DalTheJigsaw123 Posted January 19, 2013 You can do that or you can go to a bookshop/library/google and read it for free totally your choice, sometimes I do both. Suggestions? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DalTheJigsaw123 Posted January 19, 2013 I download the majority for free, generally not new ones or ones ones by authors who need the money as there is a moral issue. Suggestions? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OnPhourCoughee Posted January 19, 2013 The way to freedom. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydog Posted January 19, 2013 Suggestions? Suggestions of books I like Im guessing your asking. Well lately Im in a mood of being frustrated with trying and see chuang tzus book as offering the most wisdom there is. http://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html Often people think the more they read the better, but im willing to bet just this one book is good enough.. peace Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flolfolil Posted January 19, 2013 should i personally don't believe in this word at all, but if we are talking shoulds and should nots i think the people who write this kind of stuff should make it in an understandable language. Great you can read it, but if you had noone to tell you what it really meant you would have never figured it out. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GrandmasterP Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) I wonder. If we couldn't read at all any text would be meaningless but we were taught to read and in learning we absorbed the reading patterns , grammar and structure of 'our' language along with all the cultural baggage that entails. Then we read texts translated from ideograms developed by a culture totally alien to those of us raised in the west. Plenty of people out there want to tell us what it 'really' means ( i.e. what they think it means) but don't you think that most western readers of TTC or CZ sorta make their own meanings based on their own life journey so far along with a selective reading of the various interpretations out there? Edited January 19, 2013 by GrandmasterP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thunder_Gooch Posted January 19, 2013 Go read a copy of Taoist Yoga by Charles Luk, it's not too far off. It looks more like trolling lol. This forum! haha Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jetsun Posted January 19, 2013 Suggestions? www.theoccult.bz/ will give you a few lifetimes of material to read you just have to find a way to get invited Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Birch Posted January 19, 2013 Sometimes I wish I read and understood ideograms. I wonder too how different people perceive them. I wonder if it's possible for many people to have different levels of understanding of them. My (vague) understanding of Chinese is that terms are much looser and context-dependent really. Not like English where the words impose upon the context (methinks). So there you have my romantic misunderstood fantasy of ideograms. ----opinion--- Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
