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I will say that the lack of sources and citations in this book is mildly concerning, but everything in this book basically corresponds to what I know about Daoism already, so I have no reason to believe that the information is bad

"The ancient Chinese described the birth transition as 'a ripe melon falling off the stem,' noting that the fetus breaks out of its amniotic sac and emerges head first towards the earth and with its feet towards the heavens."

Now that I'm past the introduction, we're getting into some intensely interesting material that is really validating what I've observed from my Buddhist practice. The parallels are undeniable--Daoism and Buddhism obviously share an ontological foundation (albeit with different terminology). If they didn't, then the historical syncretism between the two religions simply wouldn't exist.

I'm sort of trying to speed read through this book because it's very long. It's interesting stuff but I'm looking forward to getting into some of the actual magical material of Daoism. An understanding of TCM is foundational to those practices though, so here we are reading through this textbook