taoism discussion

It's really bizarre that taoism has become a cash-grab for an American market.

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>>9371302
Has it? I doubt that is a coincidence. Maybe taoism is rising because the world more than ever needs tao. I can't see how it could go wrong since greed has no need for tao and tao has no need for greed. The age of piglet is upon us.

>>9371429
Yah. There's no way the western world could possibly corrupt ancient eastern spiritual principles.

>>9371429

>Maybe taoism is rising because the world more than ever needs tao
That's not how the world works. 'The world' needs a lot of shit, none of which comes falling from the sky because the world needs it.

>>9371485
But it's how tao works

go to bed

Intro to philosophical Daoism, Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism:
An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy by JeeLoo Liu

Intro to religious Daoism and its long history:
Introducing Daoism by Livia Kohn

Yijing:
The Complete I-Ching by Alfred Huang
(the Yijing is a proto-Confucian and proto-Daoist text, in addition to being a divination book)

Daodejing:
The Daodejing of Laozi by Ivanhoe
(this translation is also contained in its entirety in Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, which is an anthology with some of these writers, Confucius, Mencius, and more)

Zhuangzi:
The Complete Works of Zhuangzi by Burton Watson

Neiye:
Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism by Harold D. Roth

Liezi:
The Book of Lieh-Tzu by A.C. Graham

Wenzi:
Wen-Tzu by Thomas Clearly

Hanfeizi:
Han Feizi: Basic Writings by Burton Watson
(it's a foundtional text for Legalism, but Han Fei also commented on the Daodejing and made into the over 5000 texts of the Daozang, the Daoist canon)

>>9371458
>muh uncorrupted Eastern way!!!
>muh Western boogie man

Hahaha stfu

>>9371429
The Ching of Tigger?

>>9374264
that sounds too racist

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>>9374264
Looking forward to it