T'Ai Chi Classics
10 best books like T'Ai Chi Classics (Waysun Liao): Tao Te Ching, The I Ching or Book of Changes, The Way of Chuang Tzu (Shambhala Library), Seven Taoist Masters: A Folk Novel of China, The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-Neng, The Boxer and the Spy, Zen and the Birds of Appetite, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
| Author | Lao Tzu |
| ISBN | 0679724346 |
The Wisest Book Ever Written...
Complete on Audio...The Entire 81 Chapters (and Introduction to) Stephen Mitchell's exquisite new tradition of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way -- the classic manual on the art of living revered as one of the wonders of the world. Dating from the 6th century...
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3000 years and interest in it has spread in the West.
Set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the Book of Changes deepened in meaning...
| Author | Zhuangzi |
| ISBN | 1590301439 |
Chuang Tzu—considered, along with Lao Tzu, one of the great figures of early Taoist thought—used parables and anecdotes, allegory and paradox, to illustrate that real happiness and freedom are found only in understanding the Tao or Way of nature, and dwelling in its unity. The respected Trappist...
| Author | Eva Wong |
| ISBN | 1590301765 |
History and legend are interwoven in this folk novel that both entertains and instructs. Written by an unknown author, Seven Taoist Masters is the story of six men and one woman who overcome tremendous hardships on the journey to self-mastery. These characters and their teacher, Wang Ch'ung-yang,...
| Author | Hui-Neng |
| ISBN | 0877730059 |
The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the 4th century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature & is the oldest existing printed book in the world. It's known as the Diamond Sutra because its teachings are said to be like diamonds that cut away all dualistic thought, releasing...
| Author | Robert B. Parker |
| ISBN | 0399247750 |
When a shy high school student's body is found washed up on the shore of a quiet New England beach town, an apparent suicide, fifteen-year-old Terry Novak doesn't know what to think. Something just doesn't add up, so he decides to do some investigating of his own with the help of his best friend, Abby. It...
"Zen enriches no one," Thomas Merton provocatively writes in his opening statement to Zen and the Birds of Appetite—one of the last books to be published before his death in 1968. "There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while... but they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone,...
| Author | Lao Tzu |
| ISBN | 0060692456 |
آیا این گونه می پنداری که هستی متلاطم و بی قرار است؟ پس در شب به بیابان بزن و به ستاره ها بنگر. با این تمرین پاسخ ات را خواهی گرفت.
"مردِ برتر" ذهنِ خود را آرام می...
| Author | Bodhidharma |
| ISBN | 0865473994 |
A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual...
| Author | Liezi |
| ISBN | 1570628998 |
The Lieh-tzu is a collection of stories and philosophical musings of a sage of the same name who lived around the fourth century BCE. Lieh-tzu's teachings range from the origin and purpose of life, the Taoist view of reality, and the nature of enlightenment to the training of the body and mind, communication,...
| Author | Chen Kaiguo |
| ISBN | 0804831858 |
This authorized biography of the contemporary Taoist expert Wang Liping (1949 -) tells the true story of his apprenticeship in Taoist wizardry, as well as Taoist principles and secrets of inner transformation.
The 18th-generation transmitter of Dragon Gate Taoism, Wang Liping is heir...
| Author | Robert B. Parker |
| ISBN | 0399247769 |
Way back in 2009 I read Robert B. Parker’s new Spenser novel The Professional and wrote up a review bitching about how he fell into bad habits late in his career. Then he died a few months later, and I felt slightly guilty about bashing a series I once loved so I started re-reading them from the beginning....
