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influence of Tantric Yoga: Certain respiratory practices and sexual simultaneously
entered China from the seventh century of the Christian era (see below) . Dr. Jean
Filliozat concluded for a copy of India, categorically: "Taoism could not have copied the
notion of the physiological role of respiration systematized in this way, the old Chinese
medicine because it did not exist "(Taoism et Yoga in Vietnam, No. 3, August 1949, ps.
113-120). On the other par-te, in China there were certain techniques archaic shamanic
structure, who programmed the imitation of movements and breathing of the animals (see
our book Le shamanism archaïque et les techniques de l'Extase, p . 402). Breathing
"deeply and quiet" of ecstasy was like the breathing of the animals during hibernation,
and we know that spontaneity and fullness of animal life was, for the Chinese, the
quintessential model of a perfect existence harmony with the Cosmos. Marcel Granet
joint function admirably sums orga-cal and spiritual this embryonic respiration,
characteristic of both organic and full of ecstasy. "Whoever wants to avoid vertigo pamaking
and should learn to breathe not only through the your throat, but the whole body
from the heels. Only this breath, deep and silent, refines and enriches the subs -tance.
Moreover, respiration is imposing both dur-ing the hibernation and during ecstasy. When
breathing with the neck bent or extended laminar get to breath and five-taesenciar its
vivifying power. The ultimate goal is to establish a kind of internal circulation of the vital
principles in such a way that the individual can remain perfectly waterproof and endure
without molestation from the immersion test. became one waterproof, independent,
invulnerable, from the moment you see po - art of eating and breathing in a closed circuit,
a powerful way to an embryo "(Marcel Granet, La pense chinoise, Paris, 1934, ps. 514-
515). It is possible, then, that Indian influences in the media have acted neo-Taoist
claiming for, not scientific Chinese medicine, but the tradition of "mystical" autocto-na:
now, this still had the nostalgia immemorial of bliss and spontaneity animals. However,
Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching, 6) and Tchouang Tse (Chapter 15) already knew the "respiration
methods.
The breathing technique is also used by the mystic island-mica (J. Goldziher,
Vorlesungen der Tiber Islam, Heidelberg, 1910, p. 164, M. Moreno, Muslim mystics and
Indian mysticism in Lateranensi Annali, 1946, ps. 102 -- 212, esp. p. 140, and especially
L. Gar-det, La mention du nom divin (dhikr) dans la mystique musulmane, "Revue
thomiste, 1952, ps. 641-679, 1953, ps. 197-213, study uti-ized below). Whatever this
origen5 res-expiratory technique within the Islamic tradition, it is clear that some Muslim
mystics of India have been copied and practiced the financial years yogis. (One of them,
Prince Muhammad Dara Shikoh, attempt to develop a mystical synthesis Indo-Islamic
Mahfuz-ul-Hak, Majma-ul-Bahrain or the mingling of the two Oceans, Calcutta, libraries
Indica, 1929.) The technique of dhikr has sometimes surprising formal analogy with the
Hindu discipline of breaths. Hughes (Dictionary of Islam, London, 1885, p. 703 et seq.)
Re-took the information that a priest of the border region had practiced ghana af-dhikr so
getting suspend breathing for nearly three hours. (Concerning the dhikr, see below.)
An interesting problem is raised by the hesychasm. Cer -
5 It is known that, according to some authors-and first Max Horten, Indische Strömung
Mystik in der islamischen (2 vol. Heidelberg 1927-28) - Sufism would have been a
powerful influence hindu. Louis Massignon mos-ing the exaggeration of this thesis (Essai
sur les origines du lexique technique de la vie mystique musulmane, Paris, 1922, pp. 63
and 80) and Mario Moreno has lately come to negative results regarding the importance