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| Introduction | |
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| The Taoist Emphasis on Health and Longevity | |
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| Meditation for Healers | |
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| Meditation for High Performance in Martial Arts and Sports | |
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| Decision Making and Intuition | |
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| Death and Dying | |
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| Meditation for Realizing Universal Consciousness | |
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| Meditation as Experiential Knowledge: The Cornerstone of Inner Learning | |
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| Making Your Body Conscious | |
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| Feeling versus Visualization | |
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| The Way of Liu: Reconnecting with Your Internal Environment | |
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| Why Does Taoism Focus So Much More on the Human Body than Many Other Spiritual Traditions? | |
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| Focus on a Special Topic: The Taoist View of Reincarnation | |
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| The Difference between Using the Body to Liberate Consciousness and Wanting to Feel Good | |
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| Making the Body Conscious as the Gateway to Universal Consciousness | |
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| The Role of the Central Nervous System | |
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| Peak Experiences, Consciousness, and the Central Nervous System | |
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| Focus on Practice: Taoist Internal Breathing | |
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| Moving Meditation Practices | |
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| The I Ching's Method of Moving Meditation: Circle Walking | |
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| Methods of Stepping | |
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| Walking in a Straight Line | |
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| Walking in a Circle | |
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| Changing the Direction of the Circle | |
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| Finishing the Meditation | |
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| Focus on a Special Topic: Ba Gua Spontaneous Movement | |
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| Sitting and Lying-Down Meditation Practices | |
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| The Sitting Practices | |
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| Body Alignments for All Taoist Sitting Practices | |
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| The Way of Liu: Thoughts on Sitting Positions for Meditation | |
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| Taoist Sitting Meditation: Using the Breath, Vibration, and Ultimately the Mind to Awaken Internal Sensations | |
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| The Lying-Down Practices | |
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| The Inner Dissolving Process | |
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| The Outer Dissolving Process and the Inner Dissolving Process Compared | |
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| The Relationship between Mind and Blockage | |
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| How to Dissolve Inwardly | |
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| Focus on a Special Topic: How to Dissolve Downward | |
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| Experiences Often Encountered while Resolving the Successive Layers of a Blockage | |
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| What Might Happen along the Way | |
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| Outer and Inner Dissolving Compared for Ease of Practice | |
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| The End Result of the Dissolving Process | |
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| Whole Mind Concentration and Distraction | |
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| Dissolving Blockages in Your Physical, Chi, and Emotional Bodies | |
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| Dissolving Blockages in Your Physical Body | |
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| Dissolving Blockages in Your Chi Body | |
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| Dissolving Blockages in Your Emotional Body | |
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| Three Methods for Releasing the Emotions | |
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| The Emotional Dissolving Technique and Its Implications for Astrology | |
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| Focus on a Special Topic: Dissolving Shock | |
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| Emotions and Emptiness | |
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| Taking Personal Responsibility for Doing Meditation | |
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| How to Prevent Problems Arising from Meditation | |
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| What Is Taoist Sexual Meditation? | |
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| Focus on a Special Topic: How This Material Was Learned | |
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| Energetic Intimacy Is Not Based on Length of Relationship | |
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| Why the Taoist Practices Must Be Successively Learned One by One | |
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| Sexual Chi Gung | |
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| Focus on Practice: Finger Rolling | |
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| Focus on Practice: Using Tofu to Develop Hand Sensitivity | |
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| The Nature of Yin and Yang Energy | |
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| Focus on Practice: Transferring Sexual Energy around Your Body | |
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| Taoist Sexual Meditation Techniques | |
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| Shifting the Yang Fire of the Eyes | |
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| Physical Foreplay | |
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| Focus on Practice: Tongue Strengthening for Kissing and Oral Sex | |
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| The Problem of Sex, Nerves, and Stress: Taoist Remedies | |
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| Partner Dissolving Exercises | |
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| Focus on Practice: Meditative Partner Techniques to Reawaken Tired Sexual Nerves | |
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| Spiritual Practice Is Different from Entertainment | |
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| The Complete Package Includes Both the Wonderful and the Frightening | |
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| Advanced Taoist Sexual Meditation | |
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| The Way of Liu: The Master Liu Hung Chieh and Sex | |
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| Internal Alchemy | |
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| What Is Alchemy? | |
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| Alchemy and Emotions | |
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| Three Tools of Internal Alchemy: Dissolving, Visualization, and Sound Work | |
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| Internal Alchemy and the Recognition of Universal Consciousness | |
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| Stillness and Internal Alchemy | |
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| The Way of Liu: My First Day of Meditation: Does Meditation Change after You Are Enlightened? | |
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| Epilogue: Back to Balance | |
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| Sitting in a Chair for Meditation | |
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| The Mechanism of the Problem | |
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| The Solution: Lift, Stretch and Do Not Close the Kwa | |
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| Excercises to Stretch the Kwa While Sitting in a Chair | |
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| Should One Foot Be in Front of the Other? | |
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| Sitting on the Floor for Meditation | |
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| What Causes Knee Pain During Prolonged Cross-Legged Sitting On the Floor? | |
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| Releasing to Stretch a Muscle is Different from Pushing to Stretch a Muscle | |
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| From the Ming Men Point, Simultaneously Open Your Body Equally Up and Down to Protect Your Knees, Hips, and Lower Back | |
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| Do Not Force the Knees to Bend or Drop; Rather, Release from the Kwa and Hip Sockets to Protect Your Knee Ligaments | |
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| Should the Left or Right Leg Be on Top? | |
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| Sitting On a Cushion on the Floor | |
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| Frequently Asked Questions about Taoist Meditation | |
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| Energy Anatomy of the Human Body | |
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| The Main Energy Channels and the Three Tantiens | |