There are many forms of meditation in the world. Bruce is specifically a lineage holder in the Water Method tradition of Taoist meditation derived from the teachings of Lao Tse.

The Water Method: Letting Go

The water practices emphasize letting go and not using excessive will. To employ all of your effort and yet not use force—so that you avoid contravening the actual limits of the body, the mind, and the spirit—is the gentle way of Lao Tse, one of Taoism’s greatest sages.

Chi Gung and Longevity Breathing are Foundations

In the Taoist meditation tradition, typically students studied chi gung, longevity breathing, tai chi and other Taoist energy programs first to generate health, calmness and a stable, peaceful mind. These practices prepared you for the more challenging work of Taoist meditation.

Inner Dissolving Helps You Reach Your Spiritual Potential

The water method of Taoist meditation continues the process of releasing your inner conflicts that you began with the outer dissolving process learned in Opening the Energy Gates. You will progress to learning an inner dissolving process, a key part of Lao Tse's tradition, which helps you completely release the remaining small and large conditionings, tensions and blockages that bind and prevent you from reaching your full spiritual potential.

Stages in Meditation

The first goal of inner dissolving is to help you take spiritual responsibility for yourself and become a relaxed, spontaneous and fully mature and open human being. Next, you will progress to more profound inner dissolving techniques which help you reach inner stillness.This is a place deep inside you that is absolutely permanent and stable, the center of the I Ching which does not change or waiver, whether you are quietly sitting or doing fifty things at once.Finally, the foundation of inner stillness prepares you to learn to transform the body, mind and spirit through internal alchemy.

The Tao

A later goal of Taoist meditation is to directly connect with your soul and the deepest recesses of your being and make you aware of the permanent, unchanging center — the place of spirit and emptiness where you can truly answer the essential spiritual question, "Who am I?" The final goal is to evolve to the place of being one with the Tao, which is beyond the ability of words to convey.

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The foundation of inner stillness prepares you to learn to transform the body,
mind and spirit through internal alchemy.