Introduction -- The water tradition of Taoist meditation -- Breathing and body awareness -- Body alignments for sitting meditation -- Blockages : recognizing the four conditions -- The dissolving method : a process of letting go -- Deepening your dissolving practice -- The descending current of chi : from heaven to earth -- How to train the monkey mind -- Dissolving emotions and shock -- Dissolving fog and depression -- Ten thousand agendas and the greatest poverty in existence -- Anxiety : the disease of the modern age -- Anger and frustration as agendas -- Fear as an agenda -- Pain as an agenda -- Love and compassion