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Most people think that the main purpose of meditation is just to reduce stress, reduce high blood pressure, slow down the aging process, get better grades in school, close a bigger business deal, win a fight competition, recover from a broken love or some other "me" self-centered accomplishment. These are some really excellent potential side effects, but the real purpose of meditation practice is for deeper spiritual understanding and personal evolution. An oppurtunity to better understand one's life purpose and dissolving the ego's fear of change. |
Taoist Meditation emphasizes a return to naturalness, balance and avoidance of extremes. The simple breathing techniques resemble that of young children whom primarily breathe from their bellies. The primary mental goal is to reduce complicated thinking, in order to return back to the innocence of a newborn infant, thus making the body lighter. |
For thousands of years Taoist ("mystic scientist" who follow the Natural Way and Truth of the Universe) have explored the inner landscapes of the human mind. Through their centuries of observations of natural phenomena, self-examination through quiet contemplation and deep stillness, they were able to use their highly developed intuition to also further explore their outer universe. These explorations into the mind's inner and outer realms led to the discovery of energy channels inside the human body and helped create the energy science of Qigong, which further evolved into the extremely comprehensive healing arts of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. Taoist recognized long ago that everything boils down to the quality of one's Qi or Chi (breath/bioelectric energy) for true health and spiritual attainment. If you don't have healthy amounts of energy on a consistent basis, meaning that your energy should not be too strong or too weak, you can greatly expose yourself to illness and misfortune because of a sluggish immune system and mind. These conditions, if left uncorrected results in a weakened body, further weakening one's spiritual resolve and making one highly susceptible to psychic problems and physical addictions of all kinds. Besides the obvious of having a poor diet and unnatural lifestyle habits, the biggest culprits for causing the body to lose precious amounts of Chi/energy are the abuse of one's emotions and too much thinking. Too much or too little happiness, sadness, worry, anger, fear, jealousy, envy, greed, etc, will result in a major drop of power in one’s body. Genuine spiritual training takes lots of energy, so the body should first be healthy and balanced. People who prematurely play with or experiment with spiritual/natural forces just for entertainment, or are spiritually greedy and hunger for too much power too quickly, will suffer greatly and possibly irreversible damage their bodies. For the above reasons, Taoist meditation techniques focus on simplicity, naturalness, evenness, patience and emotional balance first and foremost. These methods of spiritual self-development avoid extreme or bizarre practices that involve complicated/abstract thinking and or rigid beliefs systems.
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