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Mantak Chia was born on 24 April, 1944 in Bangkok, Thailand, is a Thai author and tantric practitioner. Discover Mantak Chia's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Occupation Author, teacher, and healer
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 24 April 1944
Birthday 24 April
Birthplace Bangkok, Thailand
Nationality Thailand

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1944

Mantak Chia (Chinese: 謝明德, Pinyin: Xiè Míngdé, born April 24, 1944, in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Taoist Master.

Mantak Chia is the creator of the Healing Tao, Tao Yoga, Universal Healing Tao System, and Tao Garden Health Spa & Resort, located in the northern countryside of Chiang Mai, Thailand.

He wrote more than 60 books on Taoist practices and taught the principles of Taoist internal arts.

His books have been translated into more than 40 languages.

He views himself primarily as a teacher.

Mantak Chia was born to a Chinese family in Thailand in 1944.

He was raised in a Christian household, with his grandfather a Baptist minister and his mother a missionary.

He began studying the Buddhist method of "stilling the mind" at the age of six, and later studied Muay Thai, tai chi, kung fu and Taoist and Buddhist meditation practices from several masters.

Of all his masters, the most influential one was Yi Eng (White Cloud), an eremitic member of the Dragon's Gate sect of the Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) school of Taoism, who taught Chia a complete Taoist training system and authorized him to teach and heal.

Later, he studied Western anatomy and medical science for two years to better understand the physiological mechanisms behind healing energy.

1974

He established his first Universal Healing Tao school in Thailand in 1974 after systematizing his knowledge of Taoism.

1979

He founded the Universal Healing Tao Center (originally named the Taoist Esoteric Yoga Center) in New York in 1979.

The center attracted a broad variety of European and American students, and some of them helped him teach Taoist practices to western students.

1990

Mantak Chia has been named twice as "Qigong Master of the Year" by the International Congress of Chinese Medicine and Qigong in 1990 and 2012 and is also listed as number 18 of the "100 most Spiritually Influential people" in The Watkins Review 2012.

1994

He returned to Thailand in 1994 and created the Universal Tao Training Center (Tao Garden) in Chiang Mai.

He not only teaches at Tao Garden but also tours other countries to teach and promote the Healing Tao practices every year.

Rooted in traditional Taoist practices, Chia's teaching system develops integrated physical, mental and spiritual (energy) bodies internal to human beings.

The focus is on developing human life energy — qi — for self-healing and life transformation.

Chia's lineage is that of the Dragon's Gate sect of the Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) school of Taoism.

This sect takes the practical approach in studying Taoist Inner Alchemy (Chinese: 內丹實修派).

It emphasizes knowledge and method that are effective to develop the states of inner experience and consciousness that are the birthright of all humans and accessible by all, without unnecessary rituals.

After having inherited the complete Taoist internal spiritual cultivation system from his master, Yi Eng, Chia followed the master's instruction to teach it to others.

The first two formulas are probably the most famous parts of Mantak Chia's teaching.

However, they are not the core of the system.

The purpose of the two formulas is to invoke one's awareness of qi, to strengthen it, and to open important qi channels in one's body, such as the governor and functional channels.

These practices build a solid foundation for later formulas.

Sexual energy plays very important roles in qi cultivation.

Taoist practitioners believe that the sexual energy accounts for a large part of the energy that a human body generates, and a person cannot achieve spiritual fulfillment without conserving and leveraging the power of the sexual energy.

The first step of traditional inner alchemy (Chinese: 內丹) is transforming the material carrier of sexual energy (jing) into qi.

The second formula lays a solid foundation for this purpose.

However, because sex is a "hot" topic in a society, teaching sexual practices might be controversial.

The third formula, Fusion, really starts inner alchemy practices.

Inner alchemy traditionally has three stages: transforming jing to qi, transforming qi to shen, returning shen to void.

Qi and shen are inner life energies with shen being a more refined level, and both originate from the same original universe force.

In Kan Li practices, one should have developed strong qi of all kinds so that intercourses of different qi take place resulting in a qi entity, call qi pearl (Chinese: 內丹), inside one's own body.

This process is often described by the analogy of intercourses of a female and a male which leads to a fertilized egg.

The intensive qi activities create an internal energy body which becomes the center of further practices, and eventually, the internal body leads to Tao, reaching immortality.

Cultivating the internal body and merging into Tao are the central practices of Taoist inner alchemy, which require great dedication and determination.

James Miller thinks that Chia's teachings of qi and cosmology is similar to the Taoist instructor Hua-ching Ni, but Chia's books lack discussion of philosophy, ethics or everyday practical advice.

The system Chia presents is a narrowly focused system of qigong rooted firmly in neidan.