Bathing (Taoism)

A relaxation of intensive effort in spiritual practice. This process prevents excess of striving in meditation from resulting in counterproductive impulses such as eagerness or unbalanced force. This process may be related to, or distinguished from, that of "washing the mind". This is the process of cleaning concentration of mental contaminants that may be retained or even exaggerated in the effort to focus the mind on something else. This process may be a stage in any cyclic meditation process.