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Daoism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Become perfected beings
      - Fasting to achieve flight to the stars
    - - Purification emphasis
        
        Communal renewal via cleansing body
        
        Purify heart-mind via confession
      - Communal feasts
      - Deities invited to earth
  - - - Monastic community based on Buddhist influence (White Cloud Abbey in Beijing)
      - Pragmatic understanding of immortality
      - Body remains in mundane reality
      - Healthy living and rest emphasized
  - - - Founded 1985 by Ilchi Lee
      - Daoist internal alchemy: longevity & spiritual transcendence
      - Accused of aggressive marketing and psychological manipulation
      - 2010 Rolling Stone article “The Yoga Cult”
      - Re-branded as Body and Brain
- - - - Once Zhuang Zhou (Zhuangzi) dreamt of being a butterfly. The butterfly was flitting and fluttering around, happy in its freedom to do as it pleased. It was not aware of being Zhou. Suddenly Zhou woke up and there he was: unmistakably Zhou himself. But he did not know if he was Zhou who has dreamt of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming it was Zhou. There must be a distinction between Zhou and a butterfly. This is called the transfiguration of things.
- - - - Alchemy
      - dietary
      - meditation
    - - Wu-wei (acting without acting or “not-doing”)
      - Ziran (spontanaeity, “self-so-ness”)