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The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions

The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions

by Huston Smith

With a new preface and fresh package, this completely revised and updated version of The Religions of Man explores the essential elements and teachings of the world’s predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and the native traditions of the Americas, Australia, Africa, and Oceania. Smith emphasises the inner – rather than institutional – dimensions of... (more)

Tao Te Ching

by Gai-Fu Feng, Jane English, Laozi, Lao-Tzu

The most accessible and authoritative modern English translation of the ancient Chinese classic. Offers the essence of each word and makes Lao Tsu's teaching immediate and alive.

Taoist Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Taoist Sages

Taoist Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Taoist Sages

by Timothy Freke

All in color! Inspire and enrich yourself every day. This wisdom--blended with beautiful illustrations--will awaken your inner being. Reflect on daily life. Start with first light, going with the flow, detachment, and harmony. Turn to a quote each day as a focus for meditations like being a good listener spares one the burden of giving advice; a 1,000-mile ourney starts with one step; waking thoughts and sleeping... (more)

Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits

Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits

by Bill Porter

Drawing on knowledge based on 20 years as a resident of China, Porter examines the ancient Chinese hermit tradition. Part travelogue, part history, part sociology, and part religious study, this record of extraordinary journeys to an unknown China sheds light on a phenomemon unparalleled in the West, and the philosophies that underlie it. Photographs.

Monkey: A Journey to the West

by David Kherdian

Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic, the folk novel Journey to the West , which came to be known as Monkey , is the most popular classic of Asian literature. Originally written in the sixteenth century, it is the story of the adventures of the rogue-trickster Monkey and his encounters with a bizarre cast of characters as he travels to India with the Buddhist pilgrim Tripitaka in search of sacred... (more)

Taoist Master Chuang

by Michael R. Saso

Until his death in 1976 Master Chuang, a descendant of 35 generations of Taoist Priests, carried out his ancient rituals for the benefit of a small band of believers in Taiwan. His family, who claimed to have come from Hua Shan, the Taoist mountain in western China, followed the observances of the Dragon-Tiger Mountain sect in southeastern China. Although there are many conflicting Taoist schools, the... (more)

The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions

by John Westerdale Bowker

Religion is an integral part of every culture on Earth. And with the rise of the global village, the great influx of immigrants into the United States from Asia and the Middle East, and the growth of the ecumenical spirit in the last several decades, Americans are becoming more and more curious about the various religions of the world, including such major belief systems as Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism and... (more)

Daoist Body Cultivation: Traditional Models And Contemporary Practices

Daoist Body Cultivation: Traditional Models And Contemporary Practices

Presented by a group of dedicated scholars and practitioners, this volume covers the key practices of medical healing, breathing techniques, diets and fasting, healing exercises, sexual practices, Qigong, and Taiji quan.

Dao de jing. (English)

by Laozi

THE TAO-TE CHING includes 'The Book of the Way' (the Tao) and 'The Book of Virtue or Power' (the Te) in which the teachings of Lao-Tzu are set down. According to the teachings, wisdom is attained through understanding the way the universe works. In order to understand how the universe works, one must live in harmony with it, accepting the forces at play, and acting intuitively and spontaneously in accordance with... (more)

The Tao of Pooh

by Benjamin Hoff

One of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese, or a venerable philosopher, but is in fact none other than A. A. Milne's effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear Winnie-the-Pooh. While Eeyore frets and Piglet hesitates and Rabbit calculates and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is. And that's the clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists.

The Tao of Physics

by Fritjof Capra

After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. This updated edition of The Tao of Physics includes a new preface and afterword in which the author reviews the developments of the twenty-five years since the book's first publication, discusses criticisms the book has received, and examines future possibilities for a new scientific world.

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