How to start Taoist practice?

Taoism is the most special kind of people in the history of China. It is also the most special kind of people in the history of the world. They are special because they have the most incredible pursuit of life. What is the pursuit of Taoism? I'm telling you, it's immortality People are bound to die. The pursuit of immortality is really a challenge to the natural laws that govern all mankind. Therefore, Taoism in China is the strangest and wildest kind of people on this earth since the appearance of human beings. Taoist figures who pursue immortality all their lives have a saying, "Live with the sun and the moon". It means to practice your life as long as the sun and the moon. When the sun and the moon no longer exist, you die. You see, this is what spirit. Taoism is not limited to just saying mouth addiction. In the long years of thousands of years, with their own flesh and blood, through continuous practice, they summed up some very, very valuable health preservation techniques. These health treasures handed down from generation to generation still have great value and significance today. It is a pity that people nowadays are too greedy to pursue material desires, and even too eager to pursue foreign cultures, so that they turn a blind eye to such mysterious and strange treasures in our traditional culture. The cultivation of Taoism in ancient China is complicated and subtle. Due to the limitation of space, I would like to introduce some Taoist magic with strong practical value to readers today. Nourishing spirit and refining qi: Nourishing spirit can also be called keeping thoughts, thinking, meditation and so on. Huang Ting Jing, a Taoist book circulated in the world during the Wei and Jin Dynasties in China, talks about nourishing the heart and meditation. Taoist immortal alchemy developed to Wei and Jin dynasties, and cultivation began to transition from refining shape and gas to refining spirit. The ancients said: "If you have it, you will be my God;": I just miss me. " In fact, the so-called yoga that is popular all over the world now is mainly to practice meditation and meditation. If we want to trace back to the source, this practice really originated from the Taoist immortal magic in ancient China. In China, since the introduction of Buddhism, a popular mantra has been born: "Monks in the distance love to recite scriptures." Anything can be popular as long as it is covered with a foreign name. However, the local culture handed down by our country for thousands of years has been completely abandoned or simply turned a blind eye. In fact, as long as we look at all kinds of health-preserving techniques that have swept the world in recent years, we can understand that if we want to trace their origins seriously, which health-preserving method can escape the influence of Chinese medicine theory and Taoist practice? (Chinese medicine also comes from Taoism. ) The key point of keeping god (thinking or meditation) is to gather one's own gods in one place, for example, Taoism gathers them in the upper, middle and lower abdomen. The so-called upper abdomen is about three inches inward from the center of Tang Yin between the eyebrows. This place, also known as the Mud Pill Palace. Also known as the pineal gland. Sedentary, you can stay here, stay here, and you can get magical results. As for Zhongtian and Xiadantian, due to space reasons, I will not elaborate here for the time being. But be careful not to be too persistent in everything. I have seen many people obsessed with the abdomen for a long time during meditation, and as a result, they are mentally lost because of hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. In fact, even hallucinations and auditory hallucinations are natural phenomena in the process of refining God. As long as you don't cling to its illusion, you can also rise to a higher level. This is the truth that practitioners often say, "Seeing the devil over the devil and seeing the Buddha over the Buddha". A series of reactions and countermeasures about meditation and refining god will be explained in detail in the future. In a word, if used properly, meditation is of great benefit to people's spiritual recuperation. Guiding Qi: There is an article "Lingjianzi" written by Xu Zhenjun in the orthodox Taoist collection in the Ming Dynasty. In this paper, the author combines the heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney in the five zang-organs with the four seasons, and combines qi-guiding with qi-circulating, forming a set of quite strange guiding methods. This method has strong practical value and its wording is also very philosophical. In the article "Ling Jianzi, Conquer Three", there is such a passage: "People who follow the shape are also angry; The cause of qi is shape. Form and qi are transformed into form and spirit, and both are replaced by gods, resulting in five zang. Qi is the mother and blood is the son; Blood is the mother, essence is the child; Essence is the mother, and God is the son; God is the mother and the shape is the son. There is no lifeless self-shaping. Qi has its shape, but it is the soul ... "This is great. The author expresses qi, blood, essence, spirit, form and soul in extremely concise and concentrated language. The ancients did this to words, and every word was well written. The Taoist classic "Huang Ting Jing" said: "Immortals and Taoists must have immortals, and accumulation can come true." In short, it is the real enlightenment. So, how to cultivate success? Taoism has a set of methods to guide the movement of qi, such as nourishing the heart (note: the word "dirty" is not used here), storing the liver, spleen, lung and kidney. Due to space reasons, it is omitted here. There are countless books about the art of guiding qi in ancient Taoism in China, which will be discussed in detail later. In the Ming Dynasty in China, a great scholar named Gao Lian wrote a masterpiece "Eight Records of Respect for Sound". This is one of the eight famous health-preserving books, which are as famous as Compendium of Materia Medica, Huangdi Neijing and Shoushi Baoyuan. Therefore, Gao Lian is also a health care provider. For many years before his death, he always regarded Taoist elixir as a treasure, thinking that only by getting a panacea can he become immortal. Later, he collected many wonderful methods from the Taoist scriptures. Most of this "Eight Records of Respect for Life" is a masterpiece of Taoist longevity cultivation methods. Bao Tong is writing this article.