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Contents

Note on the e-Book Edition

Romanized Chinese

Laozi and Zhuangzi

1. The First Moon

Spring Festival

1 The Old Child

4 Humility’s Fire

9 The Leader Sage

11 Have You Eaten Yet?

13 Warrior Loyalty

Lantern Festival

16 Who’s Guarding?

17 Gates and Locks

18 Vanishing Point

20 Gateway to Mystery

22 Purification

23 A Drop Starts a Cycle

25 Reason and Spirit

26 The Edge of Doubt

27 Two Ways of Learning

28 The Goal of Returning

30 Riding the Tide

2. The Apricot Moon

32 The Local Land

33 Words in the Sun

35 No Separation

36 Sacred Mountains

38 Greater Than Shame

39 What Do You Leave?

40 The Inner Landscape

41 The Outer Landscape

42 Where Do the Birds Fly?

43 Sage of the Flood

46 Eternal Spring

47 Clearing the Field

48 The Water Buffalo

50 The Worn Broom

53 Energy and Intention

54 Confronting Limitations

57 Nothing Is Static

58 Meditation Is Movement

59 Change the Feedback

60 We Are All Children

3. The Peach Moon

Clear Bright Festival

61 Clear Bright

62 Returning the Dead Home

63 Bring Belief with You

65 Leaf, Bird, Song

66 Before and After

67 Worse Things

68 Inheriting Power

69 Filial Piety

72 The Servant Boy

73 No Longer an Outsider

74 Villain and Poet?

75 Warrior Goddess

76 Be a Liberator

78 Heaven, Earth, and Hell

80 A Bowl of Rice

81 The Rice Paddle

Mother Ancestor

83 Goddess of the Sea

84 Not the Middle Kingdom

85 Under Heaven

87 Inside Knows the Outside

88 Neither Lost nor Gained

89 Work and Strive

90 The Peach Blossom Spring

4. The Plum Moon

92 Let Go of Fear

93 Push, Pull, Open

94 Form Equals Emptiness

95 The Householder

96 What We Carry

97 How Dull Hell Is

Cheung Chau Bun Festival

Sakyamuni Buddha

98 Plowing to Bliss

99 There Is a Way

100 Body and Spirit

103 Caring for Children

The Eight Immortals

104 Yellow Millet Dream

105 Warrior, Retire

107 One Meditation

108 Moving Exercise

109 Teaching Fear

110 What’s Repeated

111 Renounce “Sageliness”

113 Small Fasts

115 Recovery from Illness

117 Best Practice

120 Discern the Fundamental

5. The Pomegranate Moon

The God of Longevity

123 A Sincere Heart

124 Golden Serenity

Dragon Boat Festival

125 Spiritual Politics

128 Without Divining

129 Qu Yuan’s Fisherman

130 Confucius’s Fisherman

131 Questioning Heaven

132 A Poem’s Power

133 Ancient Cities

134 All Within the Four Seas

135 Approaching the Zenith

SUMMER SOLSTICE

136 Summer Solstice

137 Perseverance to Mastery

138 Do Nothing, Do Everything

139 The Charm of Loss

141 The Straight Hook

142 Five Bushels of Rice

143 Escaping the Net

144 Zhuangzi’s Cook

146 The Woodcutter

147 Loving Flowers

148 Regal Wealth

149 Spirit Mediums

150 The True Person

6. The Lotus Moon

151 Declaration

152 Throw Everything Out!

153 The Rivers and Lakes

154 Tao Is a Circle

155 Add Back In

156 Refuse the Gods

157 Reject False Filial Piety

158 Spirituality Now

159 Grasp a Sword

160 The Blade Leads the Breath

162 Early Tools

God of Carpenters

163 I Am the Dragon

165 Honor of Ownership

167 The Garden Gate

170 Rubble, Stumps, and Thicket

171 Trees, Rock, and Moss

176 Capturing a Dragon

179 Earth Takes Back All Ruins

180 The Garden Path

7. The Orchid Moon

181 Acting Without Acting

182 Be a Sage, Then Be Yourself

183 True Masters

186 The Great Person

Double Seven Festival

187 Sacred Love

188 Two Butterflies

189 The Sound of Waves

190 Needing a Body

191 Banyan Roots

192 White Snake

193 The Heart Has No Bounds

195 Feeding Ghosts

196 Liquid Sunshine

Queen Mother of the West

198 The Traveler Returns Home

200 The Old Trees

201 The Waterfall Pool

202 Tearing Down the Wall

203 The Typhoon

204 The Vantage Point

205 Seeing the Beginning

207 The Fish Skeleton

208 Sea and Shore

209 Sleeping Face

210 Crying for Dead Children

8. The Osthmanthus Moon

211 White Dew: Tears

213 Daily Resolve

214 The Circle’s Center

215 Beside the Highway

216 The Wheelbarrow

217 Black and White

218 Growing Old

219 Going to Fusang

220 Mountain Offering

222 The Black-Haired People

223 The Swinging Footbridge

224 Transcendent Drunkenness

226 Taming the Monkey

227 Wisher of Warmth

228 Flowing Backward

229 The Spring-Fed Barrel

230 Autumn Winds

231 The Wine Bowl

232 Old Man in the Courtyard

233 Immortal Shepherd

234 Imagination

236 Outside the Gates

237 Holding Up One Corner

238 Get Back Up

239 The Wisdom of Silence

240 Gods Who Come to Earth

9. The Chrysanthemum Moon

241 The Moon Is Like a Bow

242 Morning Song

244 Reverberation

245 Every Part of the Pattern

247 For the Pilgrims

248 Chrysanthemums

Double Nine Festival

249 From the Terrace

250 I Once Worshipped . . .

251 Gone but Still Here

252 Counting Outward

253 What Do We Have to Give?

254 Why Do We Rescue?

255 One Religion from Many

257 The Containers

258 All Parts Make the Whole

259 Awakening Compassion

260 Lady at the Water’s Edge

263 What Is It?

264 One Stroke After Another

265 The Artist and Audience

266 The Old Artist

267 “I Can’t Draw”

268 What Is Meant to Be?

269 A Mind, Used Correctly

10. The Excellent Moon

271 Burning Paper Offerings

272 Gods Once Human

273 Living Forever

274 Devotion and Naivete

275 Eyes That Never Close

276 All the Teachers

277 Explaining Meaning

278 What Can You Keep?

279 Living with Mystery

280 Aging Is Tao

282 Without Knowing the Whole

283 Going Back to Go Forward

284 Constant Mixing

286 We Make Our World

287 What’s Possible?

288 What Meditation Can’t Do

289 Five Hundred Luohans

290 Bringing Others Along

291 Pure Simplicity

292 The Scribe’s Lament

294 Hold It Close

295 Keep Moving

296 Cutting Rocks

297 Fixing True North

298 Lifelong Creation

300 Think Small, Think Big

11. The Winter Moon

301 Sitting Alone

302 Why Are We Spiritual?

303 The Spiritual Impulse

304 The Ongoing Dream

305 Our Beliefs Must Change

306 Climb the Mountain

307 Don’t Trust Teachers Fully

308 Do We Still Need Gods?

309 Is Abuse Refutation?

310 The Temple Medium

311 Great One, One Great

312 Needed Archetypes

313 Where We Stand

314 No Magical Thinking

315 The Right Self-Knowledge

WINTER SOLSTICE

Winter Solstice Festival

316 The Darkest Day

317 The Calico-Bag Luohan

318 Finding Solitude

319 Light Has No Form

320 The Magnifying Glass

322 You’re the Ruler

323 Words and Pictures

324 White Light

325 Bank and Store

326 Find Your Own Rhythm

327 The Boulder

328 The Scissors

329 The Dance Is the Dancer

330 Follow Nature

12. The Last Moon

332 Is It Just a Road?

333 The Narrow Path

334 A Song Few Know

335 Serenity in the World

336 Plain and Ordinary

337 No Chosen One

338 Winter Sacrifice

339 Confucianism or Taoism?

341 Past, Present, and Future

343 To Be Balanced

344 Hold the Middle

345 The Flying Geese

346 When the Wind Stops

347 Faith and Courage

349 No Longer Rushing

350 Preparation Makes Fortune

351 Yin, Yang, and the Moon

352 Complete Reality

353 The Inner Kitchen God

355 Nothing Lasts

357 Breath in Winter

358 The Crying Baby

359 The Violet Lady

New Year’s Eve

The Five Phases

Dynasties and Republics

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