Taoist Subtle Anatomy

By Keith Sherwood

The original center of Taoist teaching was China. It was there in the 6th century BCE where the basic principles of Taoist anatomy were laid out by Lao Tzu. Not much is known about his personal life – but we do know that, like his contemporaries in India, he taught that the physical-material world was the outer manifestation of a non-physical world of e…