Cultivating stillness: a Taoist manual in Stellenbosch, Western Cape for sale

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Boeke - Tydskrifte
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Spirituality
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Equanimity, good health, peace of mind, and long life are the goals of the ancient Taoist tradition known as "internal alchemy," of which Cultivating Stillness is a key text. Written between the second and fifth centuries, the book is attributed to T'ai Shang Lao-chun?the legendary figure more widely known as Lao-Tzu, author of the Tao-te Ching . The accompanying commentary, written in the nineteenth century by Shui-ch'ing Tzu, explains the alchemical symbolism of the text and the methods for cultivating internal stillness of body and mind. A principal part of the Taoist canon for many centuries, Cultivating Stillness is still the first book studied by Taoist initiates today.
About the author (1992)
Eva Wong is an independent scholar and a practitioner of the Taoist arts of the Pre-Celestial Way and Complete Reality lineages. She has written and translated many books on Taoism and related topics, including A Master Course in Feng-Shui; Tales of the Taoist Immortals; The Tao of Health, Longevity, and Immortality; and The Shambhala Guide to Taoism.
Bibliographic information
Title Cultivating stillness: a Taoist manual for transforming body and mind
Authors Shui-ch'ing Tzu, Eva Wong
Photographs by Shui-ch'ing Tzu
Translated by Eva Wong
Contributors Shui-ch'ing Tzu, Eva Wong
Edition illustrated
Publisher Shambhala, 1992,Paperback
ISBN 0877736871, 9780877736875
Length 158 pages
Subjects Philosophy?General
Ch'ing ching ching
Qing jing jing
Religion / Taoism
Taoism