A new translation of the old Taoist classic on the Way, with Heshang Gong’s two-thousand year old original chapter headings. These reveal the book to be concerned largely with qigong practice. Through own own self- cultivation we can transform our world. This edition acts as a prelude to the traditional-style commentary the author has created (forth-coming), based upon both the Wangbi and Heshang Gong traditions. A book of rare poetry and learning.

About the author

Richard Bertschinger is a translator from the classical Chinese of the The Golden Needle, (Churchill Livingstone 1991) also The Secret of Everlasting Life, (Element 1994), early alchemical and medical texts. He taught ten years at Yeovil College - Tai-chi, massage and relaxation. He has been in acupuncture practice twenty-five years with Jane Robinson and Lesley Jenkins in Yeovil. He studied Tai-chi, meditation and translation with Mr Gia-fu Feng, American-Chinese Taoist teacher until his death in 1986, also learning his acupuncture from Jack Worsley at Leamington Spa, and working as a primary school teacher in the UK and in Gestalt Therapy in the USA. A first degree in philosophy, he also worked ten years at Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton, in the NHS Pain Clinic promoting Traditional Acupuncture.