Chapter Eight: In A Daoist Circle

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Xiaoyao sits in on a session of Shijie's Daoist circle, where she guides them through the ancient Bǎi Gǔ Guān--the White Bone Contemplation, a meditation routine designed to settle random thoughts and, when taken to its final conclusion, to "study death."

Then Xiaoayao, Xiaojing and Ling Ling describe their own investigations of the Xing Ming Gui Zhi  (Principles for Essence and Life), an important book on internal alchemy which draws from the "Three Schools": Daoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

Xiaoyao puts his foot in it, again.

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Xiaoyao Xingzhe, the self-styled carefree pilgrim, has lived and worked all over the world, having crossed the Gobi in a decrepit jeep, lived with a solitary monk in the mountains of Korea, dined with the family of the last emperor of China, and helped police with their enquiries in Amarillo, Texas.

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