Way to Life: At the Heart of the Tao Te Ching, The

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  • Title: Way to Life: At the Heart of the Tao Te Ching, The
  • Author: Benjamin Hoff Lao Tzu
  • ISBN: 9780834801561
  • Page: 397
  • Format: Paperback

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About Author

  1. Hoff grew up in the Portland, Oregon neighborhood of Sylvan, where he acquired a fondness of the natural world that has been highly influential in his writing Hoff obtained a B.A in Asian Art from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 1973.Hoff has also studied architecture, music, fine arts, graphic design and Asian Culture His studies in Asian Culture included reaching the certificate level in the Japanese Tea Ceremony, had two years of apprenticeship in Japanese fine pruning methods, and four years of instruction in the martial art form of T ai chi ch uan, including a year of Ch i Kung In his spare time, he practices Taoist Qigong and T ai chi ch uan.Hoff was awarded the American Book Award in 1988 for The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow The Tao of Pooh was an international bestseller and spent 49 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list The Te of Piglet also became an international bestseller and spent 59 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.In 2006, Hoff published an essay on his website titled Farewell to Authorship , in which he denounced the publishing industry and announced his resignation from book writing.

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  1. I mostly enjoyed Hoff s selections and interpretations He has a keen eye and a good sense of Tao I want to write however , at this point, with the observation that he can be very hard or blunt And that there is a distinctly American centric feeling to his interpretations that gives it an interesting flavour This makes itself particularly apparent in his summary descriptions And I find myself reacting to this in an ambivalent way, which brings a smile to my face because recently I have been descr [...]

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