Hello I was reading DC Lau's introduction of his 1963 Dao De Jing. This part intrigued me: As in our view the Lao tzu is an anthology, it is a matter of some ...
Been reading some stuff by a contemporary mystic called U.G. Krishnamurti, and thinking about how this might relate to early Daoism. Actually, U.G. himself...
First, a colleague bowed out of a class at the last minute, so I have added an additional class. On the plus side it means more money and more experience in...
Looking at Amazon for my previous post I came across the following KEY CONCEPTS IN CHINESE PHILOSOPHY Sounds interesting, has anyone else tasted it? Dainian...
Zhang Dai Nian is a really good researcher in Chinese philosophy, he have many books about this subject (chinese philosophy concepts), I have two of them one...
Yes I have it and have read it and have thoroughly enjoyed it :-) A great encyclopedia-like book with plenty of quotations from Daoist texts in helping 2...
... Daoist ... of ... Thanks, but one question. When he is comparing concepts, does he do so for the different times periods? That is, is he comparing the ...
There is a surprising parallel between the books of Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu) and Mencius, that has been noted by Bryan Van Norden in his article "Competing...
Much meat, much interesting about this book, I suspect more so for the Chinese linguists in the group When it arrived, I opened it at random and found the...
Just this Qi could be the connection between the emptiness of the Dao perspective from which there is not right or wrong, and the Qi that Cook Ding cultivates...
Good Day Douglas Sorry about the delay, but since this group has so little action, I don't visit it often. re: " When he is comparing concepts, does he do so...
Mencius could be criticizing a Daoist here (Ch'an Chung), who has withdrawn from society to maintain his purity, but who has thereby neglected the importance...
... withdrawn ... the ... this is ... not ... in ... days was ... grew a ... worms. He ... swallowing ... as the ... he ... become an ... yellow spring ... it...
There are two apparently contradictory texts by Zhuangzi on this. At the beginning of chapter 3 called "THE SECRET OF CARING FOR LIFE", he advises us to keep...
The Daoists seem to have felt that they were on the fringe in ancient China, I mean that their ideas were so revolutionary that they often were not understood...
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Hello everyone, this is my first post to the group. I am not sure if this is the right place for me to ask questions. Since I am not a scholar, just interested...
Hello Florian- Personally I have huge problems with the traditional gloss of ke3 in this line as ke4 (can) and this has made me have to rethink the whole ...
Hi Yiying ... The symmetry is all-important, no matter which of the zillion ways you translate it. I have an odd sort of translation of this (but my Matrix...
... But if the "path" is the "one we are all travelling", how does that differ from a "general path". Also, the use of "general" or "generic" for "chang"...
Hi again ... The known river is defined by its course, it's Dao. The unknown river is defined by its substance or quality. General, eternal and usual should...
May I try mine, a little Heideggerian, but also quite literal: "The Waying (or walking) that can be wayed (or walked on) is not the constant waying (walking); ...
... Not quite sure I catch you here. isn't a river defined by its course whether it is known or unknown? how is something unknown to be defined (if not in the...
Hi Florian, ... Personally, I do not like it. I think dao as a verb is something very different than to "be experienced through the five senses". Its relation ...
Hi all- Since I qualified my little offering as "one of a zillion" possibilities, that responded specifically to the problem "what if ke3 did not mean "can," I...
can you guys anwser these questions? (i) What are superior virtue? and inferior virtue? according to Laozi? (ii) Why did Laozi criticize inferior virtue? (iii)...
Hi- ... Just one set of opinions, in brief. But first, to translate De2 as virtue without remembering its other glosses really clips the meaning. Here are...
I must confess I am somewhat puzzled. On the one hand there is little participation on the list and out of the more than one hundred members, only 16 bothered...
Hi Douglas- ... Sounds like we're not unsubscribing in droves. For my part, I still get all the Emails, but only jump in when my fairly narrow interests are ...
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