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1 This article is based on a longer and more detailed presentation found in my new book, Life Is Divine Play (Amazon ‑ iUniverse Publisher 2009). Our daily regimen in Taiwan continued for a short time in the U.S., but within months, things started to change. Only later did I realize that my training at those centers and especially at the Taoist Sanctuary, were in stark con‑ trast to my later, more intense and formal training in Taiwan. Eastern philosophy and religion were not new to me, for I had lived in an Advaita Vedanta Ashram in Florida from 1962 to 1970 and afterwards spent a year sitting with Suzuki Rishi in his Zen Center in Tassajara. I joined them in 1972 and trained there until the winter of 1974. in the early 1970s was the Taoist Sanctuary in Los Angeles. The most active center of Daoism in the U.S.
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Still, the skin graft was fast and came with continuous changes in content and teaching style. soil, but rather thought of it as being a “skin graft” onto the tree of Daoism already growing here. Be‑ cause our training in Taiwan was rather orthodox, Master Ni never in‑ tended to simply “transplant” his sect into U.S. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ġ77 Ni Hua-Ching’s Americanization of the “Eternal Breath of Dao” MARK JOHNSON1 Being one of the first Westerners initiated by Daoist master Ni Hua‑ Ching 倪化清 in Taiwan in the winter of 1975, and having spent another eight years with him in this country, I was an intrinsic witness to the Americanization of his particular lineage as it evolved in the USA.