It is virtually impossible to distinguish the Daoist understanding of the body from its understanding of the human being, and this point constitutes on its own a central aspect of the Daoist way of seeing. For a Daoist, knowledge of the anatomic forms and the physiological workings of the body, or any of its parts and organs, is virtually irrelevant. The physical body performs another function: it serves to support different sets of metaphors that express the relation of the whole person to the Dao, the ultimate principle to which the person owes its existence. Thanks to prof.Fabrizio Pregadio https://academia.edu/6950136/The_Alchemical_Body_in_Daoism
Posted on: Sun, 04 May 2014 07:46:08 +0000
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