The Unencumbered Spirit: Reflections of a Chinese Sage - Couverture rigide

Ying-Ming, Hung

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 4770030975 ISBN 13 : 9784770030979

Editeur : Kodansha International Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Yingming Hung

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a tour de force on the essence of life, human nature, and how to live a good simple life - all distilled through the lens of the Three Creeds: Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Hung Ying-ming and many of the literati had an almost mystical concept of literature. Just as the patterns of a flight of birds express the underlying principles of nature, so the patterns of the best literature express the Tao, or the Way, in man. "The Unencumbered Spirit" is a handbook of the Way, its verses to be intuitively and spontaneously understood through contemplation and meditation. The great value of "The Unencumbered Spirit" is that so many of the vital seeds of contemplation have been set down in this single volume with inspired clarity. In Hung's poetic prose are expressed the infinite transformations of the world's opposites - what the Chinese called yin and yang - good and evil, honesty and deception, wisdom and foolishness, being and non-being. Wise, profound, spiritual, witty, and timeless, "The Unencumbered Spirit" is about rejecting desire and greed. It is a book about revealing clear Truth, stripping away all the extraneous layers of self-deception and phenomenal attachment. It is a book about living without stuff, whether material, psychological, or spiritual. It is about living with simplicity and awareness of ultimate truth.

Biographie de l'auteur

Hung Ying-ming we know almost nothing about, except that he lived around the end of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and that he was extraordinarily well-read and cultured. He was a man who found fulfilment in classic literature, the study of nature, and the practice of various accomplishments, from calligraphy to the martial arts. William Scott Wilson is the bestselling translator of many Oriental classics, including Hagakure and The Book of Five Rings, and is author of The Lone Samurai, the biography of the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. His books have been translated into 17 languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kodansha International Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 4770030975
• ISBN 13: 9784770030979
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible