Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-Yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism by Harold David Roth
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Overview: Revolutionizing received opinion of Taoism’s origins in light of historic new discoveries, Harold D. Roth has uncovered China’s oldest mystical text–the original expression of Taoist philosophy–and presents it here with a complete translation and commentary.
Over the past twenty-five years, documents recovered from the tombs of China’s ancient elite have sparked a revolution in scholarship about early Chinese thought, in particular the origins of Taoist philosophy and religion. In Original Tao, Harold D. Roth exhumes the seminal text of Taoism–Inward Training (Nei-yeh)–not from a tomb but from the pages of the Kuan Tzu, a voluminous text on politics and economics in which this mystical tract had been “buried” for centuries.
Inward Training is composed of short poetic verses devoted to the practice of breath meditation, and to the insights about the nature of human beings and the form of the cosmos derived from this practice. In its poetic form and tone, the work closely resembles the Tao-te Ching; moreover, it clearly evokes Taoism’s affinities to other mystical traditions, notably aspects of Hinduism and Buddhism.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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