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The Great Tao

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This is an excellent book on various aspects of Taoism. This book and its approach is quite different from most books on Taoist techniques that I have read. Dr Chang keeps most of the dialouge on a practical level of usefull information, instead of a going into the airy-fairy approcaches used by some "Taoist" writers. My only objections in Dr Changs books is his attempt to tie in Christianity to Taoism. I suspect that he did this simply to have a greater appeal to Western readers, as not to be to "alien" Outside of the one distraction, I highly recomend this book for people studying the TAO.

Most of the old Taoist arts are described in this book. He uses the chinese BaGua symbol or the 8 trigrams to structure the book. Heaven trigram for Philosophy, fire trigram for sexuality et cetera. (not in this order) You can find other books on all of these arts that will do the same, but why not get it all in one book. He has written other books on some of these subjects that are more in depth. But if you read this book first you will have a good concept of them all from this one.
One bad thing is that some arts are just described in a few pages - leaving you to spend hours in dusty corners of bookstores and long nigths at Amazon.com to find some other book on this subject. Arts like 108 star astrology, facial interpretation and feng shui. You will find most of this books contents on the authors website http://thegreattao.com
This book comes in top 3 on my reading list.

This book is impossible to put down. I read it through as quickly as I could because it is amazing the amount of information that's in it and the book is not very big. Thanks for writing it.

The sexual organs/system is described as a means to acquire/maintain good health through meridians.

An excellent beginners practice as well as recommend to seniors and physical rehabilitation training.

Suggest prescription by physician for post-surgical cardiovascular rehabilitation and maintenance.