Negotiating breath and thoughts is common to many Asian - TopicsExpress



          

Negotiating breath and thoughts is common to many Asian contemplative traditions and very popular today ... the question is whether the one-track approach of respiration is lopsided as our experience is also linked to digestion, circulation etc. ... in modern Daoism (since 12th c) mental states and respiration have come forward but there is always the important sub-context of digestion-assimilation characteristic of so-called alchemy ... the breath (qi, Heaven), in that tradition, is inexorably linked to essence (jing, Earth) ... indeed the notions of jing and qi are inseparable ... just sayin
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 15:51:00 +0000

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