Daoist Meditation in the Eastern Han Period
… (including Daoism and Buddhism) consists of an array of terminology, breathing, concentration, and visualization techniques: xinzhi 心齊, or “fasting the heart,” zuowang 坐忘, or “sitting and forgetting,” cunsi 存思, or “focusing…
In the Eastern Han period around 148 CE, Daoist meditation practices already existed, with references found in ancient texts like the Tao Te Ching. Practitioners sought immortality through various tec