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Living Tao: Still Visions and Dancing Brushes Copyright © 1976 by AlChung-hang Huang. Published by CELESTIAL ARTS, 231 Adnan Road, Millbrae,California 94030. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical,photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording,nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise copied forpublic or private use without the written permission of the publisher. First printing:November, 1976. fvlade in the United States of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataHuang, Al Chung-hang.

Living Tao

1. Taoism. I. Ko, Si, Chi, II. Title.

BL1920.H84 299'. 514 76-11338

ISBN 0-89087-127-2

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Early morning zazen by the pond in the Catskills

Watching sun rise against the rocks in the SouthwestPlaying my bamboo flute in the Whitesand desert

Dancing with my wife and children by the seaT'ai Chi on Mount Tamalpais. . .

These fleeting moments of my life in the past ten years havebeen captured by Ko, my dear friend, the magician-photographer.

We have a book to share with you, glimpses of Tap in practice

as a living art. Ko's visions transport humble personal waysto divine dimensions—to be larger than life yet remain egolessly

wonder-full. To be, always, inspired by Living.

My brush speaks through the dancing cursiveness of ChineseCalligraphy, expressing no-thoughts and beyond-words. Read less,

their literalness, dance more, their contours of energy.

Mostly, I wish to suggest the cyclic balance between meditative

stillness and the motions of our vital energy forces. To contemplatenature's changing forms in mountains, cloud and water, and the

human body moving. To listen to the heavenly sound of wind playing

the bamboo, through the breath of human, creating music and dance.

To return to innocence, to joy, to laughters and child's play.

In the everpresence of NOW, we are grass growing, cloud forming,

water flowing, man and woman dancing—humans in/with nature,

as part of nature, inseparable.

Tao is alive, living in all of us. To live Tao is to participate in

its moving essence. The person in the pictures is the universal YOU.YOU are here inside these pictures, living the moment, feeling the

energy, breathing its force.

TAO is breathing

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Born in Taiwan, and having received his training at the College of Photographyin Tokyo, a multi-ranged freelance photographer, Si Chi Ko lives in

New York City with his wonderful wife and four children. He is the

quintessence of a thoroughly delightful and lovable human being,

with the heart and joy of spirit of an eternal child.

Al Chung-liang Huang grew up in the villages of China, where he received

his training in the Classics and a variety of Oriental fine and martial arts.

He later came to America to become an architect and a concert performer,

and taught theatre/dance and Asian arts throughout North America and the

Far East. He is the director of the Lan T'ing Institute in Sausalito,

California; author of Embrace Tiger. Return to Mountain (Real People Press):

co-author with Alan Watts of Tao: The Watercourse Way (Pantheon Books); andthe subject in a T'ai Chi film also entitled "The Watercourse Way," which was

stunningly photographed by Kai de Fontenay at Esalen, Big Sur, and onMount Tamalpais. Most of the year, Al lives m the Midwest, observing

the four seasons with his wife Suzanne and their two daughters

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