Shambhala Publications

Editor's Preface Hua-Ching Ni is a Taoist master who has been teaching in the United States since 1976. He has devoted his Ufe to continuing a spiritual tradition transmitted through an unbroken succession of seventy-four generations of masters dating back to the Han dynasty (206 bce-220 ce)....

FOREWORD.Vlan, in order to escape his conflicts, has invented many forms of meditation. These have been based on desire, will and the urge for achievement and imply conflict and a struggle to arrive. This conscious, deliberate striving is always w^ithin the limits of a conditioned mind and in this...