Taoists observed how the play of cycles in Nature would manifest in parallel within their internal experience. Understanding and attuning to the world outside facilitated an ability to bring the internal microcosm into harmony with its world, and vice versa, where greater understanding of the microcosm - especially through meditative insight - supported this harmonization with the external environment or macrocosm.
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In this second episode of my introductory series on Traditional Chinese Medicine, I discuss some of the broad themes of Taoism, and look at how Taoism influenced some of the core theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine.


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