Understanding Reality
A Taoist Alchemical Classic - With a Concise Commentary by Liu I-ming - Translated from the Chinese by Thomas Cleary
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
English, Chinese (translation)


A Taoist Alchemical Classic - With a Concise Commentary by Liu I-ming - Translated from the Chinese by Thomas Cleary
English, Chinese (translation)
Taoist inner alchemy is a collection of theories and practices for transforming the mind and refining the self. The Inner Teachings of Taoism includes a classic of Chinese alchemy known as Four Hundred Words on the Gold Elixir. Written in the eleventh century by a founder of the Complete Reality School, this text is accompanied by the lucid commentary of the nineteenth-century adept Lui I-ming.