In the Shadows of the Dao - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Shadows of the Dao write by Thomas Michael. This book was released on 2015-09-25. In the Shadows of the Dao available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas Michael's study of the early history of the Daodejing reveals that the work is grounded in a unique tradition of early Daoism, one unrelated to other early Chinese schools of thought and practice. The text is associated with a tradition of hermits committed to yangsheng, a particular practice of physical cultivation involving techniques of breath circulation in combination with specific bodily movements leading to a physical union with the Dao. Michael explores the ways in which the text systematically anchored these techniques to a Dao-centered worldview. Including a new translation of the Daodejing, In the Shadows of the Dao opens new approaches to understanding the early history of one of the world's great religious texts and great religious traditions.
The Snatchers
The Snatchers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Snatchers write by Kate Cabral-McKeand. This book was released on 2023-03-01. The Snatchers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first book of the Tree Dwellers trilogy - The Clan, Brill, and his young couriers have returned home from a successful grain-gathering mission at Memmcaro’s grain facility. Their community, known as The Clan, resides high in the hidden canopy of the tallwoods. The couriers stole their way into the corrupt seed conglomerate Memmcaro’s compound, but in doing so, it cost them the lives of their friends. Captain Mullins and his ruthless Rooks run Memmcaro. They control the compound where tainted and rare, untainted grains are stored. Horrific experiments on innocent children snatched from their homes also occur at the complex. Through these experiments, Mullins hopes to develop a serum that can cure the toxic effects of the diseases that affect virtually everyone on the ground. At a different location, Mullins’ nemesis, Civantes, is also conducting cruel experiments on the children. These endeavors have been unsuccessful due to the lack of healthy specimens - until now. Mullins wants to capture the tree dwellers whom he has seen. He wants them for their healthy compositions but also because they blew up his Farm, where battles to the death between men and mutated monsters took place. With the help of friends they have met, the companions must find and destroy Mullins, Civantes, and his deadly mutant men - The Snatchers - before being discovered. With the invaluable help of Mama Kilee’s knowledge, SheShe’s loyalty, and the antics of their pets, Cat and Dog, they must avoid the relentless Demonis, the silent Shivers, and the terrifying Humonsters if they want to live. Their mission is no longer about food. It’s about friendship, hope, and survival; time is running out.
Daoism and Environmental Philosophy
Daoism and Environmental Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daoism and Environmental Philosophy write by Eric S. Nelson. This book was released on 2020-10-01. Daoism and Environmental Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Daoism and Environmental Philosophy explores ethics and the philosophy of nature in the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, and related texts to elucidate their potential significance in our contemporary environmental crisis. This book traces early Daoist depictions of practices of embodied emptying and forgetting and communicative strategies of undoing the fixations of words, things, and the embodied self. These are aspects of an ethics of embracing plainness and simplicity, nourishing the asymmetrically differentiated yet shared elemental body of life of the myriad things, and being responsively attuned in encountering and responding to things. These critical and transformative dimensions of early Daoism provide exemplary models and insights for cultivating a more expansive ecological ethos, environmental culture of nature, and progressive political ecology. This work will be of interest to students and scholars interested in philosophy, environmental ethics and philosophy, religious studies, and intellectual history.
Prodigal of Martial Dao
Prodigal of Martial Dao - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prodigal of Martial Dao write by Jin GuChuanQi. This book was released on 2020-05-15. Prodigal of Martial Dao available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He was a racketeering little beggar, yet he had inadvertently obtained a strange book on martial arts ... He was a chivalrous young master, but because of his father, he was despised by all martial artists ... The little beggar saved the young master of the rich family, and thus saved the lives of all the people in the world ... [Close]
Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought
Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought write by Alexus McLeod. This book was released on 2020-09-03. Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary scholars of Chinese philosophy often presuppose that early China possessed a naturalistic worldview, devoid of any non-natural concepts, such as transcendence. Challenging this presupposition head-on, Joshua R. Brown and Alexus McLeod argue that non-naturalism and transcendence have a robust and significant place in early Chinese thought. This book reveals that non-naturalist positions can be found in early Chinese texts, in topics including conceptions of the divine, cosmogony, and apophatic philosophy. Moreover, by closely examining a range of early Chinese texts, and providing comparative readings of a number of Western texts and thinkers, the book offers a way of reading early Chinese Philosophy as consistent with the religious philosophy of the East and West, including the Abrahamic and the Brahmanistic religions. Co-written by a philosopher and theologian, this book draws out unique insights into early Chinese thought, highlighting in particular new ways to consider a range of Chinese concepts, including tian, dao, li, and you/wu.
