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  <title><![CDATA[Scholar Warrior: An Introduction to the Tao in Everyday Life]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;In this beautifully illustrated offering of ancient wisdom, Deng Ming-Dao shares the secrets of the spiritual path handed down to him by Kwan Saihung, his Taoist master, as well as by herbalists, martial artists, and other practitioners of the ancient arts. Deng shows how Taoist philosophy and practice may be integrated into contemporary Western lifestyles for complete physical, mental, and spiritual health. He provides an abundance of philosophical and practical information about hygiene, diet, sexuality, physical exercise, meditation, medicine, finding one's purpose in life, finding the right teacher, death, and transcendence.&lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1990</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one that is hard to review. Like all eastern philosophy,it's full of good pointers and clarity on the tao of life, but don't expect to follow the instuctions easily- very hard work to become scholar warrior grasshopper.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scholar Warrior: An Introduction to the Tao in Everyday Life by Ming-dao Deng (1990)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the Chronicles of Tao by the same author...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book covers some history, beliefs, exercises, diet and meditations, it has a lot of information to give people a better idea of how to practice taoism.  Worth the read for those that wants a more indepth look at taoism. A good next step after the Tao Te Ching.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[good overview of one practitioners ideas on Taoism. contains a lot of good ideas. i enjoyed the book quite a bit when i read it, but it's not on my to-reread list.]]></body>
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