Let's Talk Ancient Chinese Texts

[wolven7]

Bitter:Sweet - Don't Forget to Breathe---If you ever wanted to read the Robert Henricks Translation of the Te-Tao Ching:

http://terebess.hu/english/tao/henricks.html

Or the Burton Watson translation of the Chuang Tzu:

http://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html

Then there you are. Minus the introductory materials, of course. But read you a book.

Can we guess which philosophical school I'm teaching, this week?

Bitter:Sweet - The Mating Game--- At least I'm done getting those all in line for my students. Now I just have to start reading/grading the papers. (Bitter:Sweet - Overdue). And write a test.

Bitter:Sweet - Heaven--- And figure out what's going on with my car. (Any of my car-savvy friends want to come take a look at my car, this week?)

And find a new place to live, or people to live in this place...

Deep breaths.

The temptation to start smoking, again, raises with each new frustration.

What shall I do, instead?

Comments

[cailement.livejournal.com]

deep breathing exercises? This is handleable, and it will be okay, you just have to slog through some shit to get there. All patterns are there for a reason...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Too true.

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

Meh, who needs the English translations when you can just read the original at ctext? (kidding!)

Seriously, though, ctext.org is another good resource for these things. They have the English and Chinese together, and are nicely searchable by chapter.

As for smoking, I can't help with that, but when I'm trying to stop doing various nervous habits I go play my erhu. So maybe learn a musical instrument?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I think I just need to lay out tarot more often. Keep my hands busy.

If I had time or money I'd learn piano.