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Tao: The Watercourse Way
Following Alan Watts' acclaimed book on Zen Buddhism The Way of Zen, he tackles the Chinese philosophy of Tao. The Tao is the way of man's cooperation with the natural course of the natural world. Alan Watts takes the reader through the history of Tao and its interpretations by key thinkers such as Lao-Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching. Watts goes on to demonstrate how the ancient and timeless Chinese wisdom of Tao promotes the idea of following a life lived according to the natural world and goes against our goal-oriented ideas by allowing time to quiet our minds and observe the world rather than imposing ourselves on it. By taking in some of the lessons of Tao, we can change our attitude to the way we live. Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Including an introduction to the Chinese culture that is the foundation of the Tao, this is one of Alan Watts' best-loved works.
Summary of Dr. Wayne W. Dyer's Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
Author: Everest Media,
language: en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date: 2022-05-27T22:59:00Z
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Tao is both named and unnamed. It is unknowable and unseeable, but it is also invisibly within everything. When we desire to see the mystery of the Tao, we must let go of trying to define it in terms of the outer world of form. #2 The 10,000 things that Lao-tzu refers to in the passage represent the categorized, classified, and scientifically named objects of the earth. Yet for all our technological expertise and scientific categorization, we can never truly create a human eye or liver. #3 Don’t try so hard to make things work, and don’t always try to understand your partner, your children, your parents, or your boss. The Tao is always working. When expectations are shattered, practice allowing that to be the way it is. #4 The labeling process is what most of us were taught in school. We studied hard to be able to define things correctly in order to get what we called high grades. But we know, without anyone telling us, that there is no title, degree, or distinguishing label that truly defines us.
The End of Divine Truthiness: Love, Power, and God
Author: Paul Joseph Greene
language: en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date: 2017-08-01
In The End of Divine Truthiness, Paul Joseph Greene confronts stark realities of terrifying theologies that make a mockery out of divine love. With urgent resolve, Greene answers Martin Luther King, Jr.’s pointed challenge to overcome “reckless and abusive . . . power without love,” and “sentimental and anemic . . . love without power.” Too many theologies cast God either as the tyrant whose loveless power lifts up the mighty or the victim whose powerless love sends the poor away empty. Wielding Stephen Colbert’s word “truthiness” as a scalpel, Greene slices out one perilous theology after another to restore the wholesome truth that God is love. Supported by three world religions—Buddhism, Christianity, and Taoism—he discovers a remarkably harmonious and revolutionary divine power that is fully aligned with divine love. To reunify love and power here in the world, as King challenges, it is time to abandon ideologies of divine power that devastate divine love and promote atrocities. Greene’s call for “the end of divine truthiness” heralds a new day for the God whose love is power and whose power is love.