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100 1 $aDeng, Ming-Dao.
245 14 $aThe lunar Tao :$bmeditations with the seasons /$cDeng Ming Dao.
246 14 $aMeditations in harmony with the seasons
264 1 $aNew York :$bHarperOne,$c[2013]
300 $axxxi, 429 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $aProvides a series of Taoist meditations structured around the Chinese lunar calendar as well as facts about festivals and traditions important to the Taoist faith.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1.The First Moon -- Spring Festival -- Spring Begins -- Exercise 1 -- 1.The Old Child -- 2.The Cord -- 3.Dodge Danger -- 4.Humility's Fire -- 5.Wealth -- 6.Prayer -- 7.Unity -- 8.The Source -- 9.The Leader Sage -- 10.Offering -- 11.Have You Eaten Yet? -- 12.Friendship -- 13.Warrior Loyalty -- 14.Preparation -- Lantern Festival -- 15.The Lantern -- Rain Water -- Exercise 2 -- 16.Who's Guarding? -- 17.Gates and Locks -- 18.Vanishing Point -- 19.Inclusion -- 20.Gateway to Mystery -- 21.Exchange -- 22.Purification -- 23.A Drop Starts a Cycle -- 24.Verify -- 25.Reason and Spirit -- 26.The Edge of Doubt -- 27.Two Ways of Learning -- 28.The Goal of Returning -- 29.Values -- 30.Riding the Tide -- 2.The Apricot Moon -- Insects Awaken -- Exercise 3 -- 31.The Sun -- 32.The Local Land -- 33.Words in the Sun -- 34.The Pattern -- 35.No Separation -- 36.Sacred Mountains -- 37.Pilgrimage -- 38.Greater Than Shame -- 39.What Do You Leave? --
505 0 $aContents note continued: 40.The Inner Landscape -- 41.The Outer Landscape -- 42.Where Do the Birds Fly? -- 43.Sage of the Flood -- 44.Awaken -- 45.Constant -- Spring Equinox -- Exercise 4 -- 46.Eternal Spring -- 47.Clearing the Field -- 48.The Water Buffalo -- Guanyin -- 49.Compassion -- 50.The Worn Broom -- 51.The Temple -- 52.The Way -- 53.Energy and Intention -- 54.Confronting Limitations -- 55.Ask -- 56.Destiny -- 57.Nothing Is Static -- 58.Meditation Is Movement -- 59.Change the Feedback -- 60.We Are All Children -- 3.The Peach Moon -- Clear Bright Festival -- Clear Bright -- Exercise 5 -- 61.Clear Bright -- 62.Returning the Dead Home -- 63.Bring Belief with You -- 64.Customs -- 65.Leaf, Bird, Song -- 66.Before and After -- 67.Worse Things -- 68.Inheriting Power -- 69.Filial Piety -- 70.Tears -- 71.Handwriting -- 72.The Servant Boy -- 73.No Longer an Outsider -- 74.Villain and Poet? -- 75.Warrior Goddess -- Grain Rains -- Exercise 6 -- 76.Be a Liberator -- 77.Grain --
505 0 $aContents note continued: 78.Heaven, Earth, and Hell -- 79.Sunrise -- 80.A Bowl of Rice -- 81.The Rice Paddle -- 82.Both Hands -- Mother Ancestor -- 83.Goddess of the Sea -- 84.Not the Middle Kingdom -- 85.Under Heaven -- 86.The Earth -- 87.Inside Knows the Outside -- 88.Neither Lost nor Gained -- 89.Work and Strive -- 90.The Peach Blossom Spring -- 4.The Plum Moon -- Summer Begins -- Exercise 7 -- 91.Disarm -- 92.Let Go of Fear -- 93.Push, Pull, Open -- 94.Form Equals Emptiness -- 95.The Householder -- 96.What We Carry -- 97.How Dull Hell Is -- Cheung Chau Bun Festival -- Sakyamuni Buddha -- 98.Plowing to Bliss -- 99.There Is a Way -- 100.Body and Spirit -- 101.Culture -- 102.Fragility -- 103.Caring for Children -- The Eight Immortals -- 104.Yellow Millet Dream -- 105.Warrior, Retire -- Grain Fills -- Exercise 8 -- 106.One by One -- 107.One Meditation -- 108.Moving Exercise -- 109.Teaching Fear -- 110.What's Repeated -- 111.Renounce "Sageliness" -- 112.Clouds --
505 0 $aContents note continued: 113.Small Fasts -- 114.Addictions -- 115.Recovery from Illness -- 116.The Vine -- 117.Best Practice -- 118.Elite -- 119.Innovate -- 120.Discern the Fundamental -- 5.The Pomegranate Moon -- Ears Of Grain -- Exercise 9 -- The God of Longevity -- 121.Long Life -- 122.Gratitude -- 123.A Sincere Heart -- 124.Golden Serenity -- Dragon Boat Festival -- 125.Spiritual Politics -- 126.Failure -- 127.Speak Up -- 128.Without Divining -- 129.Qu Yuan's Fisherman -- 130.Confucius's Fisherman -- 131.Questioning Heaven -- 132.A Poem's Power -- 133.Ancient Cities -- 134.All Within the Four Seas -- 135.Approaching the Zenith -- Summer Solstice -- Exercise 10 -- 136.Summer Solstice -- 137.Perseverance to Mastery -- 138.Do Nothing, Do Everything -- 139.The Charm of Loss -- 140.Intensity -- 141.The Straight Hook -- 142.Five Bushels of Rice -- 143.Escaping the Net -- 144.Zhuangzi's Cook -- 145.No Butcher -- 146.The Woodcutter -- 147.Loving Flowers -- 148.Regal Wealth --
505 0 $aContents note continued: 149.Spirit Mediums -- 150.The True Person -- 6.The Lotus Moon -- Slight Heat -- Exercise 11 -- 151.Declaration -- 152.Throw Everything Out! -- 153.The Rivers and Lakes -- 154.Tao Is a Circle -- 155.Add Back In -- 156.Refuse the Gods -- 157.Reject False Filial Piety -- 158.Spirituality Now -- 159.Grasp a Sword -- 160.The Blade Leads the Breath -- 161.Sinking -- 162.Early Tools -- God of Carpenters -- 163.I Am the Dragon -- 164.On Art -- 165.Honor of Ownership -- Great Heat -- Exercise 12 -- 166.The Garden -- 167.The Garden Gate -- 168.Flags -- 169.Solitude -- 170.Rubble, Stumps, and Thicket -- 171.Trees, Rock, and Moss -- 172.Light -- 173.Horses -- 174.The Lotus -- 175.Carefree -- 176.Capturing a Dragon -- 177.Enjoyment -- 178.Tea -- 179.Earth Takes Back All Ruins -- 180.The Garden Path -- 7.The Orchid Moon -- Autumn Begins -- Exercise 13 -- 181.Acting Without Acting -- 182.Be a Sage, Then Be Yourself -- 183.True Masters -- 184.The Gulls --
505 0 $aContents note continued: 185.The Grove -- 186.The Great Person -- Double Seven Festival -- 187.Sacred Love -- 188.Two Butterflies -- 189.The Sound of Waves -- 190.Needing a Body -- 191.Banyan Roots -- 192.White Snake -- 193.The Heart Has No Bounds -- 194.Foreign -- Ghost Festival -- 195.Feeding Ghosts -- Limit Of Heat -- Exercise 14 -- 196.Liquid Sunshine -- 197.Dream -- Queen Mother of the West -- 198.The Traveler Returns Home -- 199.The Canal -- 200.The Old Trees -- 201.The Waterfall Pool -- 202.Tearing Down the Wall -- 203.The Typhoon -- 204.The Vantage Point -- 205.Seeing the Beginning -- 206.The Beach -- 207.The Fish Skeleton -- 208.Sea and Shore -- 209.Sleeping Face -- 210.Crying for Dead Children -- 8.The Osthmanthus Moon -- White Dew -- Exercise 15 -- 211.White Dew: Tears -- 212.The Bell -- 213.Daily Resolve -- 214.The Circle's Center -- 215.Beside the Highway -- 216.The Wheelbarrow -- 217.Black and White -- 218.Growing Old -- 219.Going to Fusang --
505 0 $aContents note continued: 220.Mountain Offering -- 221.Sunset -- 222.The Black-Haired People -- 223.The Swinging Footbridge -- 224.Transcendent Drunkenness -- Moon Festival -- 225.Moon Tao -- Autumn Equinox -- Exercise 16 -- Monkey King -- 226.Taming the Monkey -- 227.Wisher of Warmth -- 228.Flowing Backward -- 229.The Spring-Fed Barrel -- 230.Autumn Winds -- 231.The Wine Bowl -- 232.Old Man in the Courtyard -- 233.Immortal Shepherd -- 234.Imagination -- 235.The Window -- 236.Outside the Gates -- 237.Holding Up One Corner -- 238.Get Back Up -- 239.The Wisdom of Silence -- 240.Gods Who Come to Earth -- 9.The Chrysanthemum Moon -- Cold Dew -- Exercise 17 -- 241.The Moon Is Like a Bow -- 242.Morning Song -- 243.Resonance -- 244.Reverberation -- 245.Every Part of the Pattern -- 246.The Storm -- 247.For the Pilgrims -- 248.Chrysanthemums -- Double Nine Festival -- 249.From the Terrace -- 250.I Once Worshipped... -- 251.Gone but Still Here -- 252.Counting Outward --
505 0 $aContents note continued: 253.What Do We Have to Give? -- 254.Why Do We Rescue? -- 255.One Religion from Many -- Frost Descends -- Exercise 18 -- 256.Our Web -- 257.The Containers -- 258.All Parts Make the Whole -- 259.Awakening Compassion -- 260.Lady at the Water's Edge -- 261.Skepticism -- 262.Ink Drop -- 263.What Is It? -- 264.One Stroke After Another -- 265.The Artist and Audience -- 266.The Old Artist -- 267."I Can't Draw" -- 268.What Is Meant to Be? -- 269.A Mind, Used Correctly -- 270.A Cold Hue -- 10.The Excellent Moon -- Winter Begins -- Exercise 19 -- 271.Burning Paper Offerings -- 272.Gods Once Human -- 273.Living Forever -- 274.Devotion and Naivete -- Bodhidharma -- 275.Eyes That Never Close -- 276.All the Teachers -- 277.Explaining Meaning -- 278.What Can You Keep? -- 279.Living with Mystery -- 280.Aging Is Tao -- 281.Choices -- 282.Without Knowing the Whole -- 283.Going Back to Go Forward -- 284.Constant Mixing -- 285.Be Water -- Slight Snow -- Exercise 20 --
505 0 $aContents note continued: 286.We Make Our World -- 287.What's Possible? -- 288.What Meditation Can't Do -- 289.Five Hundred Luohans -- 290.Bringing Others Along -- 291.Pure Simplicity -- 292.The Scribe's Lament -- 293.Burning -- 294.Hold It Close -- 295.Keep Moving -- 296.Cutting Rocks -- 297.Fixing True North -- 298.Lifelong Creation -- 299.Pruning -- 300.Think Small, Think Big -- 11.The Winter Moon -- Great Snow -- Exercise 21 -- 301.Sitting Alone -- 302.Why Are We Spiritual? -- 303.The Spiritual Impulse -- 304.The Ongoing Dream -- 305.Our Beliefs Must Change -- 306.Climb the Mountain -- 307.Don't Trust Teachers Fully -- 308.Do We Still Need Gods? -- 309.Is Abuse Refutation? -- 310.The Temple Medium -- 311.Great One, One Great -- 312.Needed Archetypes -- 313.Where We Stand -- 314.No Magical Thinking -- 315.The Right Self-Knowledge -- Winter Solstice -- Exercise 22 -- Winter Solstice Festival -- 316.The Darkest Day -- 317.The Calico-Bag Luohan -- 318.Finding Solitude --
505 0 $aContents note continued: 319.Light Has No Form -- 320.The Magnifying Glass -- 321.Advice -- 322.You're the Ruler -- 323.Words and Pictures -- 324.White Light -- 325.Bank and Store -- 326.Find Your Own Rhythm -- 327.The Boulder -- 328.The Scissors -- 329.The Dance Is the Dancer -- 330.Follow Nature -- 12.The Last Moon -- Slight Cold -- Exercise 23 -- 331.Lifeboats -- 332.Is It Just a Road? -- 333.The Narrow Path -- 334.A Song Few Know -- 335.Serenity in the World -- 336.Plain and Ordinary -- 337.No Chosen One -- Laba Festival -- 338.Winter Sacrifice -- 339.Confucianism or Taoism? -- 340.Enough -- 341.Past, Present, and Future -- 342.Evergreen -- 343.To Be Balanced -- 344.Hold the Middle -- 345.The Flying Geese -- Great Cold -- Exercise 24 -- 346.When the Wind Stops -- 347.Faith and Courage -- 348.Seeking -- 349.No Longer Rushing -- 350.Preparation Makes Fortune -- 351.Yin, Yang, and the Moon -- 352.Complete Reality -- 353.The Inner Kitchen God -- 354.Farewells --
505 0 $aContents note continued: 355.Nothing Lasts -- 356.Slowing -- 357.Breath in Winter -- 358.The Crying Baby -- 359.The Violet Lady -- New Year's Eve -- 360.Eve -- The Five Phases -- 361.Wood -- 362.Fire -- 363.Earth -- 364.Metal -- 365.Water.
650 0 $aTaoist meditations.
650 0 $aTaoism.
650 0 $aCalendar, Chinese.
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