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• Archive: This book is an expansion of Seven Steps to the Dao (1987).
• It outlines the history and intricacies of zuowang, an essential form of Daoist meditation.
• It divides into two parts.
• “Discussion” begins by placing the practice in the larger context of the phenomenology of meditation and Chinese religious history.
• It then has eight chapters, discussing historical forerunners in pre-Han and Twofold Mystery texts, Tang masters and main works, the theory and practice of Tang Daoist meditation, and its relation to Buddhism and modern science.