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Daily Practice in Taoist Cultivation
Yesterday I mentioned that Daoist practitioners must first "break free from superstition." A friend pushed back: if a disciple doesn't even believe in their master, how can they possibly summon the determination to learn the master's tea...
ReadDaoist Dragon Gate Sect: Seated Practice for Longevity and Agelessness
This is a complete system of practices—done a little each day and repeated regularly, they keep qi and blood flowing briskly throughout the body, prevent physical aging, and let you live out your full lifespan in good health. The system ...
ReadThe Southern Daoist Lineage's Secret of Restoring the Cosmic Source and Rejuvenation
The Qiankun Fanyuan Huichun Secret (Returning to the Source and Rejuvenating through Heaven and Earth) is a set of male cultivation methods secretly transmitted within our lineage. The practice is simple yet profoundly effective: after a...
ReadPractices of Male Sexual Cultivation for Attaining the No-Leak State
The entire history of traditional cultivation is almost the history of male cultivation. The major traditions and schools of practice have all been built primarily upon the rise and fall of male cultivation experience, and this is especi...
ReadGuidance on Alchemical Cultivation: Once the Master's True Oral Teachings Were Received, the Way Holds No Other Pursuit Than Stillness of Spirit in Quiet Illumination
The Fifth Patriarch of the Southern School, the Perfected Bai Yuchan, said: "Long ago I received my master's true oral transmission, and it taught me nothing more than to concentrate the spirit into the qi cavity." This lays bare the hea...
ReadThe Practice and Enlightenment of Guanyin Bodhisattva
Shen Jiazhen, lay Buddhist practitioner
ReadVenerable Gangxiao: The Threefold Measure Doctrine in the *Zongjing Lu*
Buddhist epistemology speaks of three measures. In common usage, these are direct perception (xiànliàng), inferential reasoning (bǐliàng), and sacred teaching (shèngyánliàng). The sacred teaching measure goes by several other names as we...
ReadA Brief Explanation of the Universal Gate Chapter of Guanyin Bodhisattva
Of all bodhisattvas, Guanyin has the deepest karmic connection with the people of our land. That's why so many households here enshrine her image. In Taiwan especially, nearly every family that offers incense and worship has a portrait o...
ReadNotes on Reading Master Yinguang's Writings
Venerable Master Huixing
ReadLectures on the Universal Gateway of Guanyin Bodhisattva by Master Xiandun
Venerable Xian Dun
ReadLecture Notes on the Universal Gateway Chapter of Guanyin Bodhisattva
Venerable Master Yanpei
ReadWalking as Cultivation: The Natural Breath-Switching Method (A Secret Technique of Heaven-Human Unity)
The "Natural Breath-Swapping Method" is said to have been created by [Lü Dongbin](/ddjy_101/227.html) while wandering the Zhongnan Mountains. Practitioners hold a posture of relaxed, calm, and natural ease, with the 意念 (mind-intention) o...
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