Meditation
in Taoism
The word "meditation"
is often associated in many people's minds with Buddhic postures, sitting
cross-legged with hands cupped, or the Zen posture of hands together
in prayer. There is nothing like this kind of meditation in Taoism.
Basically, Taoist meditation is more like a sort of wisdom achieved
by close observation of the things and phenomena in the world surrounding
us. Such wisdom should help us go alongside with things and not against
them, and is surely related to the Taoist way of life.
Taoist meditation
is contemplation, but only in so much as this undertaking involves,
one way or another, some penetration of the cosmic phenomena, or, on
the contrary, it enables our self to get free from the endless network
of out-dated or simply mistaken ideas, representations, memories etc.
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