James Ward wrote:
>>Doug, where do you get the idea that Daoists urge lethargy?
> Daoists don't urge anything except Dao, in my perception...

James, you know lots more than I do about this field, but what I had
in mind was Li Chun Yun's (spelling is probably not even close, but
I'm refering to the guy who supposedly lived to something like 236 &
died circa 1933) admonition to sit like a tortise & sleep like a
dog.

Roy wrote:
>Unfortunately, (Stephen, David and TC ???), it is not easy to
> understand "Daoist Lethargy" intellectually. You really have to *experience* it.

SNIP

>A couple of weeks won't make you an expert, but a good
> teacher will show you how you are generating unnecessary tension,
> and expending unnecessary energy even
>when you *think* you are moving in a totally relaxed fashion.

Roy, could you expand on this (lethargically of course & at your
leisure).  I assume you are confirming that the Taoists place great
stock in "lethargy."  I think many would be interested in a longer
treatment of this whole thing.  Do you know anything about Taoist
techniques of life extension & their efficacy?

--Doug Schwartz
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