Originally Posted by RedOgre
I'm new here, and new to meditation in particular, but that won't stop me from asking.
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?
I also would not prefer to be referred to this site's supplementary courses, I came here for the meditation community, not to be preached to  |
Hi Red Ogre
I'll try to answer your question.
I have been practicing daoist techniques of meditation for about 15 years, and must say its abit hard to answer your question.
In Daoism there are a whole array of practices that can be called "daoist" and hundreds of meditations. Probably the most well known are the "sitting and forgetting" that are most similar to some Buddhist forms of sitting. In addition, there are alchemical meditations focusing on opening the different energetic cavities in the body, animal meditations, meditations to connect with the environment, the stars, the sun and moon. In addition, more modern daoist meditations focus on health and longevity.
I'd say what is unique about many daoist meditations are their inherent energetic aspect: the nature of chi (universal energy) is always directly or indirectly accessed or utilized with intent.
At its core, there is no real benifit to gain from most daoist meditations without the transmission that comes from the tradition to which the meditation belongs. Its like trying to get access to money in a cash machine without the pin code.
Hope this was of some help.
Anders
