PEARLS OF WISDOM
Tao Congress 2010
MASTER MANTAK CHIA
Master Mantak Chia,
Founder of the Universal Healing Tao
Recognized very early as having great potential for spiritual development, Master Mantak Chia was initiated into meditation practices by Buddhist monks at the age of 6. While studying in Hong Kong, he learned Tai Chi Chuan, Aikido and Kundalini Yoga from a variety of teachers. His pursuit of Taoist teachings lead him to meet the White Cloud Hermit, a Taoist Master originally from Central China, living at that time in the mountains not far from Hong Kong: Master Yi Eng was to become Master Mantak Chia's principle teacher.
Over a period of five years, Master Yi transmitted to Master Mantak Chia the most sacred and closely held Taoist practices, formulas and methods of internal alchemy, culminating in the Reunion of Heaven and Man. Realizing that as transmitted to him, these Immortal practices could not easily be absorbed by western students, Master Mantak Chia undertook to integrate them with his studies in western physical anatomy. Through this process he created a unique view of the internal aspects of these practices.
With the Universal Tao system, Mantak Chia has created for the first time a way for any individual to quickly get to the essence of subtle practices whose real purpose has been shrouded in secrecy for millenia. The author of dozens of books, booklets, videos and CDs describing the theory and methods of these practices, Master Mantak Chia has taught hundreds of thousands of eager students the principles of Taoist internal practice over the past 40 years. He has certified hundreds of Instructors and Practitioners to help in the transmission of these teachings.
The Nine Supreme Inner Alchemy Formulas of Grand Master One Cloud: The Way of the Tao and Basis of the Universal Tao System
Tao gives rise to one, One gives rise to two,
Two gives rise to three,
Three gives rise to all things.
Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 1
In his keynote address to the Congress, Master Chia will discuss the basis of the Universal Tao system according to his Master, One Cloud.
In Taoist tradition, it is said that the Three which gives rise to all things, already initiates the "Return to the Source",
that is, the Reunion with the Tao.
The Three manifests as the Cosmic Force,
which permeates the Universe as the presence
of Universal Love and makes Yin and Yang
stick together, creating Heaven and Earth,
the Five Elements, the Human Being and
all else that exists in the world.
Answering the call of Universal Love,
One Cloud's Supreme Inner Alchemy Formulas
lead us step by step, on our way back into the Tao,
achieving the Alchemical Marriages of Heaven and Earth,
the Five Elements, Fire and Water,
Spirit and Matter, Inner and Outer,
Time and Eternity, finally to attain to the Ninth Formula,
which is called "The Reunion of Human and Tao" and
unifies the other 8 Formulas into One Supreme Alchemy Formula.
Read more about Master Chia at www.universal-tao.com
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