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Greetings /lit/,

I'd like to learn about chi, and how to use it.

What books would you reccomend? Pic related, this seems to be a good starting point.

Also, eastern literature thread general, if you wish.

>> No.3119504

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYxCrugJj_o

do as he does

>> No.3119511

I love Tao the Chink, but why would you post the edition with the typos on the cover?

>> No.3119516

>>3119511
Comical value.

>> No.3119517

>>>/x/

>> No.3119518

First you have to understand that chi is just a word. Just like energy, it's just a word. The meaning of these words vary depending on the context, they work because of conventions.

Eastern thought is very distant from Western though, so no wonder some things sound weird to our ears. It's complicated as shit to translate any language based on pictograms into the typographical line by line mindset of western languages.

So next time you hear "throw your chi in his fucking face", don't think Dragonball Z Kamehameha, think of regular actions and how these actions are engulfed in intentions, surrounded by circumstance, fueled by motivations that are below the surface of what you are aware about yourself.

You need a hollistic perspective, not an analytic and systematic one.

>> No.3119531

Go to bed Tao

>> No.3119530

look into Alan Watts to help get a good understanding of what the Tao Teh Ching is all about

>> No.3119537

>>3119518
Well, I'd like to learn about Taoism in general. I'm looking for a canon or list of book around the concept of Chi, and if I have to understand Taoism then so be it.

>> No.3119554

>>3119537

Another important Daoist text is Zhuangzi. I actually like it more than Daodejing. For literature, you could read _Journey to the West_ as a Daoist novel of sorts. Daoism is very interesting and worth your time learning about

>> No.3119557

"Teh"

>> No.3119567

>>3119554
Fantastic, thank you.

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3119588

>>3119531
>being this ignorant

Nigger, you'd best be trolling

>> No.3119623

>>3119554

Zhuangzi is only daoist in the sense that his writings were adopted and added to by daoists after the fact.