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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)

Ingrid — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 19:05:14 +0000

In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao—the basic principle of the universe.

Stephen Mitchell’s bestselling version has been widely acclaimed as a gift to contemporary culture.

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Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao

Ingrid — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 19:00:21 +0000

Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our existence. The classic text of these 81 verses, called the Tao Te Ching or the Great Way, offers advice and guidance that is balanced, moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working for the good.In this book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of the Tao Te Ching and has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today’s modern world. This work contains the entire 81 verses of the Tao, compiled from Wayne’s researching of 10 of the most well-respected translations of text that have survived for more than 25 centuries. Each chapter is designed for actually living the Tao or the Great Way today. Some of the chapter titles are „Living with Flexibility,“ „Living Without Enemies,“ and „Living by Letting Go.“ Each of the 81 brief chapters focuses on living the Tao and concludes with a section called „Doing the Tao Now.“Wayne spent one entire year reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them each day and ultimately writing down these essays as he felt Lao-tzu wanted you to know them.This is a work to be read slowly, one essay a day. As Wayne says, „This is a book that will forever change the way you look at your life, and the result will be that you’ll live in a new world aligned with nature. Writing this book changed me forever, too. I now live in accord with the natural world and feel the greatest sense of peace I’ve ever experienced. I’m so proud to present this interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, and offer the same opportunity for change that it has brought me.“

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Tao Te Ching (Penguin Classics)

Ingrid — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:44:53 +0000

Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 – 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers a model by which the individual can live rather than explaining the human place in the universe. The moral code it encourages is based on modesty and self-restraint, and the rewards reaped for such a life are harmony and flow of life.

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The Secret of the Golden Flower: The Classic Chinese Book of Life

Ingrid — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:44:42 +0000

The brilliant new translation of the classic Taoist guide to meditation that Carl Jung made famous.

‚Thomas Cleary’s translation is like an island of peace in the troubled sea of today’s world. His beautifully lucid translation of the classic Chi

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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library)

Ingrid — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:31:48 +0000

„I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities.“

When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on „natural religion,“ he defined religion as „the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.“ Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by–or takes place in–the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which „the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions.“ It’s an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance–indeed, respect–the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades.

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