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Taoistic:
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Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
A New English Version by Ursula K. Le Guin (1997) 125pages

(Shambhala)



Tao: The Chinese Philosophy of Time and Change
Philip Rawson and Laszlo Legeza (1973) 128pages

Vast indeed is the Ultimate Tao, Spontaneously itself, apparently without acting, End of all ages and beginning of ages, Existing before Earth and existing before Heaven, Silently embracing the whole of time, Continuing uninterrupted through all eons, In the East it taught Father Confucius, In the West it converted the 'Golden Man' (Buddha), Taken as pattern by a hundred kings, Transmitted by generations of sages, It is the ancestor of all doctrines, The mystery beyond all mysteries.
- Ming rock inscription dated Spring, 1556
A title in the Art and Imagination series, with 196 illustrations, 33 in colour. ( Thames & Hudson)



Taoism: Way Beyond Seeking (The Edited Transcripts 1968-73)
Alan Watts (1915-73) edited by Mark Watts (1997) 129pages US$ C$17.50

At the time of his death, Alan Watts was working on a definitive guide to Taoism, derived from his famous lectures such as 'The Philosophy of Tao', 'Being in the Way', and 'Landscape, Soundscape'. This work has now been completed by his son. Taoism: Way beyond Seeking distils the essential teachings of Alan Watts into one volume. Capturing all the energy and penetrating vision of his lectures, it reveals his words to be as relevant and prophetic today as they were 25 years ago. (Thorsons)



The Way of Life: According to Lao Tzu
Translated by Witter Bynner (1944) 109pages US$8.95 C$12.95

Laotzu was concerned, as man must ever be, with the origin and meaning of life, but knew and declared that no man's explanation of it is absolute. His book opens, "Existence is beyond the power of words / To define, / Terms may be used / But are none of them absolute."... Laotzu fused mysticism and pragmatism into a philosophy as realistic as that of Confucius but sweetened by the natural and sufficient intuition of rightness with which he believed all men to be endowed and by which he believed all men could discover their lives to be peaceful, useful and happy. He was by no means the solitary unneighborly hermit, occult with meditation. He was as natural, as genial, as homely as Lincoln. Having a sense of humor and, as much as any man who has lived, was the everlasting neighbor. - from the translator's Introduction (Perigee)



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