Relaxing Into Your Being, Volume One of The Water Method of Taoist Meditation Series, is the first book that explains the essence and practical techniques of the Water Method of Taoist Meditation, originally alluded to by Lao Tse in the Tao Te Ching, 2500 years ago. The author is a long-time student of Taoism who studied in China for ten years. He is a lineage holder of the Water Method school of Taoism, under the teacher Liu Hung Chieh and has been studying meditation, internal martial arts and qigong for four decades.

Each volume is filled with breathing exercises and stories about the author's teacher, as well as the author's own experiences. The author obviously has studied intensely for many years and brings that experience and knowledge to bear on its subject.

The Great Stillness, Volume Two, presents moving meditation practices, sitting and lying down meditation practices, the inner dissolving process as well as how to dissolve blockages in your physical, qi and emotional bodies. Another extremely interesting section is on Taoist sexual meditation with both techniques and good explanations of the energetic aspects of Taoist sexual cultivation. The last chapter is on internal alchemy, another fascinating and important aspect of Taoist self-cultivation.

This is an important work. Taoism is a very old and vast compendium of teachings and practices. Students can choose from a wide variety of teachings, some of which are only now coming to the West. As more long-time practitioners of Taoism begin to share their knowledge and experiences with Western students we will all benefit.

Book Description

This first volume of The Water Method of Taoist Meditation Series explains the essence and practical techniques originally alluded to by Lao Tse in the Tao Te Ching, 2500 years ago. This knowledge has been passed down from teacher to disciple in an unbroken lineage to Taoist sage Liu Hung Chieh and the author. These teachings help us rediscover deeper levels of our inner being and are especially relevant in today's fast-paced, overstressed computer age. The energy practices revealed here are a fundamental part of this knowledge. These tools will show you the way to soften and release stress, maintain good health, calm your mind, heal disease, dissolve your obstacles to inner peace and directly experience Universal Consciousness.

From the Publisher

Bruce Kumar Frantzis has studied meditation, internal martial arts and chi gung for four decades, including five years in Japan and India and more than ten years in China. After two decades of intensive study in the Zen, Yoga, Kundalini and Taoist Fire traditions, B. K. Frantzis met Liu Hung Chieh, one of this century's greatest Taoist masters, in Mainland China. Although Liu had stopped teaching several years prior, he had just had two dreams about this American arriving at his doorstep to study with him. This led to Liu's decision to pass on the knowledge of his lineage to the author. B. K. Frantzis teaches chi gung, internal martial arts and Taoist meditation worldwide.

From the Author

This book presents an age-old system for resolving the essential spiritual difficulties of human life, including those that might seem to be unique to our modern computer age. From the Taoist perspective, our age's spiritual dissonance is a result of a profound disconnection between our bodies, hearts, and souls. The Taoist solution is to reconnect and integrate ourselves, both internally and with our environment.

Excerpted from Relaxing Into Your Being

Who am I? What does it mean to be human and fully alive? What is my relationship to the vastness of eternity? How can I find inner comfort in the stressful, swirling circumstances of life? How can I reconcile the physical needs of having a body with being spiritual? Using meditation, Taoists have sought useful and heartfelt answers to these kinds of primal questions for over five thousand years. The living tradition of Taoist meditation has sought from its inception to balance the realities of the human condition-that is, our having to live with a temporary physical body while simultaneously establishing contact with a permanent, personally experienced spiritual center.

 Originally printed in The Empty Vessel, A Journal of Contemporary Taoism, Summer 1999

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