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 Nondoing concept and practice.

There are a lot of Taoist texts pointing to the mediation technique. Here's a fragment from a dialogue between Master Lieh and one of his disciples:

At the end of seven years, there was another change. I let my mind reflect on what it would, but it no longer occupied itself with right and wrong. I let my lips utter whatsoever they pleased, but they no longer spoke of profit and loss. (From Taoist Teachings Translated from the Book of Lieh Tzu, 1912, Lionel Giles version).

The phrase "no longer spoke of profit and loss" points to the complete detachment of the Taoist from all contingencies of human ethics.

What is meditation good for? It clearly helps one understand the momentary trends of the universe in order to follow them in one's very life. In other words, the Taoist disciple tries to adopt a life style corresponding to the movement of the universe or the Tao.

We (The Way of Perfect Emptiness ) developed an email course for beginners dedicated to the study of Taoist meditation and its various methods. This course may be taken in order to clearly seize the aim of meditation and how this aim is attain mainly through the Tao teachings.