james liem

Don't embarrass your immortal teachers and yourself by saying that any living thing can become a immortal. Don't fool us by your unlogical explanations.

Two thumbs up....

Flowing hand, you always boast yourself, you judge that your system is better than others. You know nothing about the immortal at all.

Hi Lukman, I'm also from Indonesia. Nice to know you...

Blue Moon Taoist...glad to hear about your progress in every aspect in your life

ChiDragon, the same explanation but in reversed with why anger can increase blood pressure. Its related with meredian in human body. Through meditation we learn to control our mind, meditation will allow us to have calmer mind so we can deal with life challenges more objectively. When we do meditation, we also manage our breath (do chi kung), our focus, our mind.

Can anybody here tell me what exactly Chi is?

OnARoad, just try to focus on Dan Tian to decrease blood pressure or the top of the nose to get a normal blood pressure. Just keep meditate, you get many advantages through this exercise.....

If we translate wu wei as not doing(passively), we will not get the essence of Wu wei as Lao Tze meant in his TTC. Wu wei is an active things. ...How can we reach a highest level of meditation without doing wu wei in our meditation?

CD.. Zhi ran and Wu wei has a difference meaning. You can not say that zhi ran is the hidden meaning for wu wei. Tao isn't seems like water. What I meant with the perfect example of wu wei is water is that the characteristic of water can be a perfect example of wu wei in daily life. It flows to the lowest area, it gives many benefit to humans and other creatures and so on, but water has never ask humans or other creatures to pay back what was given.

This example is not Wu wei, it is Zhi ran... The perfect example of Wu wei is water

Hello Claire,it is good for you to read a Taoism's book that is written by practitioner of Taoism. I suggest you to visit www.StudyTaoism.com to learn more about true taoism.

Hello Steven King, I suggest you to learn the Dao Yin Shu. This course is a complete one, you can learn meditation, Qi Gong and Shen Gong. Through this course you can achieve physical health and spiritual well-being.

Do you practice Chi Kung too?

Do you know where the end of the Du Channel and the end of the Ren Channel?

The taoists do follows the principles of the Tao Te Ching...I agree with you, but the taoists don't follow blindly the principles of the Tao Te Ching, they must apply in daily life so they really know what was wanted by Lao Tze.... When we read the Tao Te Ching that is translated in many languages, we have to know who translate that book that we read. All translators have their interpretations, if we aren't carefully, we will get a rubbish book. If we just read the Tao Te Ching, we like a blind who try to describe an elephant. When he held the trunk he describe an elephant as a hose, and so on....

When we just read or study Tao Te Ching, but we are not Tao's practitioner, we will meet many difficulties in understanding Lao Tze's philosophy in Tao Te Ching...

To finalize the meaning of Wu Wei, it is being "natural"; free of interference or interruption; let Nature take its course. For example, if you force your son to be a doctor but he wants to be a philosopher, then you are not being Wu Wei. It is because you were interfering with someone's will. If you let him be what he wants to be with no interference. Then, by the no action, it was said to be that you were being Wu Wei because you took no action on your part. ChiD, I think you have mistaken in understanding Wu Wei. In your example, you said that with no interference and then by no action you said that is Wu Wei, it will be a big mistake in your son's life. Why I said that because for example a son want to be a bank robber, his parent do nothing to interfere his option, and let his son become a robber. In daily life, Wu Wei can be translate as do many good actions without hope a payment for what was done. I mean that when we do a goog things/actions just do it, do not hope others will give the same things/actions on us.

Sorry I made a mistake. When you try to apply wu wei in life you will find that Wu Wei = wu shuo bu wei...That is Lao Tze 's philosopy. Lao tze described Dao was an active thing not a passive thing. Dao always moves, changes not just idle, not doing...

Worship the deity like Sun Wu Kong ( the monkey King) :lol: :P . There are many deities that we can Worship rather than just a monkey.....

To do good to society not just a Confusion philosophy, it also Taoism's philosophy. WU WEI is not just meant do nothing to harm society. In Chinese WU WEI = Wu Shuo Bu Wei. It means that nothings that is not done. All thing has been done....

I usually read that people mostly think that WU WEI means do nothing, depend on or submit to his fate,(passive way) . I don't agree with them . I think that WU WEI is a active way. We have to do many usefull things and make our life better. We have to do many good things for our lifes, our famillies and rendered considerable service to society without hoping a reward and we can forget that we have done good or helped anyone else, as if we do nothing in our society. If we can do that way, it's called WU WEI

WU WEI = we have done anything and there is nothing that we haven't done, and after we done anything we can forget what was done as if we do nothing Yes, I think that his idea about WU WEI is very simple, but is very-very difficult to apply in our daily life

In my opinion, when we have done anything and there is nothing that I haven't done, that is WU WEI....

I know a Great Taoist Master in Jakarta, Indonesia. You can visit StudyTaoism.com ,There many students/ practicioners in Fredericksburg.