What does it mean to have an 'old soul'? And what can the Wolverine, space aliens, and ancient Chinese philosophers tell us about what it means to really love?
https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/courage-language-and-daoist-literature-18a
I would like to be able to read daodejing in chinese, but for now, my chinese is not really good, so Ill have to settle with translation work.
What translations do you use, or can you recommend?
Im just checking if this community is alive.
Im very interested in daoism at the moment, particularily because it feeds into the world view Im making.
Im currently looking into an excellent translation of daodejing into conservative newnorwegian "Boka om vegen og dygda" (The book of the way and the deed) by Ole Bjørn Rongen. The book has three parts. The first part is explaining the methodology of the translation, the second is the resulting tranalation, and the third is commentary and word by word analysis.
People sometimes ask me how I can call myself a 'hermit', when I live in the city, am married, etc. Here's my answer: https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/what-is-a-hermit?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true
From 365 Tao: Daily Meditations by Deng Ming-Dao.
Something from the past but which I found surprisingly apropos to our times.
https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/the-ugly-canadian-a22?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true
How much effort does it take to achieve excellence?
Why do I call myself a "Daoist hermit"? https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/whither-daoism-28f?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true
How does working on self-change affect our moral reasoning?
In this article I give something of a spiritual autobiography to explain more what Daoist internal alchemy is all about.
Just what is Taijiquan? Is it a martial art? Is it meditation? Qigong? https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/internal-alchemy-or-neidan-qigong-834?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true
It's not such a strange idea---but not what people often think. https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/secret-teachings-837?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Here's a little discussion about activism based on the ancient Confucian Mencius.
Just what is the relationship between professionalism, ethics, and emotions?
#Professionalism #Ethics #Emotions
https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/the-dao-of-emotions?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true
How many of us understand what communication is really all about? #Daoism #Taoism #Communication
https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/the-dao-of-communication?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I'm working through some issues from an old episode of Stargate Atlantis to explain some ideas I have about time.
https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/the-dao-of-time?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true
How does and intelligent and sensitive person deal with the Climate Emergency? Or any other really depressing aspect of life? https://open.substack.com/pub/billhulet/p/the-dao-and-pessimism-52a?r=4ot1q2&showWelcomeOnShare=true #ClimateChange #Daoism #Taoism
