Mencius 1B:15. The duke Wan of T'ang asked Mencius, saying, 'T'ang is a small State. Though I do my utmost to serve those large kingdoms on either side of it,...
Livia Kohn in "Daoism and Chinese Culture" has a chapter on 'Early Daoist Trends' that analyzes the 3 main trends in the outer chapters in the Zhuangzi. One of...
On second thought, it seems that Waley's translation of DDJ 75 doesn't work in an anti-yangist context, because a Yangist would not have been in a position of...
... Hi Doug, You're right; Yangism probably only became hedonistic in the (forged and late) book of Liezi, written in the times of the 7 Sages of the Bamboo ...
While looking for the Shen Tzu fragments by P. M. Thompson (Routledge had published it in the Spring, but by the time I noticed it, it was already out of print...
... Nice link! He writes: "It makes sense to begin with the late layer, since the late editor was substantially responsible for the present shape of the text....
I am about halfway through the Complete Idiot's guide to Taoism, by Brandon Toporov and Chad Hansen. (a small caveat, I am doing this in this way because if I...
This came up on another list and might be of interest here. There is a way of looking up and ordering dissertations online. I am a part-time academic, so I...
... I'm not familiar with this one. When was it discovered, and how old is it? Recently I picked up Robert Henricks's "Lao Tzu De-Dao Ching," based on the ...
... Thanks for your comments, Douglas - I've looked through this book several times but haven't bought it (yet). So many books, so little money <sigh> ... A...
... the ... is it? ... on the ... differences ... about the ... I am gradually getting more free time (I hand in grades next week, possible transit strike...
... <chuckle> I'm watching a similar process here - my other half gave his second final (of two) today...... ... Thanks, I'll check 'em out........ ... Prob...
Both the Confucians (specially Mencius) and the Daoists had methods of cultivating, stabilizing, nourishing one's QI (or: ch'i). They key place to stabilize...
My conclusion is that the Confucian cultivation of Qi was primarily moral, mental, being true to oneself morally (cheng), coherent; with also some physical...
Thomas's posts on Qi Gong raises a question If there is anyone with knowledge of India for the comperable period, could they indicate whether there is a...
I doubt there was much influence. AFAIK most of the Indian yogic stuff (stuff involving what looks like chakras and channels) is from roundabout 500 CE...
... From: <george ... Besides this Yang side of Confucian QI, there also is a quest for the center (zhong), for balancing yin and yang, as in the "centrality"...
From the Amazon website Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly The authors offer two reasons for a new English version of the classic Chinese Daodejing,...
... Yes I had the same thought. I feel that putting aside the mysticism in the DDJ after the work of Roth and LaFargue is difficult to accept. I mean: the ...
... philosophical ... religious ... divorced ... in the ... mean: the ... & Ames ... aspect ... already been ... Good thoughts all. It seems if you look into...
... Yes Pierre Hadot has written on that; I've ordered Hall & Ames' DDJ translation anyway. There is a philosophical side to Early Daoism, and what they have...
1) THE SCHOLAR IN HIS MOUNTAIN VALLEY To be constrained in will, lofty in action, aloof from the world, apart from its customs, elevated in discourse, sullen...
Livia Kohn writes in Daoism and Chinese Culture (p. 45) that this Syncretist trend that we have here in the later chapters of the Zhuangzi, influenced the...
John Makeham, (in Ames' 'Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi') looks at the way this Analects story was seen by 3 Daoist groups: "In Ch'en when provisions ran...
The next group in the book of Zhuangzi (chapter 28), that did a remake of the Analects story were the Yangists (who believed in preserving the length of life...
The third group in the Zhuangzi that had an opinion of Confucius were the early Han Syncretist (that were close to the Huang-Lao movement). Whereas the...
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