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Summary: Conerstone reference...
Review: Cleary has done an excellent job of putting a number of essential Taoist texts into one volume. The book begins with some Tao Te Ching and leads straight into some translations of Ancester Lu - not everything, just the essentials.There are numerous other texts here and, quite framkly, the book stands quite well as a new start in the tradition of the old classics. That is, there appears to be a lot of 'method' to Cleary's 'madness' of taking only sections of the texts in conjunction with the general development of the material. This book contains enough of the classics that it is essential to anyone seriously practicing Qigong. If you have this and a couple of Eva Wong's excellent translations you probably don't need much else for your library.
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Summary: Conerstone reference...
Review: Cleary has done an excellent job of putting a number of essential Taoist texts into one volume. The book begins with some Tao Te Ching and leads straight into some translations of Ancester Lu - not everything, just the essentials. There are numerous other texts here and, quite framkly, the book stands quite well as a new start in the tradition of the old classics. That is, there appears to be a lot of 'method' to Cleary's 'madness' of taking only sections of the texts in conjunction with the general development of the material. This book contains enough of the classics that it is essential to anyone seriously practicing Qigong. If you have this and a couple of Eva Wong's excellent translations you probably don't need much else for your library.
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Summary: The Great Way
Review: If you study the great way then this book will help you much. If you study qi gong and like to mess with energy then there is also much that this book can offer you. In a nutshell it is the most complete book of philosophy and spiritualistic studies I have ever encountered save for Balfour's "Taoist Texts" unfortunately this text is hard to come by as it's last reprint was in 1975 and it's original translation and first printing was done in 1880. One can find it from used or rare book dealers however, I actually purchased mine from the amazon auction store, it was the only one they had however.
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Summary: A wonderful addition to any Philosopher's library...
Review: This is a must have for anyone interested in Taoism. Has an excelent selection from numerous important authors from Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu sequentialy through the writing of 20th century Taoists. Superb for the beginner and indespensable to the serious collector.
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