Dear Tao Garden Friends,

In June we started the Darkness Review, an Electronic Magazine for the Darkness Retreats. As the 2008 Darkness Retreats are nearing, we would like to introduce you to this new feature. The magazine is meant foremost to help participants prepare for their Darkness Retreat and for all those interested in Taoist Meditation and related topics. We especially invite participants of the Tao Garden Darkness Retreats to contribute articles to this magazine.

You will also find information there on what is special in the 2008 Darkness Retreats:

• "Sealing of the Five Senses" which Master Chia will be teaching in week 4
• Special Meditation Techniques and advanced Fusion
• Taoist as well as Sanskrit and Buddhist Chanting, which will be offered during all four Retreats
• There will be periods of Silence during all Darkness Retreats

You will also find the first 'featured article', which is about Buddhist Meditation in a Thai cave. Maybe in the future your article will be featured?

You will also find a link to download some manuals and articles, primarily as a service to newcomers, who wish to do some upreading on Darkness & Taoist Inner Alchemy. There will be more articles there in the future.

Tao Garden Darkness Retreat
February 3 - March 1. 2008

Week 1: February 3 (Sunday) through February 9 (Saturday) Lesser Kan & Li Retreat
Week 2: February 10 (Sunday) through February 16 (Saturday) Greater Kan & Li Retreat
Week 3: February 17 (Sunday) through February 23 (Saturday) Greatest Kan & Li Retreat
Week 4: February 24 (Sunday) through March 1 (Saturday) Sealing of the 5 Senses

For Darkness Retreat registration, please click

We hope you will enjoy this new web facility and we look forward to "seeing" you at the Darkness Retreats in 2008.

May the Chi be with you,
Tao Garden Production Team