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BL21 Greater Kan & LiSomewhere in the Heavens is the North Star. Looking at the sky atnight, one would see it past the top stars of the bowl of the BigDipper. It lies almost directly above the North Pole, with the Earthangled at 23.5 degrees towards it. To navigators, it appears as afixed point in the sky, serving as a reliable reference in their travels.It is just one of the myriad stars, rather insignificant and ordinary,but to the Taoists it is the Center, unmoving while all the rest of theconstellations revolve around it. It is called by different names—Tian Shu, Tai Yi, the Great One, the Purple Rose, even Zi Gong, theDwelling Place of the Immortals, because it is believed by the Tao-ists to be the Gateway to Heaven.If there is a universe up there, there is one in the body too. To theChinese, the body is a microcosm of the universe. “As above, sobelow.” Whatever happens up there happens down here. Hence,the physical body is marked with gridlines of energy and meridiansof light around a Center, with different body parts equated with plan-ets and the zodiac. The Center in the body is called Tan Tien, or“field of energy”.The idea of a Central Axis—the Polestar in the firmament an

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Author

Mantak Chia; Maneewan Chia; Renu Li

Publisher

Universal Tao Publications

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780935621488

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Other Religions