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Subject: Re: [Leica] tao and haiku
From: bachchaconne@my-deja.com
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 14:21:10 +0800

>> I dunno about the book you read, but Chuang Tzu, like everything in
>> philosophical Taoism (as opposed to the polytheistic religious
>> "aberration"), is atheist.  The highly stylized stories/rhetoric are
>> not to be taken literally.
>>
>> Andrew
>
>Ah, interesting. Perhaps I'll give it another go, after I finish the 
>round of Bukowski novels I picked up yesterday.

More on Chuang Tzu:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/cz-list.htm

Lin Yutang was a truly-bilingual writer-cum-scholar and his
translation (dealing with 11 chapters out of 33) is among the best.

Andrew
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