Poetry
Li Po, Tu Fu, Wang Wei, Han Shan (Cold Mountain), Yuan Mei, Lu Tung Pin - These are just a few of the many great Taoist poets: practitioners who took on, and succeeded beautifully in meeting, the challenge to "speak the unspeakable." Writes Lu Tung Pin: "What is Tao? / It is just this. / It cannot be rendered into speech. / If you insist on an explanation, / This means exactly this."
Sacred Mountains of Taoism
A visual introduction to some of China's most spectacularly beautiful mountain peaks and passes, with an emphasis on those sacred to Taoist practitioners.
A visual introduction to some of China's most spectacularly beautiful mountain peaks and passes, with an emphasis on those sacred to Taoist practitioners.
Taoist Poetry
Poetry has played an important role in Taoist practice - as a cultural expression of the Taoist aesthetic of simplicity and harmony, as well as a form of practice in and of itself.
Poetry has played an important role in Taoist practice - as a cultural expression of the Taoist aesthetic of simplicity and harmony, as well as a form of practice in and of itself.
Poems by Immortal Sun Buer
Sun Buer was a 12th-century Taoist Master, and a wonderful poet!
Sun Buer was a 12th-century Taoist Master, and a wonderful poet!
"The Tang Dynasty & The Tao" ~ essay by Anne Kline
You'll want to sit down with a cup of tea to savor this lovely long and winding essay about Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhist and the amazing Tang Dynasty poets ...
You'll want to sit down with a cup of tea to savor this lovely long and winding essay about Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhist and the amazing Tang Dynasty poets ...
The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters
This little book is one of my all-time favorites - simply delightful!
This little book is one of my all-time favorites - simply delightful!