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Quiet Mind, Fearless Heartby Brian Luke Seaward
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010; US$ 14.95"Reading Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart is like eavesdropping on a conversation between Lao Tzu and Joseph Campbell--a pure pleasure to read!" --Deepak Chopra, M.D., coauthor of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga and author of The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire "Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart is an enchanting piece of wisdom that combines ancient insights with practical solutions to the stress epidemic that permeates our culture. Brian Luke Seaward is a master teacher, skillful guide, and true healer." --Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words and Reinventing Medicine "The perfect antidote for these acceleratingly stressful post-9/11 times with fearmongers accosting us everywhere, Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart artfully and wisely blends stress... more...
The Tao of Sobrietyby David Gregson; Jay S. Efran; G. Alan Marlatt
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 9.99The Tao of Sobriety shows how to apply eastern philosophy to enhance recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. With a few simple mental exercises, readers can learn how to quiet "The Committee," those nasty mental voices that undermine serenity and self-esteem. With leaders of the recovery movement enthusiastically endorsing this uniquely helpful book, The Tao of Sobriety is an invaluable addition to the recovery bookshelf. more...
Tao Te Chingby Lao-Tzu; Stephen Addiss; Stanley Lombardo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1993; US$ 8.95This translation captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original and resists the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the complete translation, Lombardo and Addiss provide one or more key lines from the original Chinese for each of the eighty-one sections, together with a transliteration of the Chinese characters and a glossary commenting on the pronunciation and meaning of each Chinese character displayed. This greatly enhances the reader's appreciation of how the Chinese text works and feels and the different ways it can be translated into English. "This crystalline translation of the Tao Te Ching is accurate down to the nuance and as concisely poetic as the original. It... more...
Tao of the Westby J.J. Clarke
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95In this book J.J Clarke shows us how Taoist texts, ideas and practices have been assimilated within a whole range of Western ideas and agendas. A fascinating introduction to Taoism and the history of the West's encounter with it. more...
Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhismby Youru Wang
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 180.00Whilst focusing on language use, the study reveals some important truths about Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism and challenges many conventional understandings of them. more...
Daoism in Historyby Benjamin Penny
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 170.00Daoism in History brings together essays by some of the leading scholars from Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK, France, Italy and the US, thus presenting new and important research in the field. more...
Tao-Te-Chingby Lao Tzu
Digireads.com 2004; US$ 2.99The classic spiritual work of Lao Tzu and the central text of the Taoist religion. more...
Tao Te Chingby Stephen Mitchell
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 9.99Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching llods at the basic predicatment of being alive and gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit. This book is about wisdom in action. It teaches how wo work for the good with the efforless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao (the basic principle of the universe) and applies equally to good government and sexual love, to childrearing, business, and ecology. The Tao Te Ching is the most widely traslated book in world literature, after the Bible. Yet the gemlike lucidity of the original has eluded most previous translations,... more...
Tao Te Chingby Lao-Tsu
NuVision Publications, LLC 2003; US$ 3.49This book, written approximately 2500 years ago, is probably the most influential book of all time. Its 81 chapters have been translated into English more times than any other Chinese document. The Tao Te Ching provides the basis for the philosophical school of Taoism. more...