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FOUNDATIONS OF TAOIST PRACTICE
by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart
When you try to define Taoism, you immediately run into trouble. The great Taoist philosopher and author of the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu, begins his first chapter with the warning words:

The Tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

Thus Westerners are not the only ones who have a hard time defining Taoism; the Chinese have had a difficult time agreeing on just what Taoism is for millenia. Taoism is sometimes defined as a ritualistic religion, as a philosophy, as Chinese folk religion, as alchemy, as a system of magical lore, or as a series of health practices similar to yoga. The adherants of each school often look with disdain on the others as being heterodoxy, heresy, or simply incomplete portions of the great Tao.

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Medical Qigong: A Vital Branch of Oriental Medicine
by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart, Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM), M.S.O.M., Lic. Ac.

INTRODUCTION

Early Qigong History
Like the Dineh or Navajo people of the southwestern United States, the ancient Chinese saw disease and natural disasters as signs that an individual or a tribe of people had fallen out of harmony with Nature. The cure for the Navajo was to reestablish a correct relationship with Nature, with society, and within the individual through ceremony, including sand paintings, chants, prayers and dances.

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