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Tao: The Watercourse Way by Alan W. Watts

Tao: The Watercourse Way Alan W. Watts ebook
ISBN: 9780394733111
Page: 134
Format: pdf
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The Watercourse Way is a way of acting from the heart and following natures flow just as when a leaf falls it follows the wind; when it falls in water, it flows with the water. If you liked my post on Wu Wei, you'll love this book. Chuang-tzu, who lived after Lao-tzu, wrote extensively on the principles that Lao-tzu laid out in the Tao Te Ching. Alan Watt's last book, Tao: The Watercourse Way, is my favorite. I'd recommend a book by Alan Watts (I hope I got the spelling right), called Tao: The Watercourse Way. (Alan Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way, Pantheon Books, 1975, p. The philosopher Alan Watts called the Tao “the watercourse way” for good reason. (Huang & Lynch, 1995) This can be challenging. That too is part of the Tao of strategy, the watercourse way: allowing the right action to arise of its own accord. Taoism is about working with the flow of nature rather than against it. Alan Watts - posted in General Discussion: Hi, I'm reading Tao the Watercourse Way and in it Alan Watts states that neither Lao Tzu nor Chuang Tzu mentions the I Ching. He is British and sharp as a razor, and his use of analogy is entertaining and clarifying. Apr 3, 2012 Adam Khan bewertung 5,0/5,0: Alan Watts is obviously an extremely intelligent and well-read man who has a wonderful way of writing. [3] The Song Dynasty, considered by some to be the pinnacle of classical Chinese civilization, existed between the years 960 and 1279. It really had a great impact on me when I read it and it's a wonderful explanation of some fundamental concepts of Tao. Alan Watts says as much, in fact, in his book Tao: The Watercourse Way, when he describes the concept around li as “analagous to Kropotkin's anarchy”.