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Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory
- Ideas Explained, Book 1
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's summary
Hans-Georg Moeller has achieved the perfect blend with Daoism Explained. It is both a fascinating introduction on Daoist thought as well as an original and insightful contribution to Eastern philosophy. This book will take the place of The Tao of Pooh by Hoff. Like that book, Doaism Explained offers a comprehensive presentation of Daoist philosophy that is interesting and easy to follow.
The study sheds new light on many Doaist allegories by showing how modern translations often concealed the wit and humor of the Chinese original or imposed alien philosophical frameworks on them. It attempts to take away the metaphysical and Christian disguises with which Daoist philosophy has been obscured by Western interpretations in the past 100 years.
The book is published by Open Court. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks.
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"The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this." This is the key statement of Miracles, in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian must not only accept but rejoice in miracles as a testimony of the unique personal involvement of God in his creation.
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sound, shrewd, well articulated, and well read.
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What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms rather than the other way around? In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement. A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, Dr. May draws on his experience to show how we can break out of old patterns in our lives.
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May takes on the Creative Act
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Best book ever
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The co-editors of Gnosis magazine explore the many esoteric traditions that Western culture has to offer. While terms from Eastern spiritual practices such as Zen, mantra, and karma have become part of our daily lexicon, the traditions of Western spirituality have been largely unexplored by people searching for non-mainstream routes to spiritual experience. But for those who identify with Western culture, Western religious traditions have their own wisdom teachings that are more suitable to their needs and expectations.
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Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. Author Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers, questions much of conventional wisdom, and explains his findings with unbridled brilliance and clarity. From the pre-Socratic philosophers through the celebrated days of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, up to Renaissance visionaries like Erasmus and Bacon, philosophy emerges here as a phenomenon unconfined by any one discipline.
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Bias spoils the work.
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Awful
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At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself. He devotes one "memo" each to the concepts of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
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More than a decade before the release of the book that would make him famous, Robert M. Pirsig had already caught hold of the central theme that would animate Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Though he was revered by fans who considered him a guru, the famously private Pirsig published only two books and consented to few interviews and almost no public appearances. Now, for the first time, listeners will be granted access to five decades of Pirsig’s personal writings in this posthumous collection that illuminates the evolution of his thinking to an unprecedented degree.
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Interesting trip inside an obsessed mind.
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In The Heretic’s Handbook, the internationally bestselling author of The Secret History of the World has collected and codified ancient, secret wisdom from around the world, formulating a complete philosophy on how to live a happy and successful life. An acclaimed author and public speaker, Black shows how this body of knowledge has been declared ‘heretical’ both by the established church and by today’s atheistic intellectual elite.
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great
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- JPB
- 04-26-20
Fantastic
If the topic is of interest and you are comfortable with academic lecture type delivery it’s excellent on all fronts.
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- 06-05-21
Re-Easternizing and Demystifying the Way
This is like sitting in on a university class with a professor very classically trained and practiced in using the voice. But that is about the only nod to Western classicism. In it's exhaustive clarity, this book divorced me from that, the mysticism and other notions that have grown up from the misunderstandings of various translators have inserted into their works. And I am grateful to Moeller. There are ideas I disagree with and that do not wholly line up with modern demonstratable knowledge, but that is okay within the daoist framework. Live with and use contradictions. Creativity is found in ambiguity. I am trying out the Taoist perspective because of Moeller's book.
I have downloaded audible and book of Ames and Hall's "Dao De Jing" as this, too, seems to aim at seeing daoism in a similar light, in a similar fashion.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-16-22
definitely worth a second listen
very well articulated, some ideas are easier to grasp than others, I'm just gonna listen more carefully a second time around, but very much a banger.
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- Kristian Shreiner
- 10-03-23
A clarifying presentation of the Dao
Moeller’s book goes a long way in distilling classical Daoism from the usually poor western misunderstandings of it.
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- Philo
- 04-23-19
An odd work, plods, as it well might, but then...
... in fitting Taoist style, a much deeper journey begins to unfold. The odd part stems partly from the varied content here. We start with some scholarly-historic rendering of various writings, characters, and interpreters through the years. This is crisp and has a pretty conventional academic sound to it. Then, the book seems to change as the author holds forth on certain apparently personal (though highly informed and considered) interpretations of various texts. This can come across in a sort of monotone at times (which perhaps we can chalk up to the narrator). But then, and I would say very effectively in a specifically Taoist way (as I understand it), the meanings appear to me, almost, and forgive me this weird image of my own, like a sort of anagram emerging in my mind and understanding, against the odd intonations of this book. Much of this is authentic for me, and as a long-time student of Taoism, I find new insights, or new angles and depths to existing insights. But this all hasn't worked in the way I normally expect a book to "function" and neatly impart meaning to me. This is a little mysterious, and I'm sure it is not everyone's cup of tea. So if you have a fairly evolved interest in Taoism, and plenty of patience and open-mindedness, and you are ready to sort of let the mist of this coalesce while a sometimes seemingly plodding and maybe even dull recitation proceeds, check it out. I am bearing in mind the passages in Tao te Ching itself that talk about how the sage seems dull and aimless, and I was able to find a new sort of resonance with that here. But there is more elegance behind the words than I am imparting. I apologize for my inarticulation. If that makes any sense at all, perhaps this IS your cup of tea. It is an acquired taste, I am very happy to immerse in. It brought a new level of all this to me.
I would say this is about three books in one -- which I turn out to like just fine.
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- CPetersen
- 07-07-20
Brilliant
Somewhere in the middle of the book, for about 10 seconds, I started to think "now I'm not so sure about..." Then he clarified the thought and I said "ah."
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- lattie hopkins jr
- 06-30-23
condescending
It's as if I went and wrote a book about the Bible and intentionally left out God or actually explained why you thinking it was about GOD is stupid
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-13-23
not well done although somewhat informative
starting to see why most reviews are good considering the requirements if less than four stars
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