It's the "bible" of Taoist philosophy. Much of what Bruce spoke of came from there. It's not long and fairly easy reading. I would highly recommend getting a copy.
Look up Bruce 's Library and the readings he stated he read over and over again and was inspired by. From Lao Tze to Krishnamurti to Confucius as well as many Western philosophers. He was an avid reader and wrote notes in all of his books. All.chinese philosophy has roots in Confucius, I Ching and Lao Tze.
Tao te ching was credited to Lao Tze but there is legend involved in that as well. He existed around the same time as Confucius, 500 BC. There are other schools of Chinese thoughts but Confucius and Lao Tze are the most prominent.
BTW, the Confuciun Alalects were not written by Confucius but by his followers post-mortem. The word Confucius was coined by the Jesuits to refer to Kǒngzǐ, pinyin.
Yeah I remember it was not his real name but was too lazy to look it up . Do you have Chinese background since you seem to be familiar with Cantonese and Mandarin? I am still in beginner/int. stages of Mandarin.
I am a gringo but have practiced Chinese martial arts and health practices for years along with a study of Chinese history and philosophy. Thought you might be interested in an occasional recommendation.
Ahh East Asian Studies Minor myself and travel to Asia for my business regularly. Tackling Mandarin after Japanese has gone stale. Always happy to discuss the subject so thank you for your constant input!
As Snoop Dog said "...back to the lecture at hand..." Today working on combining the isometric workout from Bruce Lee from Hoffman et. al. and negative accentuated training I have been reading about. This one is a 30-10-30 workout I read and reviewed and looks extremely interesting. To explain it I will use a dumbbell curl as the example exercise: 30 seconds of a negative movement - so start a dumbell curl at the top and take 20-30 seconds to lower using a weight maybe 80% of normal 10-12 rep weight. 10 slow reps - at end of 30 second negative then do 10 full reps with 1 second up and 2 second down 30 seconds negative movement - at end of 10th rep then do another 30 second negative lowering the dumbbells down. Basically a 30 second negative, 10 reps and final 30 second negative. One set for each muscle/bodypart. I am pulling info to design the overall plan and will begin today so will post. I got to it through conecting dots from Hoffman - Lee - negative training.
Very different perspective here, spent years in Mainland China and associate Traditionnal Chinese whatever mostly to outdated crap Xu xiadong is in the news again today, funny stuff is while he literally walked through Kun Fu "masters" he was completely destroyed when he went sparring in a kick boxing/muay thaI gym in China, this guy has absolutely no standing internationally in the sports he promotes but that s enough to make the proponents of Chinese traditional martial arts look like disabled children in a ring - who are never short of ridiculous excuses to try and explain their miserable performance https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soc...r-stumps-y10-million-purse-defeat-mma-fighter