Sealing Of The Five Senses: Advanced Practices For Becoming A Taoist Immortal

REVIEW: Sealing Of The Five Senses

December 20, 2017

Sealing Of The Five Senses: Advanced Practices For Becoming A Taoist Immortal

By Mantak Chia & William U. Wei

176 pages, paperback

Published by Destiny Books

For those new to Mantak Chia’s work, his Universal Healing Tao system is founded on meditation techniques and breathing exercises. Diet, sleep patterns and general lifestyle choices are also addressed for the betterment of health. As the subtitle suggests, the system includes exercises passed down by Taoist practitioners through the ages, however many of the basic concepts will be familiar to students of yoga and the Asian martial arts.

It would be too easy to summarise the Universal Healing Tao System as merely breathing exercises and meditation; the system presupposes a paradigm shift on a spiritual level and creates awareness in the individual as to his or her position in the grand scheme of our natural and supernatural world and beyond. One may notice similarities between Mantak Chia’s system and the classic esoteric work, Secret of the Golden Flower: those acquainted with this text will be at home with some of the more unusual concepts tackled by Wei and Chia (like the forming of the Immortal Child).

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