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| Author(s) : Hung Ying-ming and translated by William Scott Wilson, foreword by Red Pine |
| Publishers Price : £13.99 |
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| ISBN : 4770030975 | | EAN : 9784770030979 | | Cover : Hardback | | Pages : 224 | | Size : 196 x 140mm | | Publisher : Kodansha | | Published : 2010 |
Category : China: Land and Culture
Category 2 : Taoism
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Synopsis:
A forgotten Chinese classic that offers thoughts on life, human nature, and how to live well and simply. The reclusive sage Hung Ying-ming lived his life far from the crowds, and left behind a treasure of a book.
According to the translator, Williams Scott Wilson, Hung was "a happy contemplative who believed that by combining a simple elegance with the ordinary, men and women could make their lives into artistic and poetic affairs". In other words, the essence of an unencumbered spirit.
"The Unencumbered Spirit is perhaps the very finest literary expression of the unity of the three creeds - Confucianism, Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, and Taoism...As such, it is a tour de force of Chinese tradition expressed in a very palatable form, a product of over two millennia of rumination on, and digestion of, three of the most profound thought-systems in human history." William Scott Wilson.
"I recommend this work to anyone interested in the way of the world's greatest sages whose teachings can help us all to see into and improve our own lives." Bill Porter (Red Pine). |
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