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Title: Awaken Healing Light of the Tao by Mantak Chia, Maneewan Chia, Master Mantak ISBN: 0-935621-46-6 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.96 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Comprehensive Microcosmic Orbit Instruction
Comment: I just read this book. It took me about a year to do so and
to get a good sense practicing what it preaches. As with many of us, I seek not Enlightenment (yet), I seek to understand qigong. What is qi? Specifically. As a Western scientist, I want to know what qi is/does. Is it physiologic? Is it truly spiritual? Psychological? A mixture? What I do know is that it is not something that someone can teach, or prove/disprove. Once I find the answer, I can have that answer only for myself.
That being said, this book by Mantak Chia is an extremely long, comprehensive, step-by-step guidebook on establishing the Microcosmic Orbit through a series of meditation practices ranging from the beginning to the advanced. Some reviewers are arguing that it is right/wrong, that imagery is right/wrong (let me guess, you're from the Kumar Frantzis camp, right?)-- well I'm here to tell you that I'm simply looking for what works. I don't care about right/wrong. Does it work for me? Chia goes on to explain that eventually, you can dispense with such ancillary tools as focusing on the breath, or imagery, or others, but in the beginning, they help facilitate mastery.
This was a great book. A nice roadmap of things to try. I've been trying now for awhile, and I believe I am feeling my microcosmic orbit, the energies that Chia describes from the earth and cosmic forces. I have even begun experiencing, ironically, what seems very much like the "mindstream" described by BK Frantzis in his Water Meditation Books (which I have also reviewed), by using some of Chia's techniques. Ironical, eh?
So far, I have gathered together an eclectic sequence that WORKS FOR ME. This is a great source of information for meditation techniques. I have adapted some from Frantzis, as well as from translations from Cleary and others. On top of formal instruction in regular classwork.
I doubt I'll use it all, but for any of you out there looking for at least one roadmap, this is a good one, IMO. I think there are many paths to this journey. This is one path. I will probably walk many paths before espousing a route of my own...
Rating: 1
Summary: sidetrack
Comment: For those who study the Great Way this book is of no use; however, if you like to train your imagination then, have at it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Advanced Chi Training for Balancing Yin & Yang Energy
Comment: AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT is written by Mantak Chia, founder and director of the Universal Tao Center. Chia has devoted his life to studying meditation, tai chi chuan, aikido, yoga, kundalini, and many forms of inner alchemy. Chia's books are intended to be supplemental guides to energy training, and are primarily intended for readers who are familiar with energy work. The focus in this book is primarily on inner yin and yang breath work (nei kung), rather than outer breath work such as chi kung -- although some of these techniques are described in detail in this book as well. AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT is one of an estimated 35 books that Chia intends to write in order to fully cover the Universal Tao system (Chia has completed more than 20 of these books already).
I am very pleased to see how Chia explains the founding principles of his Universal Tao system: "The system I learned from my master is based on the positive energies of love, kindness, gentleness, respect, and honesty; this is the highest Chi Kung practice. With these energies an adept can counteract all kinds of evil. It is said that even fire cannot hurt one who has perfected their use."
At more than 550 pages, AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT is a veritable encyclopedia of information. It's the kind of book I like to read cover-to-cover and then return to as a reference book for refreshers on various aspects. This book is organized into sixteen information-packed chapters which describe: an overview of Taoist inner alchemy, the connection between chi and meditation, how to transform negative emotional energies, techniques for activating and amplifying original chi, points along the microcosmic orbit (a circular path for circulating chi in the body), the microcosmic orbit, how to work with Earth energy, how to work with Cosmic (higher self) energy, how to open the heart and practice the Cosmic inner smile, and much, much more.
Chia includes numerous illustrations to thoroughly clarify how to work with yin and yang energy. I highly recommend AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT to anyone who is seriously interested in improving the energy flow in their body for improved mental and physical health and well-being and wants precise, detailed information on mastering the flow of yin and yang energy in the body.
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Title: Awaken Healing Energy Through Tao by Mantak Chia, Mantak Chia ISBN: 0943358078 Publisher: Aurora Press Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy by Mantak Chia, Michael Winn ISBN: 0943358191 Publisher: Aurora Press Pub. Date: September, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Fusion of the Five Elements I: Basic and Advanced Meditations for Transforming Negative Emotions by Mantak Chia, Maneewan Chia ISBN: 0935621180 Publisher: Healing Tao Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Taoist Yoga and Sexual Energy; Internal Alchemy and Chi Kung by Eric Steven Yudelove, Mantak Chia ISBN: 1567188346 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Chi Self-Massage: The Taoist Way of Rejuvenation by Mantak Chia, Juan Li ISBN: 0935621016 Publisher: Healing Tao Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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