Originally Posted by RedOgre
While learning about meditation, I've had to brush to the side Buddhist and Hindu meditation namely because I don't agree with their backgrounds, and using the meditation without agreeing with the concepts that conceived of the meditation just feels wrong.
I do agree with Taoism in most aspects, and feel that I could utilize that style of meditation, but I have no resources on how it's done. The scattered websites I've visited are not very helpful at all, with vague instruction and terms I'm not familiar with frequent.
So, this is my question: Does anyone here have any sort of resources for Taoist-style meditation?
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Just to clear things up a little, you are aware of Qigong? Like Taoism itself, it is rather fluid, and cover the whole spectrum from what we in the west call yoga to meditation. Some practices are more physical, others more mental, as the concept roughly translates as "cultivating energy" which could be on several different planes. Indeed, Taoism tends to view energies as interrelated, so that physical energy can be converted into mental, and mental into spiritual - or the other way around, presumably - but of course not on the same scale, since they are not equivalent in effect.
So - if you have not looked at Qigong, that is probably what you are looking for. It is integrated with Taoism kind of like Yoga was with Hinduism until fairly recently. Unfortunately that means there is not a lot of native Western literature on it yet.
