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The highest level of attainment within the Taoist path is "Immortality ." To become an Immortal is something like becoming a Buddha, for a Buddhist; or becoming a Mahasiddha or an Avadhuta a liberated soul within the traditions of Hinduism or Advaita Vedanta. It's a big deal! So what exactly is an Immortal? And would you recognize him/her as such, if you met them on the street (taoism.about.com....tality.htm)
Who knows what Immortality really is . but here's someone who I've found to be quite wise (as wise as a puppet can be) about these things. Highly recommended (taoism.about.com....tality.htm)
His audio release, "Everyday Immortality " (Random House Audio), contains a series of insights, known in eastern wisdom traditions as sutras, or koans. You will ponder the meaning of each statement - some obvious, others more challenging. Through this process, the listener's thought patterns are literally transformed, causing a permanent shift in perception. (www.salon.com....mortality/)
RU: Aubrey de Grey, of course, is the hacker-biologist who has become very well known for saying that this is quite plausible in the near future. Is there any progress that he57;s pointed to, or that you can point to, since he really proclaimed the plausibility of immortality some time around the beginning of this century (www.10zenmonkeys.com....-me-death/)
In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life. Sir Rabindranath Tagor (www.just-quotes.com....uotes.html)
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life. Arianna Stassinopoulo (www.just-quotes.com....uotes.html)
Our prayer book tells us: 'The righteous of 'all' nations are worthy of immortality .' There are many mountain tops, and all of them reach for the stars. Rabbi Morris N. Kertze (www.just-quotes.com....uotes.html)
Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while. Hannah Arend (www.just-quotes.com....uotes.html)
In the history of Taoism, the search for Immortality has taken two forms: (1) the external alchemy path of creating and ingesting elixirs intended to prolong physical life; and (2) the internal alchemy path of working with the Three Treasures of jing, qi (chi) and shen in order to improve health and more importantly to connect with that aspect of ourselves that survives the death of the body . In the former, Immortality is understood as the creation of a physical body that maintains its form indefinitely, i.e. that never dies. In the latter, Immortality is understood as the process of transferring our awareness from the physical into the more subtle aspects of our being, so that even when the body dies, we will (consciously) continue. It is this second approach to Taoist Immortality that will be the focus of this essa (taoism.about.com....tality.htm)
The Sixth Esoteric Initiation is Ascension which was enacted by Christ after his appearance in the resurrected body of Jesus. This represents the complete merging into cosmic consciousness. It also represents Immortality in both of the ways this word is used in Taoism: as consciousness identified wholly with spirit, and as the physical body itself having become Immortal not by maintaining its physical form, but rather by being transmuted into a Body of Ligh (taoism.about.com....tality.htm)
Though the language is different, the particular stages through which practitioners pass are often quite similar, across traditions (a point made by Joseph Campbell in his Hero With A Thousand Faces ). So the Inner Alchemical stages through which a Taoist initiate passes, en route to Immortality , bear clear resemblances to the stages described through the Christian Gospel Story. And both of these can be seen as examples of the Stages of Initiation described by Esoteric science. I've explored this all in more detail in this new essay . Enjoy (taoism.about.com....-story.htm)
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