The Taoist experience : an anthology / Livia Kohn.
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
©1993.
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| Series: | SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- The Tao. The Tao that can't be told ; The Tao in the world ; Pure and tranquil ; Ineffable knowledge.
- Creation. Scriptures create the universe ; Numinous treasure
- wondrous history ; The lands of the immortals ; Gods and goddesses.
- The teaching. The three caverns ; The transformations of Laozi ; The path ; The way to complete perfection.
- Discipline. Precepts and prescriptions ; Protective measures ; How to be taught ; Passing the test.
- Physical practices. Breathing for life ; Gymnastics ; Drugs and diets ; Sexual techniques.
- The cosmic body. The structure of the body ; The body as the world ; The world in the body ; The gods within.
- The one. Lights in the body ; The true one ; The three ones ; One in all.
- Insight practice. Two kinds of observations ; Energies and elixirs ; Observing life ; Glimpses of the new mind.
- Ecstatic excursions. The far-off journey ; Trips through the stars ; Divine loves ; Ecstatic sleep.
- Immortal personality. The perfected ; To be a sage ; Magical powers ; The virtue of wine.
- Ascension. Alchemical transformation ; The inner elixir ; Gradual dissolution ; Eyewitness accounts.
- Immortal life. Celestial garb ; The administration of heaven ; Sojourn among mortals ; Feasting in paradise.
- List of Chinese texts translated.