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Title: The Gold Pavilion: Taoist Ways to Peace, Healing, and Long Life by Michael R. Saso ISBN: 0-8048-3060-6 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: the safest book I know on oriental alchemy. . .
Comment: Great !!!
The safest book I know on oriental alchemy/ meditation.
Most others prescribe a teacher, to avoid problems. Eva Wong and Thomas Cleary are examples of such other books. However, there is also much general value and guidance in the works of Eva Wong, Thomas Cleary, et al.
The section on color healing in Saso' book, at the very least, has much to offer to many.
Yet, may I make one further suggestion ?
Outside the orientalia ..there is Israel Regardie's masterpiece, 'The Art of True Healing.' A species of meditation founded on the qabalah, its persistent practice can yield results suitable for the resolutions of problems in just about any area of life. See my recent review for this book.
I am rather surprised that other oreintal translators/propounders have not presented a similar technique, offering as much as Regardie does, for practical application.
I have no intention of getting rid of my copy of 'The Gold Pavilion.' It is a 'keeper.' Saso's book sits on my shelf next to my Wong and Cleary books on the same subject.
My main mentor on these subjects, Eva Wong (thru the medium of her books,) does not over-emphasise Saso's efforts. However, after having had a chance to read deeply enough into 'Gold Pavilion' to see it's a winner, I am inclined to acquire more of his books. Saso also appears to garner some pretty favorable reviews here at Amazon.com.
Great for the beginner, might I also recommend yet another oriental book, worthy companion to 'The Gold Pavilion.' It is the remarkably useful 'Taoist Meditation,' by Thomas Cleary.
Quite simply one of the best books on relaxation I have ever read ( in fact, one of the top half-dozen,) Cleary's book, like Saso's, is hardly just for taoists, or just for meditators. Like Saso's, Cleary's book is accessible/readable for nearly any intelligent beginner, even those largely unfamiliar with oriental meditation subjects.
Yet I would highly encourage anyone interested in these forms of meditation, to also acquire a copy of Israel Regardie's 'Art of True Healing.' The benefits may prove extremely worthwhile.
Rating: 5
Summary: Now I know what Taosim is...
Comment: I've been studying Taoism and Taoist methods for a while now, but have always sensed that I was missing "something". Somehow, I knew I just wasn't getting the whole picture. Prof. Saso's book has taken me closer to seeing what Taoism really is than I'd ever expected to be taken. As a companion book to the Laozi(Tao Te Ching) and Zhuangzi(Chuang-Tzu), I'd say "The Gold Pavilion" is indispensible. I've learned that those beautiful, yet frustrating ancient texts are speaking as much to the internal self as to the external world. This is Taoism the way the Asian practitioners see it, and they've been following the Way for a couple thousand years. Need I say, "Highly Recommended"?
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding! In a class by itself.
Comment: Evidence abounds that Taoism, at long last, is attracting the serious attention that it deserves, and that it is only a matter of time before it takes its place among the major Eastern religions which, in the last century, have put down roots in the West. If ever there was a need for a sober, disciplined approach to the subject, it is now. And Professor Saso's has admirably risen to the occasion in this work. There is little here to appeal to the dilettante, or to the commercial purveyor of New-Age erotic fantasy. What the reader will come away with is a new appreciation for and deeper understanding of a religion which antedates Christianity and is at least as old as Buddhism --- a religion which speaks to aspirations and concerns of a humanity which has seemingly lost its way. Readers who are shopping for yet another source of distraction or amusement are well advised not to be detained by this book. But for the reader who is looking for a single, level-headed introduction to Taoism, "The Gold Pavilion" will be an indispensable addition to his/her library.
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Title: Taoist Master Chuang by Michael R. Saso ISBN: 0967794803 Publisher: Sacred Mountain Press Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Cultivating the Energy of Life by Liu Hua-Yang ISBN: 1570623422 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 17 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Qigong Meditation: Embryonic Breathing by Yang Jwing-Ming ISBN: 1886969736 Publisher: YMAA Publications Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Taoist Meditation by Thomas Cleary ISBN: 1570625670 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 05 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard by Kaiguo Chen, Chen Kaiguo, Zheng Shunchao, Thomas Cleary ISBN: 0804831858 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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