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  • Understanding and Applying Taoist History, Concepts, and Practices
  • By: Elizabeth Reninger
  • Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
  • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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Publisher's Summary

Begin your journey toward spiritual exploration and deepen your connection with the earth. Taoism for Beginners is your easy-to-understand guide to a rich, spiritual Chinese religion and a new holistic perspective.

Discover the core principles and traditions of Taoism with straightforward language and simple exercises you can do anywhere. Adopting aspects of Taoism into your everyday life can bring you into peace and harmony with yourself and the world around you - a practice that's more vital than ever in our busy modern-day lives.

Taoism for Beginners helps you:

  • Feel better and feel more - Build your own Taoist practice that can help you relax, de-stress, and feel more at ease in your life
  • Learn history and tradition - Meet Taoism's founder, Lao Tzu, and learn the basic history of Taoism practice for the past 2500 years
  • This book and beyond - Deepen your practice (if you wish) with included resources for further exploration and study

Explore the depth and breadth of Taoism in a clear format that you can apply to everything you do.

©2020 Rockridge Press (P)2021 Tantor

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Too dumbed-down for my liking

The attempt to describe Daoist/Taoist concepts to a westernised audience leaves me unsure of what is a core concept traditionally, and what is the author's simplification (aka technique being applied to support reader comprehension). I am not looking for a thesaurus providing long lists of suggested synonyms for Daoist terminology, nor expect cherry-picked meditation tool tips to in any way shed light on Daoist concepts.

It may assist some readers who appreciate the style where I do not! But I could not to ignore my mounting concern that the absence of necessary texture and complexity would probably only provide a warped impression of Daoism that will be difficult to later unlearn and correct.

This is at about halfway through the book.

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