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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:15 PM Original message |
Has anyone Read The Tao of Pooh? |
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Merlot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. Many years ago |
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Schema Thing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. I have not; but in that vein, I'd recommend Oh The Places You'll Go |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
3. I haven't read that, but... |
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zazen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. Love it. Pooh is translation of p'u, for "uncarved block" |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
5. Yes. Thumbs up. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. An aside -- have you read Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching? |
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toddaa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
7. New age Daoism lite for lazy Americans |
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earthside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 11:11 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Disagree. |
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toddaa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 08:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. A misguided introduction |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 11:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. wow, thanks.. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 11:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I would not say The Tao of Pooh bashes Buddhism, I would say The Tao of Pooh critiques Buddhism. nt |
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toddaa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 08:19 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Check out Tao of Zen by Ray Grigg |
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westerebus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 09:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. You are the only other person I've come across |
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toddaa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 08:10 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. I seem to be a minority opinion on Hoff |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 09:48 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Believe me |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
10. I read it and I liked it. You may also like Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan Watts. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
13. I read it decades ago. It seemed a fun concept, but I thought it fell completely flat |
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toddaa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 08:03 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Big thumbs up on Merton |
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toddaa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
16. Try reading Zhuangzi and Nietzsche's Zarathustra in parallel |
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westerebus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 09:09 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Victor Mair. Very recommended. |
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toddaa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 08:04 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Stop stealing my books |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
19. Another text I much like: Huanchu Daoren's 16th century "Vegetable Root Talk" |
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toddaa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 08:19 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. You pretty much own everything printed by Shambala, don't you? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-26-11 04:25 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Hardly. I went through a period of Taoist enthusiasm about fifteen or twenty years ago |
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