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.

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