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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on Transliteration and Romanization | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Hidden Barrier | |
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| Translation and Nomenclature | |
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| Passage through the Gate | |
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| William C. C. Chen | |
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| James Oschman | |
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| Ken Wilber | |
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| Entering the Zone | |
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| In the Zone | |
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| Knifing through the Zone | |
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| Better with Age | |
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| Waysun Liao Demonstrates Internal Power | |
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| What Is Taijiquan? | |
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| Gongfu | |
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| The Gongfu of Taijiquan | |
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| A Wordless Book | |
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| Insubstantial and Substantial | |
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| Stuff and Non-stuff | |
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| Relative Terms | |
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| Daoism and Taijiquan | |
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| Daoist Cosmology | |
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| The Western Gate | |
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| Science versus Scientism | |
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| Flatland | |
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| The Punch Line | |
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| Embracing Paradox | |
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| Nervous System Development | |
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| The Power of the Insubstantial | |
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| Getting Comfortable with Paradox | |
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| Seeing with Three Eyes | |
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| The Three Eyes | |
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| Injunctions | |
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| Three Strands of Valid Knowledge | |
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| Transrational Consciousness | |
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| Demonstration of the Transpersonal | |
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| Moving with the Way | |
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| Ask a Fish about Water | |
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| Discovering Air | |
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| Vitalism versus Mechanism | |
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| We Are Both Of and In It | |
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| Quantum Vacuum | |
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| Energy in the Human Body | |
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| Energy Healing | |
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| Not Always Present | |
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| The Copper Wall Project | |
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| Valerie Hunt's Research | |
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| Spectrum of Frequencies | |
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| The Egely Wheel | |
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| Direct Experience of Qi | |
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| Injunctions for Qi Recognition | |
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| The Power of Attention | |
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| Correct Language | |
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| Taiji Ball | |
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| Coherent Energy | |
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| What Is Energetic Coherence? | |
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| Coherence and Entropy | |
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| Life's Spectrum of Coherence | |
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| Psychophysiological Coherence | |
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| Testing Energetic Coherence | |
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| Taiji Training | |
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| Muscle Testing for Energetic Coherence | |
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| Taijiquan Forms | |
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| Accessing Energetic Coherence | |
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| Coherence: The Means, Not the Goal | |
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| Coherence Criteria | |
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| Taiji Coherence | |
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| Driving with the Hand Brake On | |
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| Rooting | |
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| Rooting the Hard Way | |
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| Rooting Results from Coherence | |
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| Stumbling Blocks | |
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| Force versus Power | |
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| Internal versus External | |
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| Keys to the Car | |
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| Return to Wholeness | |
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| Beyond Relaxation | |
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| How It's Done | |
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| Understanding Song | |
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| Tensegrity | |
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| What Is Tensegrity? | |
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| Tensegrity in Structure | |
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| Everything Is Vibration | |
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| The Living Matrix | |
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| Half-Second Delay | |
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| Liquid Crystals | |
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| Properties of the Living Matrix | |
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| Why the Index Finger? | |
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| The Living Matrix in Form and Practice | |
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| Erecting a Tent | |
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| Tensegrity in a Taijiquan Form | |
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| Standing Meditation and the Living Matrix | |
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| Coherence in Push Hands | |
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| Applications of Push Hands | |
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| Pitfalls | |
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| The Nine-Channeled Pearl | |
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| What Is the Nine-Channeled Pearl? | |
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| Energy Follows the Path of Least Resistance | |
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| Kinking the Hose | |
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| Raising the Spirit of Vitality | |
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| The Kua | |
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| Set the Knee | |
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| Release the Kua | |
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| Release and Energize | |
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| Song Kua in Practicing the Form | |
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| Now and Jin | |
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| The Monkey Trap | |
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| The Problem with Meditation | |
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| Presence | |
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| Turning the Light Around | |
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| The Body Is Not an Adversary | |
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| The Host and the Guest | |
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| The Path of The Secret of the Golden Flower | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |