Zen and the Art of Motercycle Mantainence!
Greetings..
Some of my favorites…
Deng Ming Dao: Chronicles of Tao; Scholar Warrior; 365 Tao..
Alan Watts: Tao, The Watercourse Way; The Book; most other books he wrote..
Mantak Chia: Inner Structure of Tai Chi
Yang Jwing Ming: Too Many to List..
Tao Te Ching.. Collect several translations, Jane English is my favorite..
I Ching: collect several translations.. Taoist I Ching is my favorite..
Wulf Lowenthal: There Are No Secrets Here; Gateway to the Miraculous..
Jan Diepersloot: Warriors of Stillness (1 and 2)
Tai Chi, a Path to Wisdom.. i can’t remember the author, but good material..
Max Ehrman: Desiderata, a short poem found on many web-sites, a search will yield many sites..
When i get home i’ll look at my library, this is just from memory..
Oh, and of course.. Tao of Jeet Kune Do, by Bruce Lee..
Just some of my favorites.. Be well..
Hmmmm
I’ve got to be honest but eating meals which consistently contain raw uncooked food is not gonna make you a very healthy person, from a Chinese medicine point of view but in fact the very opposite. Eating loads of raw foods will put a strain on the Spleen and stomach to constantly activate energy to bring it all up to the right internal temperature for effective digestion. And if the body doesn’t do that then you’ll end up getting constant distension and retention of food in the stomach too.
I personally do not agree with strict Vegetarian diets from a health point of view, but do understand them from a spiritual point of view. A great example of this was when His Holiness The Dalai Lama deicded he would recommence eating meat to save his failing health from that of the vegetarian diet’s inability to do anything for his health.
Still each to his/her own.
By the way Paul Repps “Zen flesh, Zen bones” is an excellent book and absolutely anything written the hand of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche is as true as you can get.
This is just weird…
This thread is 2.5 years old. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a thread this old get resurrected.
Anyway, some more inspirational books:
The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Zen Mind, Beginners Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
Already Dead - Denis Johnson
Hmmm
Please NO Carl Sagan …please!!!
It’s probably a wise idea for people without a skeptical bone in their body to at least expose themselves to one alternate way of thinking. The Sagan book is a good resource for that. Even if you don’t agree with him, sometimes reading something you don’t agree with is a good way to organize your thoughts as to what you do and don’t believe.
Wow, this is a total bugout because I started this thread-my handle was brucelee2 at the time. Time sure flies, huh? Lotta changes since then. A really good spiritual book I have read recently is called Bringing Heaven Down to Earth.
No Death No Fear
Thich Naht Hahn
Changed me!
I just got Chi Kung-Way of Power , from the library last night. It looks really cool, I read about half of it so far and am going to start practicing the stuff today.
He,he.Nice shot Dwid.
Sagan is highly recommended reading for any rationally thinking person (or one who might want to learn how to-)