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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Oriental religions
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The Tao
(Paperback)
Lao zi
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R251
R205
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- Reveals how the sexual practices of the White Tigress can
preserve and restore a woman's physical youthfulness and mental
energy.
- The first modern guide to White Tigress techniques, the only
sexual teachings exclusively for women.
- Reveals for the first time in English the hidden teachings of
immortaless Hsi Wang Mu, a White Tigress from 3,000 years ago.
- Provides Western medical correlations to substantiate White
Tigress practices.
White Tigress women undertake disciplined sexual and spiritual
practices to maintain their beauty and youthfulness, realize their
full feminine potential, and achieve immortality. Revealed here for
the first time in English are the secrets of the White Tigress that
have all but disappeared from the world. Under the guidance of
Madame Lin, the matriarch of a distinguished White Tigress lineage
still in existence in Taiwan, Hsi Lai was given the privilege to
study these practices and record them from a modern perspective so
they will be forever preserved.
The vast majority of Taoist texts on alchemy, meditation, and
sexuality are directed at male practitioners. "The Sexual Teachings
of the White Tigress" presents traditions that focus on women,
traditions that stem from a long line of courtesans and female
Taoists. Translations of the ancient teachings from a rare White
Tigress manual dating back 3,000 years explain the sexual and
spiritual refinement of "ching" (sexual energy), "chi "(vital
energy), and "shen" (consciousness)--the Three Treasures of
Taoism--the secret to unlocking eternal youthfulness and
immortality.
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The Taoist Body
(Paperback)
Kristofer Schipper; Translated by Karen C. Duval; Foreword by Norman Girardot
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R837
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The ancient system of thought known as Taoism remains today the
least well known of the world's great religions and one of the most
inaccessible aspects of Chinese culture. This is in large part
because Western thought clings to the notion of the separation of
matter and spirit, body and soul. Taoism refuses this dualism and
considers the body's perfection as essential as the soul's
redemption is to Christianity.
Kristofer Schipper's elegant and lucid introduction to the
traditions of Taoism and the masters who transmit them will reward
all those interested in China and in religions. The result of over
twenty-five years of research, including eight years of fieldwork
in China, Schipper's book retraces, step by step, the way that
leads from Chinese shamanism and traditional village life to the
physical Tending Life techniques, which in turn lead to the
mysticism of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu. Schipper shows the fundamental
unity underlying all aspects of Taoism as Taoism considers itself
to be. The social body--the community, the village, the
land--corresponds in all aspects to the physical body in Taoism. In
both of them the survival of humanity is decided here and now. "My
destiny is within me, not in Heaven!"
Building on the Lesser Kan and Li formulas for the development of
the soul body, this book provides illustrated descriptions of the
Greater Kan and Li formulas to create the immortal spirit body.
Used by Taoist masters for thousands of years, these exercises are
for advanced students of Taoist Inner Alchemy and mark the
beginning of the path to immortality. Master Mantak Chia and Andrew
Jan reveal how to use Taoist inner alchemy to harness the energies
of Sun, Moon, Earth, North Star, and Big Dipper and transform them
to feed the soul body and begin development of the immortal spirit
body. They explain how to reverse yin and yang power through
energetic work at the solar plexus, thereby activating the
liberation of transformed sexual energy. They explore how to open
the heart center and how to connect astral energy with the energies
of animals, children, and plants to grow the immortal fetus, or
spirit body. The authors provide warm-up exercises, including the
Inner Smile and Fusion practices, and outline a complete daily Kan
and Li routine for mental and physical health, longevity, astral
flight, and realization of the Wu Wei state.
It is widely claimed that notions of gods and religious beliefs are
irrelevant or inconsequential to early Chinese ("Confucian") moral
and political thought. Rejecting the claim that religious practice
plays a minimal philosophical role, Kelly James Clark and Justin
Winslett offer a textual study that maps the religious terrain of
early Chinese texts. They analyze the pantheon of extrahumans, from
high gods to ancestor spirits, discussing their various
representations, as well as examining conceptions of the afterlife
and religious ritual. Demonstrating that religious beliefs in early
China are both textually endorsed and ritually embodied, this book
goes on to show how gods, ancestors and afterlife are
philosophically salient. The summative chapter on the role of
religious ritual in moral formation shows how religion forms a
complex philosophical system capable of informing moral, social,
and political conditions.
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