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Taoism Practice - What is this?
By Jhian

If you ask a common person what means to practice Taoism today you'll find that you should go to the temple, pray to gods, sacrifice things, keep a certain diet, follow certain rituals, and so forth. This is nothing new and doesn't differ from other religions such as the Christian one.

Still we know of a "way" called tao-chia (the school of tao or of uniting with tao) that doesn't have nothing of a religious system. Its learning is inspired by the works of the famous ancient Taoist Masters such as Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu, and is based mainly on practicing nondoing and emptiness.

Actually we know what nondoing and emptiness are, but we don't have any hint on how to practice them in our day to day life. To speak true, are they also practices? You may ask this question too as you are familiar with the meaning of the word "practice" as taught by our modern schools referring to a kind of developing one's intellectual skills and knowledge. Really we go to school in order to acquire these skills and knowledge, and develop them further in our later age.

The answer is yes and no. Yes, we can practice nondoing and emptiness, and no, these practices don't have any relation to the development of such intellectual skills. Though there's something concerning the mind (don't mistake "mind" for the intellect) in these practices too.

So I was asked by my students to write a course especially dedicated to these practices, and mainly on how we may actually apply the Taoist teachings to our day to day life. This course - Taoism Practice in the Day to Day Life - is ready and intended for people without any prior experience with Taoism teachings, namely the beginners. I also provided some hints on this course in the Taoism Forum. You may benefit too from reading my interview by visiting the page at http://www.taoismforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=35.

Or simply you may enroll and find yourself what is about. Please visit the course page at http://www.taopage.org/taoism_practice.html. And follow the instruction.

Should you need more information on my course, you may send me your concern to jhian@taopage.org. I'll try to respond as quickly as possible though there are many requests and not so much time left to reply.

One more thing: you will not find any similar course over the internet based on the daily experience because is not easy to systematize a way to be followed by people of our modern world from the obscured teachings of the ancient masters. Thus I hope you will appreciate my effort and seize what is really exciting with this course: starting a practice of the old times which is still in use! And what it's worth - this practice is based on attaining the unity with the Tao, that is, the Infinite Power of the Universe.

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