Series of Tao

Even before I read Douglas Richard Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach (and after which I dove into the literature of Zen and wider Buddhism), I had been fascinated with Jane English’s translation of the Tao Te Ching. I actually copied it out by hand into a small notebook. Yes I still have it.

So since then I have picked up various translations, recently I realise it was a collection. I have never dived into the scholarship of the reception of Taoist thought outside of China, nor even Taoism’s Chinese history, but as I do own various “Tao of X” titled books in English, starting really, with Frijtof Capra’s The Tao of Physics …I do need a collection development policy… so… now… — I'll write little potted reviews of them.

  1.  The Tao of Science: an essay on Western knowledge and Eastern wisdom by R. G. H. Siu. For the most part it is a managerialist text, not a hippy text. ( substack.com )
  2. Tao of the Traveller by Barbara Bossert this is actually a western expression or reception of Hinduism, particularly the Brahma Kumaris movement. (substack.com)
  3. The Tao of Architecture by Amos Ih Tiao Chang, Princeton University Press, 1981. Princeton. (substack.com) Actually explores Daosim in terms of architecture.
  4. The Tao of Physics. Fritjof Capra. Shambala Publications, 1975. (substack.com)
  5. planned Benjamin Hoff. The Tao of Pooh. Penguin Books, 1983.
  6. Pasley, Sally. The Tao of Cooking. Ten Speed Press, 1982. (substack.com)

 


And I'll add related posts here as well.

Christopher I. Beckwith's The Scythian Empire

 

 

The other series is a bunch of quick takes or reactions in reviewing articles on evolution~morality.

The overall contents are listed and sublisted at Topics and Projects.