The Tao Te Ching 201
The Tao Te Ching 201

Author: Matthew Barnes

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-27

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781708097004

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Deeper meanings of the Tao Te Ching made simple... In 81 brief, truly non-denomination chapters, the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu outlines the pitfalls of being alive while also offering us a path to successful navigation. According to Lao Tzu, the root problem of humanity is that we attempt to swim against the tides of life instead of aligning our efforts with its own. As a result, we struggle needlessly. Work in tune with the universe, not against it, and the struggle ends, says Lao Tzu. This approach is both practical and spiritual, for in following Lao Tzu's advice, a person's life can not only become simpler and easier, but it can also become a path to higher knowledge. Find and enter the intelligence in charge of the flow of life and Spirit becomes evident in even the most mundane of activities. This is my second translation of the Tao Te Ching. The first (Tao Te Ching 101) was written as a beginner's guide for a friend who grew up in a strict religious household where denominations, religions, and philosophies other than the family's own were not allowed. This translation goes a bit deeper. Notice that great works such as this one have many depths to their meanings. In fact, the meanings found in the verses of works such as the Tao Te Ching tend to change depending on the circumstances of the individual reading them. Join me and see where these verses find you now. "It is here, now, staring you right in the face. You can find It whenever you're ready." -Lao Tzu Scroll up and grab a copy today.

Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching
Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching

Author: Livia Kohn

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-03-19

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780791436004

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Examines the traditional and modern Western interpretations of the Tao-te-ching, and its author, Lao-tzu.

Tao and Method
Tao and Method

Author: Michael LaFargue

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9780791416013

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While the Tao Te Ching has been translated and commented on countless times, interpretations are seldom based on systematic theoretical treatment of the problems of interpretive method posed by this enigmatic classic. Beginning with a critical discussion of modern hermeneutics including treatments of Hirsch, Gadamer, and Derrida, this book applies methods developed in biblical studies to the Tao Te Ching. The following chapters discuss systematically four areas necessary to recovering the Tao Te Ching 's original meaning: its social background; the semantic structure of the brief aphorisms contained in the book; the concrete background of the more cosmic sayings; and the origin and genre of the 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching. These essays propose relatively new theories in each of these areas, leading to a new approach to the interpretation of the text. This approach is illustrated in the translation and the detailed commentary on each chapter.

The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu
The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu

Author: Lao Tzu

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 1996-11-15

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780312147440

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The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu is one of the most widely read and deeply cherished books in the world, a work many consider the wisest book ever written. In his introduction, translator Brian Browne Walker says, "It is less a book than a living, breathing angel." In his new translation, Walker stays close to the direct literal accuracy of the Chinese characters while producing a modern, exceptionally clear version that has the ring and voice of Lao Tzu, a man who may or may not have been a single individual. "I have come to think of Lao Tzu less as a man who once lived," Walker writes, "and more as a song that plays, eternal and abiding."

Dao de Jing
Dao de Jing

Author: Laozi

Publisher: Chinese University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9789622014671

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"Tao Te Ching, " also commonly known as "Lao Tzu, " is perhaps the most important of Chinese classical texts, with an unparalleled influence on Chinese thought. This bilingual edition consists of two parts. The English text in Part One is a reprint of the earlier translation of the so-called "Wang Pi" text, first published by Penguin Books in 1963. Part Two is the fresh translation of a text which is a conflation of two manuscripts of the "Lao Tzu, " dating at the latest from the early Western Han and discovered at Ma Wang Tui in December 1973. The result is a text with a fuller use of particles, free from the scribal errors and editorial tampering of subsequent ages.

Fasting: an Exceptional Human Experience
Fasting: an Exceptional Human Experience

Author: Randi Fredricks

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1481723790

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Fasting An Exceptional Human Experience Since prehistory, fasting has been used in various ways as a means of transformation. As a spiritual practice, it is the oldest and most common form of asceticism and is found in virtually every religion and spiritual tradition. In psychology, studies have suggested that fasting can alleviate the symptoms of some psychiatric conditions, including depression and schizophrenia. In medicine, fasting is one of the most promising therapies, with research suggesting that fasting can cause certain drugs, such as chemotherapy, to work better while reducing drug side-effects. Hunger striking, sometimes called political fasting, may be the most powerful application of fasting. Proof of this occurred in 1948 when Gandhis hunger strike caused millions of Hindus and Muslims in India to cease their fighting. As a practical guide, Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. provides detailed information on the different types of fasting, where people fast, the physiological process of fasting, and the contraindications and criticisms of fasting. Using existing literature and original research, Dr. Fredricks focuses on the transformative characteristics of fasting in the contexts of psychology, medicine, and spirituality. The relationship between fasting and transpersonal psychology is examined, with a focus on peak experiences, self-realization, and other exceptional human experiences. Dr. Fredricks demonstrates how fasting can be profoundly therapeutic, create global paradigm shifts, and provide personal mystical phenomena.

Guodian
Guodian

Author: Kenneth Holloway

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-01-28

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0199707685

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Fourteen years ago, a corpus of bamboo-strip texts was found in a late-fourth-century-BCE tomb at Jingmen, Hubei province in central China. The discovery of the "Guodian" texts, together with other recently discovered Warring States manuscripts, has revolutionized the study of early Chinese intellectual history. Kenneth Holloway argues that the Guodian corpus puts forth a political philosophy based on the harmonious interconnection of individuals engaged in moral self cultivation. This unique worldview, says Holloway, cannot meaningfully be categorized as "Confucian" or "Daoist," because it shares important concepts and vocabulary with a number of different textual traditions that have anachronistically been characterized as competing or incompatible "schools" of thought. He finds that within the Guodian corpus familiar philosophical concepts and texts are applied in distinctive ways, presenting a worldview that is quite different from the received textual traditions. In addition to contributing to our understanding of this particular body of texts, Holloway proposes a methodology for assessing a corpus of texts without relying on assumptions and definitions that derive from two millennia of scholarship.

The Tao of the Tao Te Ching
The Tao of the Tao Te Ching

Author: Michael LaFargue

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2010-03-31

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1438409877

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In this new translation and commentary, LaFargue interprets the concept of "Tao" in the Tao Te Ching as a spiritual state of mind cultivated in a particular school in ancient China‚ a state of mind which also expressed itself in a simple but satisfying life-style, and in a low-key but effective style of political leadership. The interpretation offered here is not only historically accurate, but also conveys the spiritual depth of the Tao Te Ching and its contemporary relevance. The translation is made transparent by a design that presents all of the commentary on the page facing the relevant text.

Pandemonium Tremendum
Pandemonium Tremendum

Author: James E. Huchingson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1608992160

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James E. Huchingson takes computer and information science seriously in this constructive theology. Central to his reflection is an understanding of the primordial chaos--Pandemonium Tremendum--not as destructive, but as the source out of which God creates, sustains, and empowers creatures to become co-creators.