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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Oriental religions > Taoism
This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural
approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction
and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of
particular interest are the authors' refreshing insights into such
holistic and topical issues as the globalization of concepts of the
Dao, the Yin/Yang, the Heaven-Earth-Humanity triad, the Four
Greats, Five Phases, Non-action and so on, as expressed in Canadian
literature and criticism - which produces Canadian-constructed
Daoist poetics, ethics and aesthetics. Readers will come to
understand and appreciate the social and ecological significance
of, formal innovations, moral sensitivity, aesthetic principles and
ideological complexity in Canadian-Daoist works.
"A twenty-first-century form of ancient wisdom . . . Mitchell's
flights, his paradoxes, his wonderful riffs are brilliant and
liberating." -Pico Iyer
The most widely translated book in world literature after the
Bible, Lao-tzu's "Tao Te Ching," or "Book of the Way," is the
classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal
success of his own version of the "Tao Te Ching," renowned scholar
and translator Stephen Mitchell has composed the innovative "The
Second Book of the Tao." Drawn from the work of Lao-tzu's disciple
Chuang- tzu and Confucius's grandson Tzu-ssu, "The Second Book of
the Tao" collects the freshest, most profound teachings from these
two great students of the Tao to offer Western readers a path into
reality that has nothing to do with east or west, but everything to
do with truth. With his own illuminating commentary alongside each
adapta-tion, at once explicating and complementing the text,
Mitchell makes the ancient teachings at once modern, relevant, and
timeless.
Listen to a special podcast with Stephen Mitchell:
These parables are written from the words of Lao Tse and relate how
He learnt from Great Huang Di. The steps of the spiritual Path that
permit to cognize Tao and Te are described here in parable style.
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