The Tao of Being: A Think and Do Workbook

by Grigg, Ray

• ISBN13: 9780893341152
• ISBN10: 0893341150
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-06-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

A practical guide to a balanced way of being, this adaptation of the Tao te Ching explores the relationship between the spirit of thinking and doing by the simplicity of the Tao. Discover how the application of the Tao can integrate the mind and body into one complete, balanced essence of being.

Author Biography

Ray Grigg has been a teacher of English literary history, fine arts, cultural history, and world religions in the British Columbia senior secondary school system for over twenty years. He holds two degrees from the University of British Columbia and has traveled extensively in over forty countries. He now lives with his wife on Quadra Island, British Columbia. He is a Taoist scholar and author of the best-selling classic The Tao of Relationships.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Some Chinese Words and Concepts	p. xxix
First Knowing	p. 1
Avoiding Extremes	p. 3
Inner Peace and Outer Harmony	p. 5
Ever Present	p. 7
Deep Think	p. 9
Woman Wisdom	p. 11
Undoing Answers	p. 13
The Downward Course	p. 15
Abide Peacefully	p. 17
Deepest Virtue	p. 19
Using What Is Not	p. 21
Inner Depth	p. 23
Uncertainty	p. 25
With Full Mind Empty	p. 27
Be The Hidden Source	p. 29
The Unchanging In The Changing	p. 31
Nothing Is Done	p. 33
Primal Virtue	p. 35
Between The Opposites	p. 37
The Pretense Of Certainty	p. 39
Call It The Tao	p. 41
Soften To Know	p. 43
Inner Quiet	p. 45
Falling With Perfect Balance	p. 47
Everything's Way	p. 49
Empty And Alert	p. 51
Going Unnoticed	p. 53
The Easy Downward Course	p. 55
The Heart Of Doing	p. 57
Understanding By Following	p. 59
Sharp Mind	p. 61
Think Downward	p. 63
When Thinking, Think For Everything	p. 65
Great Doing	p. 67
Keep Nothing And Everything	p. 69
An Auspicious Beginning	p. 71
Each Thing's Way	p. 73
Before Differences	p. 75
The Humility Of Wonder	p. 77
Selflessly Thinking The World	p. 79
Entering The Fool's Laughter	p. 81
Everything's Thinking	p. 83
Soft Thinking...Soft Doing	p. 85
Ease And Play	p. 87
Knower And Known and Unknown	p. 89
Their Natural Way	p. 91
The Beginning Within	p. 93
Empty Of Questions	p. 95
The Sage	p. 97
Death Teaches	p. 99
First Belonging	p. 101
Easy Harmony	p. 103
The Simple Source	p. 105
Be In The World	p. 107
The Constancy In Thinking	p. 109
Soften To The Way Of Things	p. 111
Great Learning	p. 113
Simple Greatness	p. 115
Whole Caring, Whole Allowing	p. 117
Deep In Fullness and Emptiness	p. 119
Empty Into Understanding	p. 121
Boundless Confinement	p. 123
The Simple Is Not Easy	p. 125
Before Thinking	p. 127
Breathing Easy	p. 129
Above The Hundred Rivers	p. 131
Three Treasures	p. 133
The Seeking In Everyone	p. 135
A Mystery Within A Mystery	p. 137
With Mind Wide Open	p. 139
Thinking Crooked	p. 141
With Thinking Undone	p. 143
By Doing Nothing	p. 145
The Fool Unknowingly Teaches The Sage	p. 147
Just One Question	p. 149
The Beginning Wonder	p. 151
Filling The Empty And Emptying The Full	p. 153
Closest To All Thoughts	p. 155
Best Masters	p. 157
Primal Simplicity	p. 159
Nothing Special	p. 161
About the Artist	p. 163
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