Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao: The Taoist Secret of Circulating Internal Power

Author: Mantak Chia, Justine Toms
List Price: $17.95
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ISBN: 1574531042
Publisher: Audio Literature (December, 1997)
Sales Rank: 232,185
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5
Outstanding book for martial artists.
Mantak Chia has written a book that is easy to understand and practice. I am a student and instructor of internal kung-fu, and I use this book as a textbook for students as they study Chi Kung, especially solo postures. I practice the techniques in this book and find them extremely beneficial in stress management, health, and martial arts.

Rating: 4 out of 5
This book is small
This is the first and only Mankak Chia book that I have as yet. It's good for the little details that other people and books might confuse - like which hand to use to closing the orbit. I really wish that this book had more information, especially about the orbit as it goes through the legs and arms. I have come back and added a star to my review as I realised that Mantak is such a reliable source that it makes reading other sources on the microcosmic orbit much more lucid. My tan tien is not at my navel though.

Rating: 1 out of 5
wheel without a hub
While Mantak Chia's works have boldly promoted Taoist qi gong into popular culture they've also, unfortunately, promoted fundamental mis-conceptions that inevitably lead to injury.

Yin and yang can't be successfully cultivated without knowledge of resolution into the neutral space. A wheel needs a hub or, in Buddhist terms, if you're going to invigorate a wheel you'd better also know how to get off of it... This makes the distinction between promoting agitation, addiction vs. promoting stability, freedom.

While Chia's modern renditions are obviously serious attempts they, sadly, are missing the deeper material that make this sort of work... actually work. Some review of classic texts is in order.

Suggested remedial texts:
"Tsongkhapa's Six Yogas of Naropa" transl. by Glenn H. Mullin
"Cultivating the Energy of Life" transl. by Eva Wong

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