A Time To Find Yourself

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	• Chronicles of Tao: The Secret Life of a Taoist Master Ming-dao Deng HarperOne, 1993 - 476 pages average customer review:based on 50 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

excellent read

this book is great -cover to cover, it really gives you a glimpse of what a taoist master goes through to be on the level they are on.a great introduction to taoism.

Wonderful Book

As with any book that touches a cord of truth, you must also remember that it was written by a person. This is a wonderful, warm story about one man's experience with the Tao. It's the kind of book that can enrich your own practice if you alow it to.

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10 stars.

It seems to me that this book has definitely been underrated in one specific area, it's capacity as a teaching manual. Don't misunderstand me, there are no exact step by step instructions, but there is a wealth of information that profoundly elucidates taoist philosophy and practice. For anyone aspiring to the Path, this book is of immeasurable value as encouragement and a thourough grounding in Taoist priciples. I can't say enough in thanks to the author and Master Saihung for allowing his story to be shared.

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A Time To Find Yourself

A masterful spiritual odyssey, a work of great literature, and a time to find yourself. When you start this book you will not be able to put it down. It is such an adventure--you will find it difficult to believe it's true--well 80 percent true. You will encounter a Grand Master who spontaneously ignites a candle and levitates a heavy brass teapot with thought alone ( p. 95) , a beautiful maiden metamorphosing into a six-foot lizard ( p.151),and the wondrous theory behind the creation of the Golden Embryo ( fetus of immortality) ( p.314-5 ) plus much more. Yet only the naive will expect to find the deepest secrets revealed inside a book.We are warned this many times , most notably in the parable of the Seven Bamboo Tablets of the Cloudy Satchel (p.310-12) "Truth ultimately lies not in learning, for one inevitably reaches the limits of one's art," said Slender Gourd."Therefore ,one can attain truth only by transcending the self." This leads to the intellectual climactic paradox of the chronicles, Saihung's insight that : "...All the knowledge of the sages was a tender way of leading the student to the realization that there was something beyond knowledge and facility, something on the other side of high learning. All of civilization was a mere shadow play, a crude projection from the light of truth that had need of neither conceptualization nor structure."(p.312) At the close of the story, we are warned once again: " Though I might find a procedure published in a book, it didn't seem to work until it was taught to me--and invariably details were left out of the writing. I suppose this was what was called 'direct transmission'. It wasn't anything mystical or supernatural. It was the security and power of a lineage, the vitality of being taught."(p.473). For more information see : [...]

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