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Authors: Tao Huang
ISBN-13: 9780893343255, ISBN-10: 0893343250
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Humanics Publishing Group
Date Published: August 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Tao Huang

Book Synopsis

Just as Buddhism is recognized as the teachings of Buddha, and Confucianism is a school of thought taught by Confucius, we now have an accurate and faithful word Laoism to describe the wisdom and teachings of Lao Zi.

Lao Zi left behind a treasure other than the Tao Te Ching, namely the Fourteen Character Couplet. This Couplet is the best representation of his two volume work, Tao and Te. It is the magic and talismanical description of Lao Zi s understanding of the Power of Tao and the Action of Te in his own creative Chinese characters. Each character represents a step, a stage, and state of one-being with the Tao and loving with the action of Self. All together, the Fourteen Character Couplet demonstrates one of the most concise and visual spiritual disciplines among all the traditions in the world. It is time to present this treasure to the public, and Laoism, the complete teachings of the Tao Te Ching and the Couplet, is the result.

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Part 1	The Descending Order: Tao	1
Step 1	Jade	3
	The Introduction of Value	3
	Body, the Troublesome Beauty	5
	Trapping in Justifying Body	8
	Oh, What a Body	9
	The Evergreen Jade-body	10
	Characteristic Representation	11
	Meditation Practice	13
Step 2	Body	17
	Understanding the Form	17
	Caldron--The Self-Germinating Cooking Vessel	20
	Recording the Cooking Vessel	21
	A Cultural Norm	22
	Historical Lesson	24
	The Inner Alchemists' Forming Trinity	25
	The Contribution of Three Cinnabar Fields	26
	An Expression of Body	28
	Meditation Practice	28
Step 3	Smelts	31
	The Ecological Structure of the Character	31
	Lao Zi on Water	34
	The Prime and Combustion of Water and Fire	35
	The Practical Value of Water and Fire	38
	A Hope for Life	40
	Utilizing Water and Fire Within	41
	Meditation Practice	42
Step 4	Chemically	45
	The Picture of Five Elements	45
	The Minerals of Modern Society	48
	Minding the Minerals	50
	Minding in Organic-Mind	50
	The Practical Value of the Character	51
	The Extinction of Five Thieves	52
	Transforming the Five Thieves into Selfless Love	54
	Meditation Practice	55
Step 5	Life	59
	The Designative Ming	59
	The Power of Order	61
	The Rising of the Conscious Second Thought	63
	The Empty Xing	64
	Characteristic Representation	66
	Presence of Flowing	69
	The Beauty of this Character	71
	The True Instinctive Behavior	75
	The True Spiritual Instinct	76
	How Long Should the Will Be, Really!	78
	Meditation Practice	78
Step 6	Perennial	83
	The Meaning of Perennial	83
	The Perennial Spirit	86
	The Three Bodies We Have	88
	Working Through with No Opposition	89
	Lao Zi on Opposition	91
	What Life Teaches Us	93
	The True Meaning of Knowing	94
	The Mystery of Perennial	95
	Biblical Answers to Laoist's Character	97
	Realization Upon Perennial	99
	The Alchemical History of the Perennial Life Force	100
	Meditation Practice	100
Step 7	Pill	103
	The Nature and Triple-Function of Spirit	103
	What is This Life Pill	109
	The Mechanism of Self-Water	111
	From Oceanic Water to Cloudy Elixir	113
	Beyond Science	114
	A Comparative View of Water	117
	Embodied Water	119
	What is this Water-Qi-Pill	121
	Laoist's Position on This Water-Qi-Pill	122
	Meditation Practice	123
Part 2	The Ascending Order: Te	125
Step 8	Right	127
	The Antithetical Beauty of Chinese Language	127
	The Characteristics of Laoist Couplet	129
	A Word on Right	129
	Where Did Lao Zi Go Afterward	130
	A Religious History on the Character Zheng	131
	A Historical Understanding of Zheng-yi	133
	What Means Right	133
	Jade or Chlorophyll	135
	Where Does the Green Qing Stand in Our Body	137
	The Clarity of Qing: Water Plus Green	138
	The Motion of Qing: Heart Plus Green	139
	The Sound of Qing: Speech Plus Green	140
	The Position of Right	141
	A Word on Emotional Qing--The Drive	141
	Laoist Further Advice	142
	Meditation Practice	144
Step 9	Mind	147
	Tao: Everything Right Rises and Returns	147
	Before the Secrecy of Stealing	152
	Involutionary Tao	154
	Evolutionary Fusion of the Tao	155
	Spiritual Action of the Tao	156
	The Tao in The Couplet	158
	What is Tao	162
	Tao and Nature	163
	Naming the Nameless Tao	165
	The Tao of Mind	167
	Meditation Practice	169
Step 10	Cultivates	173
	Where is the Conscious Inch-Size Tao	173
	The Characteristic Representation	174
	The Two-Way Journey of Following	178
	The Origin of Heart	182
	Animal Spirits	185
	Celestial Spirits in Animal Form	192
	Behind the Science	193
	Taming the Heart	194
	Meditation Practice	196
Step 11	Faithfully	199
	Faithful Heart	199
	Man's Way vs. Nature's Way	201
	The Characteristic Representation	203
	The Meaning of Success	205
	Between Realization and Actualization	210
	Between Wish and Hope	211
	The Content of Faith	212
	On Trustworthy Speech	215
	The Faithful Practice on Selfhood Tao	216
	What Faith Means in the Art of Healing	217
	Meditation Practice	217
Step 12	Immortal	221
	The Structural Content of Immortality	221
	The Faith That Transforms	222
	What the Faith Lives Upon--The Trustful Oneness	224
	Characteristic Representation	226
	Well, the Hollowing Well	228
	Well, Well, Spiritual Well	230
	The Nature of Holy Water	233
	The Magic Play of Holy-Water-Tao	235
	The True Object for Enhancement	241
	Meditation Practice	241
Step 13	Self	245
	The Characteristic Representation	245
	The Literal Application	249
	Conscious Dying Practice	252
	What Does "Not to be Forgotten" Mean	256
	Why "Employ the Tao of Today?"	258
	Reserving the Climaxing Mentality	259
	Tao and Aging	263
	Meditation Practice	265
Step 14	Elixir	269
	Liberating the Man Within	269
	The Resolution of the Man Within	270
	Understanding the Spiritual Pregnancy	272
	Tao and Qi	274
	Laoism on Machine-Qi	278
	Qi Must Be Sold	280
	Individual is Qi	281
	Establishing a Spiritual Family	284
	Entering the Eternal Home	286
	Choose to Die	286
	Final Launch	288
	Character Representation	289
	Meditation Practice	290

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