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Harmonizing Yin and Yang

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Who would not be allured into buying this book Harmonizing Yin and Yang. Although this book tends to provide some recipe to achieve dynamic energies, the ingredients and tools are incomprehensible to most readers, hence, hard to find. I had been rereading this book, but still could not achieve the energies which I greatly desired. I am lost by its seeming alchemy, however concisely it is written.

Books on Taoist Alchemy are very hit and miss. You have the secret teachings of the interactions of fire and water, lead, mercury, and cinnabar being fired in the cauldron. These are all understood to be metaphors for internal interactions with yin and yang energies. In conveying what is in the text of the Dragon-Tiger Classic this book does a really good job.

However this entire area of study is almost like a trick. Because no one can tell you about Dragon and Tiger unless you start doing Tai Chi or Chi Gung and experience these archetypes for yourself. The thought of someone trying to memorize these texts or trying to order their life around the right moon days or hours to congel the next set of energies is a frightening form of giving your power away to a set formula regardless of how noble the intentions of the originators. Chi is something you have to experience. And sometimes you have to wonder whether the Taoist masters who created these complex tomes were just smiling because they wanted you to be able to look past this stuff and get back into your own experience. Something akin to a Taoist/Zen koan. A kind of false shell that you had to overcome in order to really get into the depths of the experience.