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Awaken
Healing Light
of the Tao
Mantak Chia
Edited by:
Judith Stein
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Editor: Judith Stein
Contributing Writers: Chuck Soupios, Michael Winn,
Mackenzie Stewart, Valerie Meszaros
Illustrator: Juan Li
Cartoonist: Don Wilson
Cover Illustrator: Ivan Salgado
Graphics: Max Chia
Revised Design and Production: Saniem Chaisarn,
Siriporn Chaimongkol
Revised Editing: Jean Chilton
Copyright © 1993 Mantak and Maneewan Chia
Universal Tao Publications
274/1 Moo 7, Luang Nua,
Doi Saket, Chiang Mai, 50220 Thailand
Fax (66) (53) 495-853
Email: universaltao@universal-tao.com
ISBN: 0-935621-46-6
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:
Manufactured in Thailand
Ninth Printing, 2002
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or
reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the express
written permission from the author except for brief quotations
embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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Contents
Contents
Goal of this Book ..................................................................... ix
Words of Caution ..................................................................... x
About the Author ..................................................................... xi
Acknowledgements ................................................................... xv
Preface: What is the Tao of Cultivating Inner Light? ................. xvi
Chi and the Medicine ............................................................... xxii
Introduction: What is the Tao? .................................................. 1
Goals of the Universal Tao ................................................... 1
Universal Spiritual Independence ..................................... 1
Cultivating Body, Mind, and Spirit ..................................... 2
Three Bodies ........................................................................ 3
Healing the Physical Body: Becoming Like a Child
to Return to the Original Source ................................... 4
Developing the Energy Body ............................................. 6
Forming the Spirit Body .................................................... 7
Chapter 1
Overview of Taoist Inner Alchemy ...................................... 11
Foundations for Transformation: External
and Internal Alchemy ......................................................... 11
Wu Chi and the Universe: Religion and Science ................... 12
Wu Chi: Our Original Source ............................................ 15
Yin and Yang .................................................................... 16
Five Major Processes of Energy ....................................... 17
Influence of Stars and Light on our Inner Universe ............... 17
Three Main Sources of External Chi ..................................... 19
What Are the Three Forces? ............................................ 19
Three Forces Sustain All Life Forms ................................. 20
Vegetables, Animals, and Minerals: Our Secondary
Sources of the Universal Force ..................................... 20
Humans as Channels for the Universal and Earth Forces 22
Greater Heavenly Cycle and the Smaller Heavenly Cycle 24
Chapter 2
Chi .......................................................................................... 28
What is Chi? ......................................................................... 28
Chi in other Cultures ............................................................ 31
Western View of Chi ............................................................ 31
Chi and Self-Healing ............................................................ 34
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Contents
Two Types of Internal Chi: Hereditary and Acquired ............. 36
Original Chi in Humans ......................................................... 37
Original Chi: Our Source of Life-Force ............................. 37
Original Chi: The Body's Battery ....................................... 37
How to Increase and Restore the Original Chi ................... 43
Chi and Meditation ................................................................ 47
Inner Alchemy; Working with Emotions and Chi ................ 51
Developing the Power of the Mind ..................................... 52
Taoist Meditations: A Practical Approach .......................... 55
Chapter 3
Virtues ................................................................................... 56
Opening the Mind and the Heart .......................................... 56
Virtues: The Heart of the Healing Tao Practices .................... 57
Understanding Our Virtues ................................................ 59
Compassion: Combining the Virtues ................................ 59
Developing a Foundation for Higher Emotional States ...... 61
Born to Be Equal .............................................................. 61
Understanding the Energy of Love ....................................... 63
Inner Source of Love ......................................................... 66
Learning Self-Love ............................................................ 67
Unconditional Love Reflects Compassion ......................... 70
A System Based on Virtues: The Highest Chi ....................... 70
Transforming Negative Emotional Energies........................... 71
Problem of Dumping Emotional Garbage .......................... 72
Recycling Negative Emotional Energies ............................ 74
Enhancing Our Life-Force with Recycled Energy .............. 79
Taoist Ways to Transform Stress Into Vitality.......................... 80
Inner Smile ....................................................................... 80
Inner Smile Meditation ....................................................... 83
Six Healing Sounds ............................................................... 99
Chapter 4
Energetic Preparations for the Healing Light
Meditations ............................................................................ 101
Creating Bodily Awareness ................................................... 102
Getting Started ................................................................. 102
Opening and Expanding the Third Eye.............................. 102
Relaxing the Muscles of the Perineum............................... 104
Feeling Your Energetic Center .......................................... 109
Techniques for Enhancing the Sensation of Chi
in Meditation ..................................................................... 110
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