This evidence requires not only a rethinking of the living human body and of the mind-body and mind-matter relation, but also calls into question the adequacy of the existing scientific paradigm. Yuasa calls for an epistemological critique of modern science and explores the issue of the relation of teleology to science.