Full Description
In 1983, Mantak Chia introduced the "Microcosmic Orbit" to the West. Prior to that time, most of the Eastern energy practices transmitted to the West were incomplete, dealing only with the ascending yang/masculine channel, which shoots life-force energy up the spine. The Microcosmic Orbit showed practitioners how to establish the descending yin/feminine channel of the life-force energy loop. Within Taoist systems, cultivating feminine energy has always been seen as the key to gaining balance and wholeness. Healing Light of the Taopresents the more advanced methods of chi cultivation in the Microcosmic Orbit, offering a full understanding of Taoist spiritual theory through its comprehensive overview of the complete Taoist body/mind/spirit system. The book also includes more advanced meditation methods for absorbing the higher frequencies of Earth Force, Cosmic Force, and Universal Force (Heavenly chi) into the basic orbit. It establishes a spiritual science that not only emphasizes practical benefits to health, sexual vitality, and emotional balance, but also shows how changes made in the energy body can lead to physical rejuvenation that the Taoists called immortality.
Contents
Foreword: Cultivating Inner Light by Michael Winn
Foreword: Chi and Medicine by Lawrence Young, M.D.
Acknowledgments
Putting the Healing Light of the Tao into Practice
Introduction: What Is the Tao?
1 • An Overview of Taoist Inner Alchemy
2 • Chi
3 • Virtues
4 • Energetic Preparations for the Healing Light Meditations
5 • The Points of the Microcosmic Orbit
6 • Opening the Basic Microcosmic Orbit
7 • Earth Energy and the Microcosmic Orbit
8 • Cosmic Force: Higher Self Energy and the Microcosmic Orbit
9 • Opening Your Heart: Shen and the Microcosmic Orbit
10 • Sexual Energy and the Microcosmic Orbit
11 • Heavenly Chi and the Microcosmic Orbit
12 • Summary of the Microcosmic Orbit Practice
13 • The Macrocosmic Orbit and the Five Pulses
14 • Oneness with the Tao: A Daily Practice Guide
15 • Troubleshooting Guide:Helpful Hints and Home Remedies
16 • The Tao of Healing and Health Maintenance
Appendix: Spinal Cord Breathing
Bibliography
About the Author
The Universal Tao System and Training Center
Index
