A Daoist Practice Journal: Come Laugh With Me - Softcover

Rinaldini, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484865332 ISBN 13: 9781484865330

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Qigong Teacher and Daoist Priest Michael Rinaldini has written a book on the modern day practices of a Daoist. His book, A Daoist Practice Journal: Come Laugh With Me offers the cultivation methods for walking the Daoist path. The entries cover topics like zuowang meditation, scriptures, qigong, the value of silence and solitude, and Daoist, Buddhist and Catholic mysticism, tea drinking and more. ReviewsA Daoist Practice Journal: Come Laugh With Me is the detailed, personal record of ordained Daoist Michael Rinaldini’s ongoing exploration of and immersion in Dao, starting from his first contact with the Daoist tradition and moving through many years of practice, study, retreats, and life changes. It opens a new and refreshing perspective on many traditional topics, such as qigong and zuowang, encouraging seekers and students to trust themselves, the world, and Dao to lead them on the right path. Deeply felt and very moving, a truly inspiring record.Livia Kohn, editor, Three Pines Press. Livia is the author of Sitting in Oblivion: The Heart of Daoist Meditation and numerous other books on the Daoist tradition.Li Changdao shows us that being a Daoist priest is a living, contemporary, and vital act. He takes us through his own learning, recreating his own special Dao in writing. For all who wonder how to practice Daoism in the present day and outside of China, this book provides valuable insight and rare encouragement. Deng Ming-Dao is the author of Chronicles of Tao, Scholar Warrior and his recent book The Lunar Tao, among his other books on Daoist culture. A fascinating account of one man’s journey to become one with Dao, toldfrom a modern perspective. It reminds us that this journey, which studentsof the Way have been taking for thousands of years, still resonates asstrongly and powerfully as it did in the time of Laozi and Zhuangzi.Solala Towler, editor of The Empty Vessel: The Journal of Daoist Philosophy and Practice

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About the Author

Michael Rinaldini (Shifu Li Chang Dao) is the director of the Qigong & Daoist Training Center, and the founder of the American Dragon Gate Lineage. He focuses on the Daoist healing arts of qigong, meditation, Daoist scriptures, Cha Dao (Way of Tea), and Daoist priest training. He is a National Qigong Association Level IV (highest) Certified Qigong Teacher, a Senior Certified Bagua Xundao Gong Qigong Teacher by Master Wan Su Jian, Beijing, China, and a 22nd generation Longmen Daoist priest, ordained in China in 2003. Michael offers Qigong Certification Programs for Advanced Trainings, and trains and ordains Daoist students as Daoist priests of his founding Lineage. He lives with his family in Sebastopol, Northern California. For more information, please visit: www.qigongdragon.com

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484865332
• ISBN 13: 9781484865330
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166