Taoist Meditation
——A practice that boosts your self-healing power, maximizes your creativity and guides you into the deepest nature of yourself as a human being as well as the core of the Chinese Culture
Living in today’s world we no longer feed on bread or rice, but on information. There is never a time in the history of the mankind when our life is so overwhelmed by information, first by information from the Internet through computer, now by information from the mobile phone. A digitalized world overwhelmed by information could be much more addictive and destructive than alcohol or drugs. Its ability to mobilize resources puts the people in today’s world, especially those well-educated white collars on a production line that hardly stop and often runs much faster than it should. Bread or rice feed our body, while information feeds simply our mind and suppresses our body. This disconnection of mind and body withers our soul and causes all kinds of psychological and physical problems in our life, includes depression, insomnia, gastritis, and all kinds of tumors.
It’s no wonder that a new interesting phenomenon of our age is this fervent seek for spiritual teachings, as this seek is nothing else but the longing of a painful body and a lost mind for reunion. However, a common problem with many spiritual teachings in today’s world is that they points out the destination, but the way to it is often too obscure and hard to follow. The gap between the body and the mind remains deep and broad and the solutions offered by the orthodox medicine, whether it be drugs, surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, often prove more destructive than helpful.
When I was diagnosed to have lymphoma at the age of 38, 2 and a half years ago, after I had taught law in a law school for 7 years, won a doctor degree in a prestigious law school in Beijing and worked as a lawyer in one of the top 3 law firms in China. Although having no medical background, I refused to immediately have orthodox treatment of chemo as suggested by the doctor and decided to at least first try to heal myself. I launched a long distance cycling of more than 3000 kilometers from North China to South China in 2 months, and in the first ten days, my tumor dwindled by a half. After the trip is ended and I returned to Beijing, I started to practice Taoist meditation as advised by a friend. Since then I meditates for 2-3 hours each day in average and as a result, not only my lymphoma never deteriorates, but my other ailments, including atrophic gastritis, prostatitis, allergic rhinitis, ankylosing spondylitis (AS) as well as depression have all significantly receded or totally healed. Just as a wise ancient Chinese saying puts it, in each disaster lies a blessing, the scaring encounter with lymphoma finally opens a wonderful new world for me. This is a world of Qi, the miraculous healing power in our body unknown to western medicine, a world of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the ancient Chinese medical art of boosting and balancing the flow of Qi in our body and healing the body in a way that is very mysterious not only to most western people, but also to most Chinese people nowadays, and a world of Buddhism and Taoism, especially the latter, which reveals the most ignored truth of our being and constitutes the most fundamental basis of the Chinese culture. The more I become familiar with this new world, the more I admire the beauty of my own culture and its value for today’s world, for fulfilling the most urgent task of our time: to reunite the mind and body and thereby revitalize our withering soul.
Of course, with what is said above, I have no intention to deny the contribution of the western civilization to the spiritual growth of mankind, especially to the rationalization of the human consciousness. It’s this rationalization of the human consciousness that makes it possible for us to demystify und fully understand Buddhism and Taoism, and the traditional Chinese medicine and the intangible world of Qi as well. Anyway, this is a time for the ancient oriental wisdom and the relatively younger western wisdom to converge and jointly bring the consciousness of the mankind into a totally new age, in which a new civilization is to be born.
Therefore it’s an advantage of me that, as an academic deeply influenced by the western culture, I had seriously pondered over the methodology of scientific research and the philosophy of law, which is nothing else but the product of the long evolution of human consciousness and the benchmark of its rationalization. In comparison with those who follow the ancient oriental tradition of learning by sticking to a certain master, I can, on the basis of my own experience of meditation, freely draw on the different resources of knowledge of our time, including psychology, neurology, legal science, philosophy and especially anthroposophy, a new branch of science about the nature of the human being initiated by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), an Austrian philosopher, and come up with what I believe is a more comprehensive understanding of the human being, while the Taoist meditation is a reliable way that makes this understanding possible and accessible.
Accordingly, now my life has been fully remolded and focuses upon research in mental and physical health and the spiritual growth of the human being as individuals and as a society as well. I give lectures and workshops on Taoist meditation, traditional Chinese culture, health and spiritual growth in Beijing and other cities in China. Now I think it’s time also to share what I have learned in my life with friends from other cultures and benefit from their insights into our existence as human beings and today’s world. By now I write and give speeches and workshops simply in Chinese, but I will start to do so in English.
Here are some of what I have translated and written:
Translation:
From German to Chinese:
- Einführung ins Recht (An Introduction of Law), Prof. Reinhold Zippelius, Press of China University of Politics and Law, 2007
- Rechtsmethodenlehre (Legal Methodology), Prof. Reinhold Zippelius, Law Press, 2009
- Rechtsphilosophy (Legal Philosophy), Prof. Reinhold Zippelius, Beijing University Press, 2013
- Was ist Anthroposophy ( What is Anthroposophy), Heinz Zimmermann, to be published.
- Das Leben hat Keinen Rückwärtsgang (The Life Has No Return), Wilfried Nelles, to be published.
From English to Chinese:
- The Road Less Traveled, Morgan Scott Peck, not published
Essays in Chinese (all published in “Meditation and Health”，a blog which is read with mobile run by myself in China):
- The Importance of Taoist Meditation
- How I get rid of Lymphoma through long distance cycling and meditation
- Meditation and the Prevention and Treatment of Depression
- What is Meditation and its Method
- Education as Medical Treatment and Medical Treatment as Education
- Let the life be as Beautiful as Spring Flowers
- The Human Being Striding towards Freedom: an Afterword of the translation of “Was ist Anthroposophy”
- Anthroposophy and Anthroposophic Medicine
- Freedom begins with Understanding of Our Being
- Enjoying the life or Stopping the Pain? – The Difference between Taoist Meditation and Vipassana (1)-(4)
- Sun: the Propelling Power of Evolution and the Basis of Civilization?
- Taoist Meditation: the best check-up and the ideal therapy
- Art, Meditation and Education
- The 4 Pillars of Our Health
- What Kind of Secondary School Education We Need? —— on the Preparation for Establishing the Secondary Grades at Nanshan Waldorf School in Beijing
- The Failure of the Constitution Movement in Late Qing Dynasty in China and the Spiritual Growth of the Human Society
- What do We Talk About when We Talk About Love
- Live for Sex?
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