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Immortality is an age-old dream of human beings. Ancient and modern people, East and West, confront the same dilemma — the absurdity of death and the loss of personal ego. For most of us, it is an unsettling thought …

Transcending the Human World and Attaining the Heavenly World

Here we concentrate on the practical and humanistic aspects of the ideal of a
sage (shengren) in Daoism, which reveal its paradoxicality or bi-directionality. The
analysis is based of some stories …

http://www2.kenyon.edu/depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Writings/Women.htm

Joseph A. Adler, Department of Religious Studies, Kenyon College

ASIANetwork Annual Meeting

Whittier, California April 23, 2005

Teaching the history of Chinese religions in a gender-balanced way involves a rather large number of variables. First, of course, there is …

http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeVI/Dao.htm#_edn93

Daoism, as the primary indigenous religion of China, is a highly esoteric tradition. Constructed of many different strands, over several thousand years, Daoism has a complex history of integrating various techniques of meditation, spirit communication, consciousness projection, bodily movements, …

Inside Chi Flows Naturally:

1. Essay on a secret Way to Heaven….while still living on
Earth. It’s a neat trick, “going” someplace new, more
formless – without leaving your old body. It boils down to a
practical question: how to …