Tao and Diet: Promoting Health, Wellbeing and Long Life - Paperback

by Penelope Ford (Editor), Bing Dongyang Zhao (Author)

Today, technology and living standards have improved more than ever before, but people's health has sharply declined. Elderly diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes now happen to young people. Cancer and other malignant diseases are wide spread. All of these are because the quality of our life has deviated from the concept of healthy living. This book titled "Tao and Diet" describes the relationship between Tao and food from a Taoist perspective. It is dedicated to those who are seriously care about their quality of life. It encourages the reader to use natural diet conditioning to achieve the goal of health and longevity.

Author Biography

Master Dongyang started learning at a very early age in Beijing, China. His teacher is Wang Mingli who came form Zhongnan mountain, where the genuine Taoist lineage established. From the very start, Master Dongyang learnt genuine Taoist knowledge, which is non-superstitious and non-religious but true natural knowledge and natural practice to cultivate and grow the internal elixir (Neidan) Branched out from Taoist lineages that stemmed from private Taoist hermits, Master Dongyang promoted Tao as a practical, effective and functional way to easily deal with variety of troubles and issues. There are no rituals and rites, there are no chants or prayers. There is only a simple life cultivation through the cultivation of the internal elixir and the constant respect of the nature. Master Dongyang is constantly doing hard to bridge the gap between the ancient Taoist knowledge and the modern world to spread the Taoist theory of the life to public through his Laozi Academy in Sydney, Australia. Now, Master Dongyang is trying to use easy to understand language in this book to share his Taoist knowledge to more people who is keen to learn about Taoist knowledge. He hope his readers can be benefit from this book.