Concept
Taoist meditation
Overview
Taoist meditation (, ), also spelled Daoist (), refers to the traditional meditative practices associated with the Chinese philosophy and religion of Taoism, including concentration, mindfulness, contemplation, and visualization. The earliest Chinese references to meditation date from the Warring States period (475–221 BCE).
Traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese martial arts have adapted certain Daoist meditative techniques. Some examples are Daoyin "guide and pull" breathing exercises, Neidan "internal alchemy" techniques, Neigong "internal skill" practices, Qigong breathing exercises, Zhan zhuang "standing like a post" techniques. The opposite direction of adoption has also taken place, when the martial art of Taijiquan, "great ultimate fist", became one of the practices of modern Daoist monks, while historically it was not among traditional techniques.
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(The Tao) produces (all things) and nourishes them; it produces them and does not claim them as its own; it does all, and yet does not boast of it; it presides over all, and yet does not control them. This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao).
Laozi, The Tao Teh King
States what Taoist meditation is; the author is tied to Taoist meditation in the knowledge graph.
Thou meetest him and seest not his head; thou goest behind him and seest not his back.” These contradictory expressions are called the “chain of reason.” One naturally thinks in quoting these passages of יהרה and of the African kingly name of Juba and also of _Jovis_.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Taoist meditation is.
17. In general, every one should meditate seriously with himself, and have the concurrence of other men’s opinions with his own, that it is not the longest life which is the best, but that which is the most virtuous. For that musician is not to be commended who plays upon variety of instruments, nor that orator that makes multiplicity of speeches, nor the pilot that conducts many ships, but he of each faculty that…
Plutarch, Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1
States what Taoist meditation is.
Related ideas
- Xuanxue
- Jixia Academy
- Two truths doctrine
- Six Dynasties
- Hagiography
- Zazen
- Buddhist meditation
- Zhuangzi (book)
- Yuan dynasty
- Warring States period
- Xuanzang
- Ge Hong
- Qi
- Lingbao School
- Qing dynasty
- I Ching
- Sanskrit
- Hundred Schools of Thought
- Dhyana in Buddhism
- Wang Bi
- Taoism
- Quanzhen School
- Mawangdui Silk Texts
- Huang–Lao
Place in the tradition
Part of Taoism.