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Ancient practices for modern lives—the perfect taste of Taoism
Begin your journey toward spiritual exploration and deepen your connection with the earth. Taoism for Beginners is your easy-to-understand guide to a rich, spiritual Chinese religion and a new holistic perspective.
Discover the core principles and traditions of Taoism with straightforward language and simple exercises you can do anywhere. Adopting aspects of Taoism into your everyday life can bring you into peace and harmony with yourself and the world around you—a practice that’s more vital than ever in our busy modern-day lives.
Taoism for Beginners helps you:
Feel better and feel more—Build your own Taoist practice that can help you relax, de-stress, and feel more at ease in your life. Learn history and tradition—Meet Taoism’s founder, Lao Tzu, and learn the basic history of Taoism practice for the past 2500 years. This book and beyond—Deepen your practice (if you wish) with included resources for further reading and study.
Explore the depth and breadth of Taoism in a clear format that you can apply to everything you do.
From the Publisher
A few of the exercises you can do anytime to bring Taoism into your life:
One of the best ways to cultivate wu-wei is through the practice of aimless wandering.
Set aside 15 to 20 minutes (or longer if you’d like). Turn off your phone and all other devices. Go to a relatively quiet place that includes some natural beauty: a park, a garden, a courtyard, a forest meadow, or your own backyard. Now, without any plan or premeditated destination, simply begin wandering. Let yourself be drawn naturally from place to place, guided by your interest in the moment or your intuition. Let yourself walk for the simple pleasure of walking rather than as a means to a destination.
One of Taoism’s essential insights is that the microcosm of our human body-mind is a mirror image of the macrocosm of the entire cosmos.
Sit quietly, breathe, and appreciate the fact that your body’s existence depends on drawing air in from the external environment and releasing air back into the environment. Reflect on the fact that your body also depends on the water that you drink and the plants and animals that you ingest as food.The elements comprising your body are the very same elements that comprise rivers and mountains, trees and clouds and galaxies. Appreciate this deeply as you move through your day.
This simple exercise will support you in accessing vibrant, fertile emptiness.
Whenever you’d like, make a conscious decision to notice the space between objects more than the objects themselves. Let the objects shift to the background and tune in to the space instead. Notice how this transforms your experience. Then, try the same thing with the internal “objects” of your thoughts. Can you tune in to the silent gaps between the words, phrases, and sentences comprising your mind’s internal chatter?
ASIN : B0875Y7CVZ
Publisher : Rockridge Press (May 5, 2020)
Publication date : May 5, 2020
Language : English
File size : 734 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Print length : 124 pages
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