Tao of Sailing : Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

by Grigg, Ray

• ISBN13: 9780893341381
• ISBN10: 089334138X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-07-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

A sailboat tossed about on rough seas will struggle to find a smooth course, balancing itself through wind and water. The human experience is a succession of balancing maneuvers as we resolve conflicts, find love, and merely exist from day to day. Grigg shows one how to be like a sailboat -- steady, adaptable, serene, and powerful.

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. Some of this traveling was done by sailboat, in local British Columbia waters, in the Caribbean, and offshore in the Pacific. He now lives with his wife on Quadra Island, British Columbia. He is a Taoist scholar and author of the best-selling classics, The Tao of Relationships and The Tao of Being: A Think and Do Workbook.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Tao of Sailing: A Bamboo Way Of Life
Shore
Even Beachstones	p. 3
The Wisdom Of Sand	p. 3
Neither Stone Nor Water	p. 5
Words Say Stone And Water	p. 5
Great Ocean...Dry Stones	p. 7
Not Once A Mistake	p. 7
The Place Called Shore	p. 9
If Shore Is Between	p. 11
Land And Sea, Here And There	p. 11
If There Is Land	p. 13
Within The Reach Of Surf	p. 15
Stone Thoughts	p. 17
A Shoreless Thought	p. 19
Shoredance	p. 21
Between Land And Sea	p. 23
Master Of Nothing	p. 25
Stones Know What To Do	p. 25
Beyond Land Is Sea	p. 27
Closer To The Tao	p. 27
Ship
In The Full Middle	p. 31
Ships Are Not Mindful Of Sea	p. 31
The Form Of A Ship	p. 33
Searching For A Way	p. 33
Between A Ship And Rocks	p. 35
Just-So	p. 35
An Anchor Too Heavy	p. 37
Shaped For Sea And Wind	p. 37
That Which Moves A Ship	p. 39
The Empty Space Within	p. 39
Both Lightness And Heaviness	p. 41
Primal Harmony	p. 41
Bow And Stern	p. 43
Without Being Minded	p. 45
Like An Old Sage	p. 45
A Ship's Oneness With Sea	p. 47
Whatness And Thatness	p. 47
In Its Very Centre	p. 49
Perfect Balance	p. 49
The Wing Of Sail	p. 51
Holding and Yielding	p. 51
The Balance Within	p. 53
Silent Sound And Sounding Silence	p. 53
A Moving Stillness	p. 55
Unmoved Yet Moving	p. 55
The Ship's Cockroach	p. 57
The Same Mystery	p. 57
Timing	p. 59
A Ship Is Woman	p. 59
Like Sails	p. 61
By Not Surpassing	p. 61
Everything And Nothing	p. 63
Moon Floats...Ship Floats	p. 63
Stillness And Emptiness	p. 65
Sea
Being Sea...Being Waves	p. 69
The Sea Of Ourselves	p. 69
The Stillness Of Sea	p. 71
Sea And Fog	p. 71
Thoughts Of Waves...Thoughts Of Sea	p. 71
When A Wave Comes	p. 73
In One Grey	p. 73
Wordless Sea	p. 73
On The Sea's Surface	p. 75
Before Spray Returns To Sea	p. 75
Sea Belongs With Land	p. 77
The Wave Unknowingly	p. 77
The Water Of Waves	p. 79
Deep Within The Sea	p. 79
Different Waves	p. 81
The Pathless Path	p. 81
The Wholeness Of Sea	p. 83
Upon The Sea Of The Great Mother	p. 83
Particular Gratitude	p. 85
Shapeless, Formless, Nameless	p. 85
Softer Than Water	p. 87
Because Of Awe	p. 87
The Sea Remains	p. 89
Only Sea Meeting Sky	p. 89
To Be Unmastered	p. 91
The Stillness In Everything's Moving	p. 91
Below The Sea's Surface	p. 93
What Could Be Easier	p. 93
Sailor
Thoughts Within Thinking	p. 97
How Are We To Be In This World	p. 97
The Bending Course	p. 97
Defiance...Yielding...Accord	p. 99
Fullness In Waiting	p. 99
Thoughtless Accord	p. 99
Surprise And Uncertainty	p. 101
Thinking Is Difficult To Find	p. 101
Within The Wind Of Thinking	p. 103
The Silence Of Emptiness	p. 103
The Losing Of Self	p. 105
The Sage's Thoughts	p. 105
Inner Weight	p. 105
Balanced Moving	p. 107
Let Finding Find Its Own Way	p. 107
No One Doing...Nothing Being Done	p. 109
Proper Yielding	p. 109
The Sailor's Task	p. 111
Our Moving Thoughts	p. 111
Simplicity	p. 111
Unmade-Up Mind	p. 113
Thoughts Are Like Waves	p. 113
Yield And Be Unbroken	p. 115
Right Questions	p. 115
Inner Patience	p. 117
Selfless Changing	p. 117
A Sailor At Sea	p. 119
Words Are Like Air	p. 119
Wave And Self	p. 121
Neither Thoughts Nor Understanding	p. 121
A Sailor's Course At Sea	p. 123
The Mysterious Ordinary	p. 123
Names...Thoughts	p. 125
Every New Journey	p. 125
Breath And Blood...Air And Water	p. 127
Nothing In Charge	p. 127
Inner Balance...Outer Harmony	p. 129
As Large As Nothing	p. 129
The Primal Urge	p. 131
Only Night And Sea And Fog	p. 131
By Moving With Everything	p. 133
Rest Full Of Empty	p. 133
Timeless Waiting	p. 135
Changing Thoughts	p. 135
Practice Not-Doing	p. 137
Their Own Horizons	p. 137
A Special Waiting	p. 139
Less Than What Is Not	p. 139
An Emptiness Makes Way	p. 141
Just Sitting	p. 141
Wind-Knowing	p. 141
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