Dragon's play : a new Taoist transmission of the complete experience of human life

by Charles Belyea

Other authorsSteven Tainer, Lin Xiao-Lun (Illustrator)
Paperback, 1991

Publication

Imprint: Berkeley : Great Circle Lifeworks, c1991. Responsibility: Charles Belyea and Steven Tainer with illustrations by Xiao-Lun Lin. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Call number

GT-D / Belye

Barcode

BK-03035

ISBN

9780962930812

CSS Library Notes

Description: Dragon's Play is an entertaining story with a vast and classical purpose. Through the medium of a simple, beautifully illustrated folk tale, this book offers a new presentation of the Taoist view of life, highlighting twelve central facets of human experience. It shows how life unfolds within the wondrous, nurturing embrace of Nature, like a dragon at play. --- from back cover

Table of Contents: Introduction
PART ONE : twelve facets of our relationship to nature
Basic questions about the stages of cultivating the way
PART TWO : commentaries
Discovering monkey
Monkey meets sage
Journeying together
Embarking on the way
Reaching the mountain
The cloudless summit
Attaining the way
The laws of nature
Returning from nowhere
The earthly Hsien
The heavenly Hsien
Return to the source

FY1992 / FY2015

Physical description

xi, 196 p.; 23 cm

Language

Original language

English

Subjects

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