Decoding Dao

Book Notes x
Chronology xi
Section One: The Context
Chapter One The Social and Political Background--Confucianism--Mozi and Mohism (Moe-ds) and(Moe-ism)--Yang Zhu and Shen Dao (Ya-ahng, Jew)--Language and Logicians--Trends During the Warring StatesEra--Cultural Heroes and Concepts--Summary 3
Section Two: Authors and Texts
Chapter Two The Dao De Jing--Why Does the Dao DeJing/Tao Te Ching/Laozi/Lao Tzu Have So Many Names?-- Dao DeJing, The Author--Dao De Jing, the Text--The Dao De Jing,the Style of the Text--The Dao De Jing in the West-- TheZhuangzi, the Author--The Zhuangzi, the Text--The
Zhuangzi, the Style of the Text--The Zhuangzi in theWest--Issues in Translation--Summary
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Chapter Three The Dao? A Dao? Dao? daos?dao?--Images: 49
Water, Women, Baby, Root, and Others--What Is theProblem?--Conventional Values: Pairs of Opposites-- Beingand Non-Being--Summary
Chapter Four IllogicalStatements?--Decoding--Not Acting, Not Knowing, NotDesiring--Ziran, Self-So, Natural,Spontaneous--Language--Morality--Summary 70
Chapter Five War--Government, Society, and the Sage-Ruler--The Golden Age--Advice for Would-BeSages--Losing dao--Summary 90
Chapter Six What Is theProblem?--Anti-Confucians-- Anti-Mohists--BeingUseless--Point of View--This and That--KnowingHow--Knowing What--Summary 111
Chapter Seven Language: Convention andCulture--This/ That, True/False--Language Is OK, Up to aPoint-- How to Use Language--Clarity--Death--Transformation--Survival of Consciousness and anAfterlife--Immortality--Dao--Summary 132
Chapter Eight Public Life--The Golden Age--WhatShould We Do?--Mirror--Forgetting--Mind/HeartFasting--Perfected People--The Relationship of the Dao DeJing and the Zhuangzi--Summary 156
Section Three: Developing Dao
Chapter Nine The School of Zhuangzi and Followers of theDao De Jing--The Han Feizi--The Guanzi--Huang-Lao--The Huainanzi--The Liezi--The Han Dynasty andBeyond--Summary
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Chapter Ten Organized Daoism--The Search forImmortality--Organized Groups--The Cult of Laozi--Modern Organized Daoism--The Mystical Reading-- ThePhilosophical Reading--Modern Daoism--Dao Lite--ALao-Zhuang Daoist--What Is Daoism and Other Problems 202
Glossary of Technical Terms 232
Glossary of Pronunciation 235
Further Reading 237
Bibliography 239
Index 252