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Book Creativity and Taoism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chung-yuan Chang
  • Publisher : Singing Dragon
  • Release : 2011-07-15
  • ISBN : 0857010476
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Creativity and Taoism written by Chung-yuan Chang and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creativity and Taoism, Chang Chung-yuan makes the elusive principle of Tao available to the western mind with objectivity, warmth, and depth of insight. It is an important contribution to the task of making the Taoist wisdom accessible to the western intellect' - Ira Progoff 'No one can read Chang's book without experiencing a broadening of his mental horizons' - John C. H. Wu, Philosophy East and West 'His interpretation of the Taoist roots of Ch'an has been presented with taste and learning that help to clear up many questions that must have occurred to anyone familiar with his subject. "The Spirit of the Valley" dwells in this quiet and gentle man who, as so rarely happens, actually embodies some of the philosophic traits of which he writes' - Gerald Sykes 'If the end of reading is the enhancement of life, the enlargement of experience and understanding, then this book becomes an important step in that direction. Dr. Chang writes in a style both lucid and felicitous. He displays with becoming modesty a mastery of the field, its development and its ideas... There is hardly a page which does not give pleasure' - Robert R. Kirsh, Los Angeles Times 'Professor Chang's study, a brilliant exposition and analysis, is concerned with the relevance and applicability of the Taoist view in Chinese artistic and intellectual creativity. Few other works facilitate so sensitive an understanding of creative impulse and expression in Chinese culture' - Hyman Kublin, Library Journal Simultaneously accessible and scholarly, this classic book considers the underlying philosophy and the aesthetics of Chinese art and poetry, the expression of the Taoist approach to existence. Chapters cover everything from the potential of creativity to the way tranquillity is reflected in Chinese poems and painting. Chung-yuan Chang's deceptively simple and always lucid narrative explores the relationship between the Tao and the creative arts, introducing classic paintings and poems to bring Taoism to life.

Book Creativity and Taoism

Download or read book Creativity and Taoism written by Chung-Yuan Chang and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creativity and Taoism  A Study of Chinese Philosophy  Art    Poetry

Download or read book Creativity and Taoism A Study of Chinese Philosophy Art Poetry written by Zhongyuan Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tao   A New Way of Thinking

Download or read book Tao A New Way of Thinking written by Chung-yuan Chang and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2013-12-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional translation of the Tao Tê Ching by Chinese scholar Chung-yuan Chang reveals the true wisdom and beauty of this ancient Chinese text. Traditionally attributed to Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu, the Tao Tê Ching remains relevant worldwide today, more than two thousand years after it was written. This translation of the Taoist text, with Chang's accompanying commentaries, illuminates the real meaning of the Tao Tê Ching and makes this Chinese classic both accessible and relevant to modern ways of thinking, without any reduction of the complex thought within its pages. Chang Chung-yuan is unique in his approach and his introduction and commentaries place the Taoist text in the context of Western metaphysics, making reference to Heidegger, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Jung, Plato, Kant and Nietzsche, as well as capturing the context within which Taoism came to the West. Tao: A New Way of Thinking will be fascinating to anyone with an interest in Taoism and will be particularly appealing to those interested in comparative philosophy.

Book Creativity and Taoism

Download or read book Creativity and Taoism written by Zhongyuan Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contemporary Daoism  Organic Relationality  and Curriculum of Integrative Creativity

Download or read book Contemporary Daoism Organic Relationality and Curriculum of Integrative Creativity written by Hongyu Wang and published by IAP. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity in the West is often perceived as “cutting edge” and “ground-breaking” in a singular act of giving birth to the new. However, to what degree has this model of breaking away from others and the world contributed to the current crisis in education, society, and ecology even before the tragic COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it? How can our reimagining of creativity contribute to the mutual flourishing of humanity and of relations between humans and the planet? Daoist creativity, based upon relationality and interdependence, has much to offer to today’s curriculum as a complicated conversation to sustain life and renew the world. Integrative, emergent, embodied, co-creative, and ecological, Daoist creativity has a built-in opening to difference through the organic relationality of Yin/Yang dynamics. This book focuses on one essential thread in Daoism—integrative creativity through organic relationality—and weaves its interplay with Western thought through multiple and intertwined dimensions of curriculum. Exploring Dao as dynamic and setting creative curriculum in motion, this book juxtaposes the notion of Wuwei and self-organization to conceptualize emergent classroom dynamics, and re-envisions the inner landscape of education through negotiating dialogues between the Jungian psyche and Daoist dynamics. Further, it explores gendered implications of Daoism to interact with feminism and formulates the pursuit of inner and outer peace through creative harmony to inform nonviolence curriculum. Synthesizing cross-cultural insights and wisdom, it provides an in-depth and intuitive understanding of the interactions between Daoist and Western creativity and elaborates a curriculum of integrative creativity for students, teachers, and their educational community. Let us all attend to the urgent call for individual and collective awakenings and for creativity that connects. Praise for Contemporary Daoism, Organic Relationality, and Curriculum of Integrative Creativity: "Hongyu Wang’s book on Daoism is a treasure. It is beautifully written and includes a diverse literature that demonstrates her impressive scholarship. She explores the relevance of Daoism’s ancient wisdom to many current issues including gender, nonviolence, peace education, as well as teaching and learning. This is an important addition to growing literature on Daoism. In a time of division we need Daoism’s cosmic perspective on how we can live peacefully and harmoniously on this earth." ~ Jack Miller The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto "One barrier to meaningful educational reform is our inability to imagine things differently. Wang’s study offers a set of lenses drawn from Chinese Daoism that could stimulate meaningful educational reform by envisioning a curriculum that moves beyond analytical reasoning toward more peaceful, humane, and ecologically sustainable ways of teaching, learning, and knowing. Along the way, Wang explores the links between Daoism and complexity theory and Daoism’s compatibilities and contrasts with aspects of Western philosophy, including recent scholarship on eco-feminism. Educators will be intrigued by this study of Daoism as a form of embodied curriculum that works toward the development of authentic personhood and transformative interconnectedness through an emphasis on lived experience in tandem with intellectual developmentand they will be inspired to examine and rethink their current practice." ~ Gay Garland Reed Professor Emerita, University of Hawaii "Honyu Wang’s book offers us a solution for nowadays crises like social and ecological ones, by pointing out that the integrative creativity and curriculum is the key...Her ideas are accessible and can enrich our perspective as educationists. The novelty and uniqueness of the book is that it makes a bridge between Western culture and East culture, between past and present and it is also a bridge from today to the future of the entire Earth." ~ Maria Butucea, Teacher Training Department, Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest

Book Creativity and Taoism  a Study of Chinese Philosophy  Art  and Poetry

Download or read book Creativity and Taoism a Study of Chinese Philosophy Art and Poetry written by Tsjang tsjoeng-yoean and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creativity and Tao

Download or read book Creativity and Tao written by Dao-Wen Chang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Creative Tao

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela K. Metz
  • Publisher : Green Dragon Books
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 0893342556
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Creative Tao written by Pamela K. Metz and published by Green Dragon Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be inspired to discover and explore new facets of your innate creative potential, while remaining stress-free and focused. Our everyday creative achievements define our individual and unique way of living, which is our creative Tao. Poetic and insightful, this sensitive and understanding interpretation of the Tao shows us how to transform creativity in art into creativity in living. Unveil the creativity dwelling inside you.

Book Effortless Living

Download or read book Effortless Living written by Jason Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for achieving an enlightened mind through the art of non-doing • Details meditation practices, focused on stillness of the mind, along with Patanjali’s yoga methods to maintain a consciousness referred to as “being in the zone” • Builds on Taoist, Confucian, and Hindu principles along with scientific findings to support wu-wei--the art of non-doing, non-forcing--as a way of life • Explains how wu-wei practitioners cultivate intelligent spontaneity and effortless action to allow the natural harmony of the cosmos to prevail The practice of non-doing, non-forcing is an essential aspect of Taoism known as wu-wei. Attributed to the great sage Lao-tzu, the philosophy of wu-wei teaches you how to develop a natural state of consciousness not bound by thought or preconceived limitations. Experienced by the greatest artists, athletes, musicians, and writers, this heightened state of consciousness, referred to as “being in the zone,” is where intelligent spontaneity and effortless action flourish via a practice rooted in permitting the natural harmony of the cosmos to prevail. Merging Taoist philosophy, Hindu principles, and Confucianism along with scientific findings, Jason Gregory outlines the practice of wu-wei as a vehicle to realize our innate freedom, revealing that when we release our ego and allow life to unfold as it will, we align ourselves more closely with our goals and cultivate skill and mastery along the way. Equating “being in the zone” with a stillness of the mind, Gregory shares meditation practices coupled with yoga exercises from Patanjali that allow you to approach life with a mastery of acceptance, releasing deluded beliefs of how to achieve success that make your mind “sticky” and poised for conflict. The author shows how practicing wu-wei paradoxically empowers you to accomplish all that you desire by having no intention to do so, as well as allowing you to become receptive to nature’s blueprint for expressing beauty. Revealing wisdom utilized by renowned sages, artists, and athletes who have adapted “being in the zone” as a way of life, the author shows that wu-wei can yield a renewed sense of trust in many aspects of your daily life, making each day more effortless. As an avid wu-wei practitioner, he provides keen insight on how you, too, can experience the beauty of achieving an enlightened, effortless mind while reveling in the process of life’s unfolding.

Book Creativity and Taoism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zhongyuan Zhang
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Creativity and Taoism written by Zhongyuan Zhang and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creativity and Taoism  a Study of Chinese Philosophy  Art  and Poetry

Download or read book Creativity and Taoism a Study of Chinese Philosophy Art and Poetry written by Chang Chung-yuan and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creativity and Spirituality

Download or read book Creativity and Spirituality written by Earle Jerome Coleman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from six living faiths, this book philosophically analyzes relations between art and religion in order to explain how the concepts "art," "beauty," "creativity," and "aesthetic experience" find their place or counterparts in religious discourse and experience.

Book Creativity in the Art of Zen and Taoism

Download or read book Creativity in the Art of Zen and Taoism written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creativity as Process in Taoism

Download or read book Creativity as Process in Taoism written by Chung-Yuan Chang and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Creativity Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Maisel
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2000-06-19
  • ISBN : 1440629064
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Creativity Book written by Eric Maisel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whatever you do, says Dr. Eric Maisel, creativity helps you do it better. Creativity encourages the artist to paint more frequently and authentically. It allows a busy executive to see her options more quickly, make changes more fluidly, and become more self-directing and confident. In this book, America's foremost expert on the psychological side of the creative process presents a complete one-year plan for increasing and unleashing your creativity. It includes two disucssions/exercises per week, and culminates in a guided project of your choice—from working on a current novel or symphony to planning a new home business or becoming a more effective supervisor.

Book The Tao Of Writing

Download or read book The Tao Of Writing written by Ralph L Wahlstrom and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book in the series applies Eastern philosophies to writing exercises. By tapping into the true flow of their creativity, writers can discover and develop their talents. The author uses the connection between teaching, writing and the tenets of the tao to help writers hone their craft from a new perspective.