a Daoist take on meditation, the 'natural state'

http://www.dayuancircle.com/Frost_bell/frost_bell001.pdf

"Liu Ming is a euro-American who over the last 40 years has had the
great good fortune to study and practice Chinese Daoism, Chan/Zen
and Tantric Buddhism with several great teachers. He holds a degree
in Asian aesthetics (art/philosophy) and has been teaching aspects
of Chinese medicine and astrogeomancy for several decades. He currently
lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. His students understand
him to be a trance-medium.


About this, he says: “the spiritual path
of animism is defined by the willingness (rather than ability) of
the practitioner to relax his/her personal story or stream into
the Big Story or Limitless Sea of the natural environment (Dao,
Heaven). In animism, it is not a goal accomplished by effort but
a matter of relaxing into naturalness. Forgetting and remembering
become a dance that is not bound by a fixed or hardened sense of 'my story'.”