A diligent practioner often lives to ninety years of age and re-
mains healthy and alert, is able to jog, run and climb mountains
with ease, and continues to enjoy life more fully than most people.
Many reportedly could forecast their own time of death and pass
on peacefully and gracefully in the posture of meditation.
However, it should be noted that in old China your doctor was
considered a failure if you became sick. The best doctors trained
their “patients” to prevent illness by maintaining a high level of health.
The promise of Esoteric Taoist Yoga is to reveal the methods bringing
your various bodily energy systems into harmony.
Stephen Pan, Ph.D.
Dir. East Asian Research Institute
New York, N.Y.A Doctor’s Search for
the Taoist Healing Energy
by Lawrence Young, M.D.
When I was twelve and had just begun my grammar school edu-
cation in Hong Kong under the British system, I was at an age of
fantasies and hero worship. I was crazy about physics, mathemat-
ics, atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs and nuclear reactors. Albert
Einstein was my hero and I wanted to be a physicist, discovering
the smallest particles of energy and matter, while exploring the
galaxies and the ever expanding universe.
Oddly enough, it was during the same time period that I read
about the esoteric experience of Master Yun. It was written in Chi-
nese, and I had the good fortune of having been taught how to read
classical, modern and simplified versions of the chinese language.
I did a lot of reading, staying in school and public libraries in Hong
Kong several hours a day after school was over. There I read about
Master Yun’s strange experience.
Master Yun was 28 in the year 1900. Pulmonary tuberculosis
was rampant in his village. Many villagers had died, including his
cousin. Then he came down with a cough which lingered for sev-
eral months. One day he coughed up a large amount of red blood
and went into a panic. He checked with his village elders, as well
as the traditional herbal doctors. They all confirmed that there wasChapter XI