The ancient Chinese Masters practiced inner cultivation as a daily discipline.

They lived in the world and at the same time keeping an eye on their personal inner growth. Somewhere on their journey they must have felt a dissonance between their deepest inner feelings and the appearances in the outer world. It must have triggered them into a profound inquiry into the functioning of the Tao and the mechanisms playing out in the visible world.

We now have access to their heritage, there are many key-books in which they have written their personal endeavors and findings with regard to Tao. Due to the circumstances of that time, they packed their information in many metaphors which makes their writings sometimes difficult to comprehend. Their teachings were kept secret for a long time, it is like a closed-door which can be opened and entered as soon as the reader is ready to comprehend the meaning for itself.

Inner cultivation is an individual practice, where the person starts to pay more attention to its inner feeling, sensing, perceiving to become aware of the Energy that runs inside the body-mind, and has to do with developing an understanding of the interconnectedness of phenomena, to become deeply aware of being. There is a deepening inside our being, where we can enter into the more subtle realms of ourselves and experience.

There is a huge benefit in cultivation because the practice also involves personal well-being and health. Inquiring and cultivating the depths of your inner being also sheds a light on the inner programming , the energetic dynamics going on inside yourself, you are able to recognize stored energies in the form of memories playing out in the present. When seen you can take control over your thoughts and take a closer look at the energy bubbling up from within your own Well (in Dao De Jing and I Ching we find The Well as a metaphor).

Cultivation gives you the ability to take control of the cooking process of your own inner Cauldron (which also is a metaphor in Dao De Jing and I Ching).

There are many aspects with regard to 'cooking', it is a process, not too slow, not too much fire, never let the cooking pot stand without regularly checking it because you may ruin the process in the Cauldron.

In short, it is a process of alignment with Tao, the latter being your personal guide with a tremendous connection within yourself.

Are you ready to start your individual cultivation in the process?