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Aleister Crowley’s Black Magickal “Tao Teh King”

There are a lot of good English editions of the Daodejing, from scholarly translations by Victor Mair and Robert Henricks to the more poetic version [&hellip
Deeper

Translating the Tao Te Ching (daodejing) — chapter 9

Robin (“Noedel”), writing on Reddit, recently raised an interesting question. “This [Addiss/Lombardo Translation of the Tao Te Ching] seemed to be a very popular translation [&hellip
Cultures

Integrity and the Anonymous Internet

The Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) declares the falseness of names and labels right in its first lines. 道可道非常道. 名可 [&hellip
Cultures

Malcolm Gladwell is wrong

I’ve long had a pet theory that Malcolm Gladwell is a closet Daoist. If you look at his big books, every one of them is [&hellip
Cultures

Scientists Prove that “3 in the Morning” is True (Backwards)

One of Zhuangzi’s most famous stories is “3 in the Morning.” A zookeeper gives monkeys 2 bananas in the morning, and 3 in the afternoon. [&hellip
Cultures

Chipotle Grows Talent Organically – and Profitably

Over at Quartz, Max Nisen has a very interesting article on the unusual — and very successful — culture at Chipotle, the high-end Mexican-ish fast [&hellip
Arts

Jane Hirshfield: “Wrong solitude vinegars the soul”

There are few American writers more criminally under-appreciated than poet Jane Hirshfield. A student of Zen, and a graduate of Princeton (from their first class [&hellip
Cultures

The Modern Axis of Buddhist Hate

Ideology is perhaps man’s most deadly invention. And while we have stereotypes of “good” and “bad” ideologies (Islam = “warlike,” Buddhism = “peaceful”), it’s important [&hellip

Snark

Aleister Crowley’s Black Magickal “Tao Teh King”

January 26th, 2015 | by msalt

There are a lot of good English editions of the Daodejing, from scholarly translations by Victor Mair and Robert Henricks [&hellip

Deeper

Translating the Tao Te Ching (daodejing) — chapter 9

January 17th, 2015 | by msalt

Robin (“Noedel”), writing on Reddit, recently raised an interesting question. “This [Addiss/Lombardo Translation of the Tao Te Ching] seemed to [&hellip