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To my mother, Beatrice Saso, who wonders what I do in the hills of China and Tibet, and to the monks, nomads, and others who made the sojourning so eventful. To the late Zhuang Chen Dengyun, who taught the meditations of the Yellow Court Canon as interpreted in these pages; the lay Taoists, men and women, of the Yuanxuanxue Yuan in Samdiptam, Kowloon, who practice Taoist meditation in their daily lives; and the Taoist master Shi Daochang, who learned these practices before the Japanese burning of Mao Shan in 1938 and the Red Guard destruction of the sacred mountain between 1966 and 1978 and taught, "quieting the heart" (ding xin) until his death on Mao Shan in 1989.