Is Daoism Chinese?
March 10th, 2018 | by msalt
Underlying many of the fierce arguments about whether Westerners are appropriating Daoism is a basic question: is Daoism Chinese? If [&hellip
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Spooky Action at a Distance
October 23rd, 2015 | by msalt
Einstein was wrong. As insightful as he was about the nature of the universe, the most famous Western genius since [&hellip
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
Integrity and the Anonymous Internet
January 9th, 2015 | by msalt
The Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) declares the falseness of names and labels right in its first lines. 道 可 道 [&hellip
Scientists Prove that “3 in the Morning” is True (Backwards)
April 7th, 2014 | by msalt
One of Zhuangzi’s most famous stories is “3 in the Morning.” A zookeeper gives monkeys 2 bananas in the morning, [&hellip
DISCOVERED:
A lost section of the Tao Te Ching
March 2nd, 2014 | by msalt
What is below is soil, but we call it ‘earth’. What is above is vapor, but we call it ‘heaven’. [&hellip
New (Ancient) Texts of the Tao Te Ching (Daodejing)
February 20th, 2014 | by msalt
Last summer I wrote an post about a new edition of the Daodejing that had been found in China. It [&hellip
A Rhyming Tao Te Ching
February 18th, 2014 | by msalt
It’s not cool to rhyme any more, even in poetry. (Songs still get an exemption for some reason.) So it’s [&hellip
New set of ancient texts (including Daodejing) discovered
July 15th, 2013 | by msalt
NOTE: This post is based on my misreading of an ambiguous New York Times article, as Scott Barnwell notes in [&hellip
I got nothing
March 26th, 2013 | by msalt
Neil DeGrasse Tyson leads a discussion about the meaning and/or existence of nothing here. The discussion is about science more [&hellip
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