The Way of Taoist Health Preservation

Author: Ren Xiujin
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Publish Date: 2005-12-19
Features: Life is the most precious treasure of humanity. Cherishing life should include two aspects: maintaining the health of life and extending the time of life. This is precisely the purpose and goal of Taoist health preservation cultivation. [Taoism seeks longevity, but it does not believe in the immortality of the spirit; rather, it advocates the longevity of the physical body. It also does not consider longevity as one of the solutions to life's problems, but as the only solution.] For this very reason, health preservation techniques have an inseparable bond with the Xianren School of the Pre-Qin period and later Taoism, evolving into a profound and comprehensive ancient human science and physical fitness system rich in high health and disease-healing value as this religious system developed and transformed. This book, with the aim of excavating the essence of Taoist health preservation for the purpose of promoting health and longevity, has compiled some classic works of Taoist health preservation. It begins with introductory techniques in the book Learn to Become Immortal and gradually delves into the discussion of internal alchemy cultivation methods, primarily focusing on the health preservation cultivation methods of the Zhang Sanfeng lineage. Women can, after mastering the introductory techniques, practice health preservation cultivation according to the methods described in the Poem on the Sequence of Internal Alchemy for Women by Sun Erni. Life is the most precious treasure of humanity. Cherishing life should include two aspects: maintaining the health of life and extending the time of life. This is precisely the purpose and goal of Taoist health preservation cultivation. [Taoism seeks longevity, but it does not believe in the immortality of the spirit; rather, it advocates the longevity of the physical body. It also does not consider longevity as one of the solutions to life's problems, but as the only solution.] For this very reason, health preservation techniques have an inseparable bond with the Xianren School of the Pre-Qin period and later Taoism, evolving into a profound and comprehensive ancient human science and physical fitness system rich in high health and disease-healing value as this religious system developed and transformed. This book, with the aim of excavating the essence of Taoist health preservation for the purpose of promoting health and longevity, has compiled some classic works of Taoist health preservation. It begins with introductory techniques in the book Learn to Become Immortal and gradually delves into the discussion of internal alchemy cultivation methods, primarily focusing on the health preservation cultivation methods of the Zhang Sanfeng lineage. Women can, after mastering the introductory techniques, practice health preservation cultivation according to the methods described in the Poem on the Sequence of Internal Alchemy for Women by Sun Erni.