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Old 27-01-2012, 12:44 AM
hand415
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Taoism, as a philosophy, promises practitioners a degree of immortality.
Immortality is defined in modern terms as: life to at least 100 years without disease or memory loss.
Teeth and hair intact, and satisfied with ones quality of life.
Typically at that age, one can observe four generations of children.
One may look up Li Ching Yun for a longer lived example.
He made it to 256, dying around 1933, and had an obituary in the New York Times newspaper.
Relatively rare, possibly impossible to repeat, but there are those who are trying.
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