Walking the Way: 81 Zen Encounters with the Tao Te Ching
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1614290253 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Bob is the author of Zen and the Heart of Psychotherapy. He lives in San Francisco. Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum, PhD, has been a Zen practitioner for forty years and received lay entrustment from Sojun Mel Weitsman of Berkeley Zen Center. He has also been a Fulbright Professor at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in India
Eric Gross said Breathtaking - Moving - Brilliant. I first read the Tao Te Ching when I was about 16. That was a long time ago. I always have several translations available to me. Walking the Way is, in part, a new translation of this sublime classic. But at its heart, it is a revelatory commentary. Each chapter (or verse) has its own commentary, as well as a short reflection taken from the author's personal life. I st. Very good commentary especially for tai chi players zunderzee I play tai chi and do qigong and am interested in the Tao since it permeates both. I've read several translations of the Tao Te Ching and gotten something out of most of them but sometimes it is helpful to me to have a well-thought-out commentary to get my brain going and to leave the sometimes archaic wording of the work and move toward something that connects a littl. Amazon Customer said wisdom ain't ancient. How skillfully this book bring our encounters with the little melodramas of daily life along side the "ancient" wisdom of the Taoist and Zen sages, and demonstrates the inspiration and cosmic meaning lurking beneath the surface of our everyday situations. Illustrating this fundamental reality in such practical terms brings us all useful tools to free ourselves from bot
Bohart, author of How Clients Make Therapy Work)"A warm, thoughtful companion for life's journey." (Peter Levitt, poet and author of Fingerpainting on the Moon)"Fresh and poetic. In sharing his open-hearted love of these verses, Rosenbaum gives them to us anew, as if Lao Tzu were speaking directly to us through him." (Susan Moon, author of This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity)"A pearl of wisdom, filled with deep insights to the most fundamental issues we all encounter in our lives. To read these lovely and tender versions of this breathtaking text is in itself a process of questioning the 'givens' of one's life. Hoyt, author of Brief Psychotherapies)"A book full of wisdom--a gentle breeze, pointing you in new directions." (Arthur C. His humor, wisdom,
Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum brings the two traditions together in a unique presentation that elicits Zen insights from his fresh interpretation of verses from the Taoist classic, the Tao Te Ching. Personal anecdotes illustrate the dynamic potential of Rosenbaum's approach, skillfully revealing Zen within the Tao and the Tao of Zen. Parenting, meditating, dealing with setbacks and illnesses--Walking the Way shows us how to live well in the midst of many complex demands, finding harmony and equilibrium between honing in and letting go, balance between being ourselves and selflessly serving others.. Not only does the author reveal the elegance of each tradition, he shows ho