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I was looking into Taoist meditations, not the meditations per se, but rather classifications of the meditations, more like an index page to see how they compare to meditative traditions I'm already familiar with. According to Bruce Francis there are Water and Fire meditation methods, he's also written some books on the water methods. He hasn't published anything on the fire methods, so what are they, a Daoist version of Tummo ? energy going up does have a Tummo-like flavor to it. Tummo uses a 5-chakra system, central channel + 2 side channels, at least in its Tibetan version. If Tummo-ish, In Daoist fire methods, I assume this picture is thrown out of the window and instead a TCM model is used ? Are Francis' books on the water methods good? as in are the instructions on the book sufficient to practice the meditations ? Also, are they real/traditional meditations transmitted from a Taoist lineage ( as opposed to being eg inspired by original lineage practices ) ?