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The Daodejing and the Restoration of Humanity
The Daodejing may be the most important book ever written. It contains in seminal form all of the important concepts for natural healing and is the foundational text for all of Daoism, acupuncture, and the internal arts of ancient China including Taijiquan and Daoist meditation. This book presents Dennis Willmont’s original translation complete with Pinyin, Chinese characters, and Chapter commentaries. The extensive introduction makes this important text accessible to healers, scholars, practitioners, and the interested public and reveals all of the secrets hidden within the text so that its power is made clear to all those who wish to practice it.
This book includes a translation, chapter commentary and introduction for the complete text. It explains how and why the Daodejing is THE most important book on natural healing ever written as well as the most significant of ancient Chinese texts. It is the oldest book of Chinese Daoism and has profoundly influenced all of the Chinese arts including painting, calligraphy, poetry, architecture, cooking, love making, politics, warfare, and especially the healing arts of acupuncture, meditation, Qigong and Taijiquan. The Daodejing comes from a time before philosophy and religion were separated. Its basic message states that in order to fulfill human Destiny we must remain grounded in Spirit and Source while manifesting ourselves in the world. In order to do so we must make ourselves small and humble like the infant, and receptive like the female. Thus, we can attain Primal Simplicity through Non-Action and Natural Spontaneity. In attaining Primal Simplicity we can consistently return to the wholeness of our True Nature. This direction is the Path of Dao and represents the paradise realms on earth and in the higher regions. In contrast, we can separate ourselves from this unity and lose our direction in life through selfishness, desire, contention, cleverness, knowledge and the excessive use of force. This direction is the Path of Demons and represents the Hell worlds of Confusion and Disorder.
We enter upon the Path of Dao whenever we attempt to gain personal advantage in relation to the Good of All. We enter upon the Path of Demons whenever we attempt to attain personal gain at the expense of the Good of All. In order to be empowered as truly human, we must embark on the Path of Dao. As the earliest Chinese medical books tell us, to do so is to remain free from illness, while to avoid or deny this path is the way to inevitably invite mental, physical and social illness into our lives. The Path of Dao laid out in the Daodejing is the way by which human beings can become truly human and distinguish themselves from the walking dead. This priceless accomplishment is something one can attain only through merit. It is not something that can be bought and sold. Because of the negative materialistic direction of present day humanity the message of the Daodejing is more important now than ever before. |
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Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction
The Tao-te Ching In Acupuncture And The Healing Arts 1
General Background 12
The Twenty-First Century Crisis 12
Paradigms: Classical/Modern, Eastern/Western 14
Acupuncture History 18
Introduction 18
Legendary History Of Acupuncture 19
Acupuncture in Myth 21
Acupuncture Needles As Arrows 22
The Leather Bag of Blood and Related Myths 24
Early Confucian Influence 26
Taoist Influence 26
Ch’in (-255 BC to -209 BC) 27
Han (-206 BC to 189 AD) 27
Sung (960-1278) 28
Yüan (1206-1333) 28
Ming (1386-1628) 28
Ch’ing (1644-1908) 28
Modern Chinese (1908-2000) 29
The Republic 29
The People’s Republic of China 29
Japanese Acupuncture 31
Modern European/American (1908-2000) 32
Background 32
Divergence of Styles 33
“Traditional Chinese Medicine? A Split From Tradition? 35
Blind Men And Elephants 36
The Chinese Language As World View 36
General 36
History 37
The Spoken Language 38
Symbolism in Language 40
Problems In Translation 41
Natural Healing and World View 42
The Tao-te ching As Core Taoist Healing Text 44
Destiny and Gratitude 48
Faith 50
Eternal Happiness 51
Infinite Freedom 52
Absolute Justice 52
Virtue 52
Virtue and the Mandate of Heaven 52
Etymology and Definition of Te 53
Confucian Conceptions of Virtue 54
Taoist Conceptions of Virtue 56
The Seven Levels of Judgment 58
Confucian Background 60
Confucianism in General 60
Confucius (551-479 BC) 61
Mo-Tzu (479-381BC) 62
Mencius (371-289 BC) 63
Hsün-Tzu (340-245 BC) 63
Early Taoist Background 64
The Chou dynasty (1111-249 BC) 64
Philosophical Taoism 65
Important Early Taoist Texts 66
Kuan-tzu (400-200 B.C.) 66
Chuang-tzu (399-295 BC) 66
Huai-nan Tzu (139 BC) 67
Lieh-tzu (300 AD) 67
Tao-tsang 67
The Tao-te ching 68
Historical Basis of the Author: Lao-tzu 68
Historical Basis of the Text 69
Part II: The Text with Chapter Commentaries
Section I: The Book of “Dao?Dejing
Chapter 1 75
Chapter 1 Commentary 76
Chapter 2 79
Chapter 2 Commentary 80
Chapter 3 81
Chapter 3 Commentary 82
Chapter 4 84
Chapter 4 Commentary 85
Chapter 5 86
Chapter 5 Commentary 87
Chapter 6 89
Chapter 6 Commentary 91
Chapter 7 91
Chapter 7 Commentary 92
Chapter 8 93
Chapter 8 Commentary 94
Chapter 9 95
Chapter 9 Commentary 96
Chapter 10 97
Chapter 10 Commentary 98
Chapter 11 99
Chapter 11 Commentary 100
Chapter 12 101
Chapter 12 Commentary 102
Chapter 13 104
Chapter 13 Commentary 105
Chapter 14 106
Chapter 14 Commentary 108
Chapter 15 109
Chapter 15 Commentary 110
Chapter 16 111
Chapter 16 Commentary 112
Chapter 17 113
Chapter 17 Commentary 114
Chapter 18 115
Chapter 18 Commentary 116
Chapter 19 117
Chapter 19 Commentary 118
Chapter 20 119
Chapter 20 Commentary 120
Chapter 21 121
Chapter 21 Commentary 122
Chapter 22 123
Chapter 22 Commentary 124
Chapter 23 125
Chapter 23 Commentary 126
Chapter 24 127
Chapter 24 Commentary 128
Chapter 25 129
Chapter 25 Commentary 131
Chapter 26 132
Chapter 26 Commentary 133
Chapter 27 134
Chapter 27 Commentary 135
Chapter 28 136
Chapter 28 Commentary 138
Chapter 29 139
Chapter 29 Commentary 140
Chapter 30 141
Chapter 30 Commentary 142
Chapter 31 143
Chapter 31 Commentary 144
Chapter 32 145
Chapter 32 Commentary 146
Chapter 33 147
Chapter 33 Commentary 146
Chapter 34 147
Chapter 34 Commentary 149
Chapter 35 150
Chapter 35 Commentary 151
Chapter 36 152
Chapter 36 Commentary 153
Chapter 37 154
Chapter 37 Commentary 155
Section Two: “The Book Of De,?Daojing 157
Chapter 38 159
Chapter 38 Commentary 160
Chapter 39 161
Chapter 39 Commentary 162
Chapter 40 163
Chapter 40 Commentary 164
Chapter 41 165
Chapter 41 Commentary 166
Chapter 42 168
Chapter 42 Commentary 169
Chapter 43 170
Chapter 43 Commentary 171
Chapter 44 172
Chapter 44 Commentary 173
Chapter 45 174
Chapter 45 Commentary 175
Chapter 46 177
Chapter 46 Commentary 178
Chapter 47 179
Chapter 47 Commentary 180
Chapter 48 181
Chapter 48 Commentary 182
Chapter 49 183
Chapter 49 Commentary 184
Chapter 50 185
Chapter 50 Commentary 186
Chapter 51 188
Chapter 51 Commentary 189
Chapter 52 190
Chapter 52 Commentary 191
Chapter 53 192
Chapter 53 Commentary 193
Chapter 54 194
Chapter 54 Commentary 195
Chapter 55 196
Chapter 55 Commentary 197
Chapter 56 198
Chapter 56 Commentary 199
Chapter 57 200
Chapter 57 Commentary 201
Chapter 58 202
Chapter 58 Commentary 203
Chapter 59 204
Chapter 59 Commentary 205
Chapter 60 206
Chapter 60 Commentary 207
Chapter 61 208
Chapter 61 Commentary 209
Chapter 62 210
Chapter 62 Commentary 211
Chapter 63 212
Chapter 63 Commentary 213
Chapter 64 214
Chapter 64 Commentary 215
Chapter 65 216
Chapter 65 Commentary 217
Chapter 66 218
Chapter 66 Commentary 219
Chapter 67 220
Chapter 67 Commentary 221
Chapter 68 224
Chapter 68 Commentary 225
Chapter 69 226
Chapter 69 Commentary 227
Chapter 70 228
Chapter 70 Commentary 229
Chapter 71 230
Chapter 71 Commentary 231
Chapter 72 232
Chapter 72 Commentary 233
Chapter 73 234
Chapter 73 Commentary 235
Chapter 74 236
Chapter 74 Commentary 237
Chapter 75 238
Chapter 75 Commentary 239
Chapter 76 240
Chapter 76 Commentary 241
Chapter 77 242
Chapter 77 Commentary 243
Chapter 78 244
Chapter 78 Commentary 245
Chapter 79 246
Chapter 79 Commentary 247
Chapter 80 248
Chapter 80 Commentary 249
Chapter 81 250
Chapter 81 Commentary 251
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