[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 148 KB, 960x901, art sitting.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
20217530 No.20217530 [Reply] [Original]

I have read the Tao Te Ching. What else should I read about Taoism?

>> No.20217701

Read the Zuanghzi retard

>> No.20217721

Zhuangzi as mentioned and Liezi make up the traditional canon along with the DDJ. The Zhuangzi is by far the largest and has a lot to offer, but aside from these three the next best place to go in my opinion is zen buddhism, which has a big literature.

>> No.20217734

>>20217701
fpbp /thread

>> No.20217846

anything written by Eva Wong

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/58094.Eva_Wong

>> No.20218062

>>20217530
>What else should I read
No thing ;)

>> No.20218177 [SPOILER] 
File: 9 KB, 274x184, 1649871351903.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
20218177

Qur'an, unironically cus it's a dead tradition and we're not, but we're a lot closer than you think, and either way we're right senpai

>> No.20218265
File: 76 KB, 720x715, 203b39b65ae0326b5c87b97578d036105e57859c2488665cdbaedad3e146ac0c_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
20218265

>>20218177
>dead tradition and we're not

>> No.20218581

I Ching. I read a bunch of Thomas Cleary’s translations of this and that but it was like 20 years ago. There’s philosophical taoism, if that’s all you care about then fpbp /thread and all that, but there is also tons of stuff about internal alchemy which, like it or not, is more what “real” taoism ended up being. Cleary translated a bunch of this stuff.
I Ching underlies and predates both taoism and confucianism. Ymmv depending on the commentary that goes with it. Doing divination with it is actually a good way to penetrate it, you will get to know it better than doing a cover to cover reading.
Zen Buddhism isn’t taoism and chan Buddhism still isn’t taoism. Watch wu tang vs shaolin if you don’t believe me. But if you go there at least read some Chih I/Zhiyi.

>> No.20218597

>>20218581
>Zen
>Chan
same thing

>> No.20218612

>>20218597
Chan is chinese, zen is japanese. You make slant eyes up for one and down for the other.

>> No.20219514

>>20217530
Zhuangzi, Liezi, Yijing (already mentioned). Huainanzi, you can find it in Thomas Cleary's Taoist Classics Volume 1. Check out the alchemical stuff, some of it is worth it, found in Taoist Classics Vol. 2-4. Caigentan/Vegetable Roots Discourse is comfy (translated by Robert Aitken). The Neiye can be found in The Thread of Dao by Dan Reid. The Daoist Tradition by Komjathy is a great (legitimate) overview of the history. You can find the Qingjing jing online (it's short). Let me know if you have anymore questions.

>> No.20219863

>>20219514
Why is Taoism?
I’ll hang up and listen