As the Confucian school was referred to as Rújiā, the Daoist school was referred to as Daojiā, each called out as one of the six main philosophical schools during the Warring States Period to the Early/Former Han. While a Daoist “canon”… Read More ›
Taoism
Early Chinese Philosophy: The Humanism of Confucius
The classical period of ancient Chinese philosophy runs from about the 6th century BCE till the 2nd century BCE and is marked by the proliferation and flowering of many varying philosophical schools, an era in Chinese history referred to (by Chinese… Read More ›
From the (Ancient) Far East: The Translation Challenge
We see the first evidence of Chinese writing, pictograms or logograms on bronze and bone artifacts from the last years of the Xia Dynasty (2070 – 1600 BCE), almost four thousand years ago. This writing system, the foundations of which became the what… Read More ›
History and Heritage of Meditation as a Mystical Art
Meditation, in the context of the fairly lengthy discussions and treatment of this specific discipline, or practice, throughout this work (primarily through an Indian theo-philosophical lens) is a fundamentally aspect of, a core component of as it were, the mystical… Read More ›
The Seeker: Chasing Ghosts is published
After a work of poetry extending over a period of a few years falling under the genre of what I like to term “mystic poetry”, the bulk of which is aligned with many of the other topics related to Eastern… Read More ›
As Easy as One, Two, Three
Numbers are an interesting thing really One could, elementarily (both figuratively and definitively) Break down the Western and Eastern ways of thinking Into as easy as 1, 2, 3 – A, B, C Pythagoras starts with the Monad, From which… Read More ›
The Book of Changes: The Wisdom of the Far East
One of the most unique, lasting and influential texts that has come down to us from the Far East that in antiquity is the Yijing (I Ching), also known as the Book of Changes. The work has a long history,… Read More ›
