Taoist Secrets of Love

Mantak Chia，was born in Thailand泰国

on April 4,1944. When he was six or seven years of age he learned to

"sit and still the mind" from Buddhist monks while on a summer

vacation. This is not to say that he was passive and quiet as a child.

In fact, he excelled in track and field events during his grammar

school days in Hong Kong. It was during that time that he learned

the traditional Thai Boxing and met Master Lu, who taught him Tai

Chi Chuan. Shortly thereafter, Master Lu introduced him to

Aikido, Yoga and more Tai Chi. His knowledge of esoteric practice

did not begin, however, until he was eighteen and he had returned to

Thailand. It was at that time that a senior classmate, Cheng Sue Sue,

a student of Yi-Eng, taught him the level of Tao Esoteric practice up

to the Reunion of Man and Heaven。

When he was in his twenties, Master Chia studied with Master

Meugi in Singapore, who taught him Kundalini Yoga and the Buddhist Palm. With the Buddhist Palm, he was soon able to eliminate

blockages of flow of life-force in his internal organs and to drive

cold, wet or sick energy out of patients who came to see his Master,

thereby restoring them to health. The young Mantak Chia felt, however, that Kundalini Yoga produced too much heat and could be

dangerous and so he later combined it with elements of Taoist practice, which had cooling effects。

Later, in his twenties, he met and studied with Master Pan

Yu, who had created a synthesis out of Taoist, Buddhist and

Ch'an teaching, and Master Cheng Yao-Lung, who had also created a new system by combining Thai Boxing and Kung Fu. From

Master Cheng Yao-Lung, he learned the Shao-Lin secret method

of internal power as well as the Iron Shirt method called "Cleansing the Marrow and Renewal of the Tendon". From Master Pan

Yu, he learned a variation of Kundalini and the "steel body", a

technique that is said to keep the body from decay. Master Pan Yu

still lives and practices in Hong Kong, where he treats patients by

transmitting his life-force to them. To better understand the

mechanism behind the healing energy, Chia also studied Western

medical science and anatomy for two years.。

Yet, with all of these achievements, Master Chia was the manager of the Gestetner Company in Thailand, was in charge of sales

of offset machines and was well acquainted with the working of

the company's copying and printing machines. He may well be the

only Taoist master in the world with a computer in his living room.

He is also married and has a son. His wife Maneewan works as a

medical technician. He is, in short, living proof that his practice is

very much down-to-earth, striving to enhance everyday life and

not requiring retreat from society to a hermit's life.

The main thrust of Chia's intention is to strip away the mysticism, the mumbo-jumbo, the powers vested in the Guru, the reliance on things-other-worldly or magical. He seeks to present, instead, a fully predictable working model that might be considered

as a scientific means of dealing with energy systems. In time, he

hopes this will lead to technological developments that might serve

to simplify or speed the means whereby such progress might be

made. It is with such hopes that he beckons members of the

medical community to investigate what he has to offer. There are

already physicians and lawyers and computer programmers, who

have experienced, first hand, the benefits that Master Chia's methods provide. It is up to them and others in the scientific community to join Master Chia in his lifetime task of bridging the gap between reason and spirit, mind and body, science and religion.