Internal Elixir Cultivation: The Nature of Daoist Meditation by Robert Coons

Author:Robert Coons [Coons, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Tambuli Media
Published: 2015-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

“Consider how empty and full exist in each other, difficulty and ease change into each other, long and short are elements of each other, top and bottom rest on each other, sound and noise blend together, back and front chase each other.”

This is the basic Daoist idea of how yin and yang work in the world. Everything that is yang is supported by yin, and everything that is yin is brought to life by yang. This has the ultimate result of yin and yang being the manifestation which all sentient beings may observe as the movement and change of nature.

By now, it should be evident that the majority of practices in this book are about how to properly balance yin and yang in meditation in order to make the energy of the body more abundant and the mind more peaceful.

Daoism as a practice is fundamentally rooted in creating something from nothing – or more exactly, the focus on the soft and feminine in order to create the strong and dynamic.

Daoism views the ultimate outcome of concentration on the yin aspect of our being as being the birth and growth of the dynamic yang nature which we are trying to become.

This is not to say that yin means non-existence or that yang means a full abundance of life.

Although we were not fully sentient in the womb, we still existed and fed on the yin energy of our mothers. Just as we did that, we also grew and developed, which is the exact analogy that Daoists use to describe the process of elixir meditation. Simply by calming ourselves and allowing non-action, we allow ourselves to gain energy and eventually become much more active than we previously imagined possible.

This is the true movement of yin and yang in Daoism.

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