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"""This is a real treasury, wonderfully organized and translated... full of all sorts of connections to all that we love most about China."" - Red Pine (Bill Porter), author of ""Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits"" and translator of ""Lao-Tzu's Taoteching: with Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years"" Ancient Chinese meditation and mindfulness traditions were often imparted through Daoist wisdom on governance and health preservation. Within these teachings lie subtle instructions in ""the art of the heart-mind"" -- the Sages' technique for self purification, cultivating enlightenment and harmony within, and fostering virtue throughout the world. While Lao Zi is said to be the founder of Daoism (Taoism) and author of the Dao De Jing, his classic on attaining the way of Nature is believed to have transmitted an earlier oral tradition. Modern scholars now believe that four texts, found in the ancient ""Guan Zi"" encyclopedia, are likely to have predated the completion of the Dao De Jing. These texts, ""Purifying the Heart-Mind (Bai Xin),"" ""Art of the Heart-Mind (Xin Shu I&II),"" and ""Internal Cultivation (Nei Ye),"" provide exceptionally direct explanations of Daoist spiritual, mental, and energetic cultivation, making them invaluable keys to the teachings of early Daoist masters. Thread of Dao translates and explores these texts alongside comparable teachings in the Dao De Jing and other Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and traditional Chinese medical sources, tracing their origins to a common thread of wisdom. In translating Guan Zi's ""Purifying the Heart-Mind (Bai Xin),"" ""Art of the Heart-Mind (Xin Shu I&II),"" and ""Internal Cultivation (Nei Ye),"" Reid justifies the ""received"" version of these texts, rather than adopting revisions commonly accepted by modern scholars, making Thread of Dao a valuable contribution to several fields of Chinese studies, including Daoist and Buddhist Studies, pre-Qin history, Classical Chinese, and Chinese Political Science."

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"""This is a real treasury, wonderfully organized and translated... full of all sorts of connections to all that we love most about China."" - Red Pine (Bill Porter), author of ""Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits"" and translator of ""Lao-Tzu's Taoteching: with Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years"" Another great book from Dan Reid. I enjoyed his earlier book, The Ho-Shang Kung Commentary on Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. For those curious about earlier precedents to what we think of as early Daoism or for seekers who enjoy the Dao De Jing and Zhuangzi, you'll want to follow these earlier ""threads of the Dao"" with Dan Reid. - Greg Ripley, author of ""Tao of Sustainability: Cultivate Yourself to Heal the Earth"" (Three Pines Press)"

This is a real treasury, wonderfully organized and translated... full of all sorts of connections to all that we love most about China. - Red Pine (Bill Porter), author of Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits and translator of Lao-Tzu's Taoteching: with Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years Another great book from Dan Reid. I enjoyed his earlier book, The Ho-Shang Kung Commentary on Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. For those curious about earlier precedents to what we think of as early Daoism or for seekers who enjoy the Dao De Jing and Zhuangzi, you'll want to follow these earlier threads of the Dao with Dan Reid. - Greg Ripley, author of Tao of Sustainability: Cultivate Yourself to Heal the Earth (Three Pines Press)

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