Taoist Yoga: Alchemy & Immortality

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Summary: A Taoist Treasury!
Review: The 'yoga' teaching in this book never was easily accessible - nor ever meant to be. It is the highest rung on the Taoist ladder,and often, its practitioners lived on remote mountain peaks - disinterested in the 'numbers game' or winning converts. To find a Taoist master - of Chao Pi Chen's calibre would have taken years, many hardships. Loathe to set their teachings down in words, texts such as this are therefore precious. Even for a native Chinese, the idioms in this text are incomprehensible, minus access to the inner tradition. Luckily, Lu K'uan Yu knew the real (practical) meaning of these idioms - and therefore translates not just a text, but the practical nuance. This text opens up a remarkable world - one the West has yet to tap into,as regards our knowledge of the paraphysical energies underpinning the life of bodies and cells, vital centres etc. Before the Communist revolution, elderly people practicing this yoga, found their greying hair turning black again. This is not immortality 'Hollywood style,' but a by-product of the Yoga. When I took this practice seriously - in a retreat, I could actually hear little 'electronic' bleeps - as the 'microcosmic circuit' became energised. It happens naturally - you can't force it to happen. This Taoist yoga makes sense of the saying 'the kingdom of heaven is within you.' It is!

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Summary: Chi kung praticioner
Review: Well this book is certainly not for beginer. You must have some background in Yoga or Meditation. You also have to read it carefully if you really want to achieve what the book is aim for.

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Summary: Good background
Review: Well, I don't know about "enlightenment", but reading this book will certainly straighten you out about the ideas and practices of Chinese healing, without any New Age "spin", thank you very much. Charles Luk was a very sincere person who felt a strong responsibility to pass on the things that he was sure about, after long years of health-restoring practice, and he leaves out the Chinese mythological mumbo-jumbo that obfuscates most of today's writings on these subjects.