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Welcome to the Taoism Paperstore ! This section comprises articles and papers dealing with some of the most important Taoist topics or commenting on the Taoist texts. Our papers are intended for people who already have some experience with the Taoist philosophy (or for our students who followed our courses).
They are edited in PDF and are delivered through email or download.
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List of Available Papers
Chuang-tzu and Formal Thinking US$ 10 Discusses about Chuang-tzu's approach of the formal thinking. Another passage from Chuang-tzu that put Sinologists to a lot of trouble, is the one concerning Master's odd behavior on the day of his wife's funeral. This
passage belongs to Book XVIII, paragraph 2: "Perfect Enjoyment". |
Lynn |
The Sage Walks on Tao US$ 15 Discusses a fragment from Tao-te ching in the light of Christian and Taoist ethics. What I am trying to show here is that the translation follows the basic Christian
principles: "The one in need will be satiated" - this one can be found in the "Sermon on the Mount", Mt.: 5. |
Taoist Medicine and Modern Mentality US$ 15 The paper treats of a short story about master Yang and his approach of classical Taoist medicine. The story comes from book Lieh-tzu. The opinion of classical Taoist thinkers on the
practice and efficiency of medicine is entirely surprising in view of what we know about classical Chinese medicine today. Although we are used to trusting the therapeutic effects of acupuncture, for example, and in spite of our belief that it characterized ancient China, Taoist ancient text are completely different in their perspective. We shall further illustrate that attitude with a short tale of master Yang-tzu and one of his friends, who had fallen ill. The latter was
making painful efforts to convince his family that his illness had to be addressed otherwise than the (even nowadays') customary appeal to a doctor's services.
[Paper by Jhian Yang, word count: 1088, PDF, download]
The Philosophy of Naturalness in I-ching US$ 10 The philosophy of I-ching is focused on the idea of change. Change is eternal - both for the cosmical and the human world - and therefore it is necessary to know in due time how to adapt to it. |
Lao-tzu and Emptiness US$ 15 A fragment of Tao-te ching construed in terms of mental emptiness practice. Somewhere in "Tao-te ching" we can find an excerpt translated as follows: "The sage empties
their minds and fills their bellies." |
