... but it doesn't include Wang Bi's long preface called "subtle pointers": Laozi weizhi lüeli which is probably hard to find... It seems that Wagner's newer...
But are they the same works Or did Cleary simply cull things from the other work? Is there a distinction I always liked my pocket copy of the cleary and gave...
Hi Bradford, ** ... thank you very much - I did not know about this link - very impressive... For those who can not read Chinese, a couple of interesting books...
Back from 3 weeks on the West Coast, a great experience... From: Thomas Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 5:24 PM To: Daoist_Text_Symposium@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
Looking for the occurrences of wanwu, there is for example the beginning of chapter 42: The Tao gives birth to one one gives birth to two two gives birth to...
I think it's interesting that the first time Yin and Yang appear in a Daoist text, and the only time in Laozi, they are part of a triplicity rather than just a...
It could also be that qi (vital force) is the fusion of yin and yang? Which is perhaps more clear in Lynn’s translation: “The myriad things, bearing yin...
or Henricks (MWD): “The ten thousand things carry yin on their backs and wrap their arms around yang. Through the blending of qi they arrive at a state of...
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... Well, it gives favorable reviews to the Stephen Mitchell DDJ and considers Deng ming dao's work factual. It does not seem that he googled the phrase "Deng...
Hi all- This is a paper I've been meaning to write for a while. It's about the word and concept of Dao as it was understood before the Warring States and the...
Hi, after a long pause, Im thinking of continuing my slow reading of the Dao de jing where I had left it, following Hall & Ames (HA) Mawangdui-based ...
A look at chapter 5, that seems very anti-Confucian: Hall & Ames: The heavens and the earth are not partial to institutionalized morality (bu ren). Robert...
I wonder if Hall & Ames are not really attempting to protect their Western readers form reading Western/Christian metaphysics into the Dao De Jing, after all: ...
Looking at DDJ6 in Henricks translation and looking for similar images/metaphors in the first five chapters, it seems that chapter 6 gathers together the ideas...
hi, yes a very interesting article, the Way before Laozi paved it; then one could perhaps take DDJ1: “As for the Way, the Way that can be spoken of is not...
Once again comparing Hall & Ames (HA) and Robert Henricks (RH) Mawangdui translations: HA The heavens are lasting and the earth is enduring RH Heaven endures,...
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