Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Spiritual Beliefs and Universal Wisdom
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Author of bestselling ‘Falling Leaves’ weaves together for the same audience her own personal experiences with the best of Chinese philosophy.Adeline Yen Mah, whose autobiography ‘Falling Leaves’ is an international bestseller, here interweaves her own experiences with her views on Chinese thought and wisdom to create an illuminating and highly personal guide for Western readers.Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, and through the conversations and wisdom of her grandfather and aunt learnt a great deal of traditional Chinese thought, history and religion. Through her father’s second marriage to a Eurasian woman, and their subsequent move to Hong Kong, she learnt more about the Chinese attitudes to business and to family, and the strength of the Chinese in exile.Since living in London and California, Adeline Yen Mah has studied Chinese thought, looking at both the strengths and weaknesses which it gives those who follow it and now, in ‘Watching the Tree’, she takes us on a journey through the Chinese language, religions and history, using both Chinese proverbs and her own experiences, to bring to us an understanding of the richness of China and the ways that we can take and use some of the wisdom for ourselves in the West.
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Adeline Mah Yen. Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Spiritual Beliefs and Universal Wisdom
CONTENTS
1 Watching the Tree to Catch a Hare. SHOU ZHU DAI TU
2 Light at the End of the Tunnel. PI JI TAI LAI
Consulting the I Ching
3 Hidden and Nameless Tao. DAO YIN WU MING
4 Do Not Do to Others What You Do Not Wish Others to Do to You. JI SUO BU YU, WU SHI YU REN
5 Look Inwards for Salvation. HUI TOU SHI AN
6 Thousands and Tens of Thousands of Varieties of Qi. QI XIANG WAN QIAN
7 Let Food be Medicine. YI SHI WEI LIAO
8 Know the Opposite Party as Well as You Know Yourself. ZHI JI ZHI BI
Portrait of Yin
Profile of Yang
9 Hidden Logic Within the Shape of Words. ZI XING CANG LI
10 The Sight Strikes a Chord in my Heart. CHU JING SHENG QING
A Note on Calendars
11 Frog at the Bottom of a Well. JING DI ZHI WA
12 The Lessons of Silence. BU YAN ZHI JIAO
Author’s Note
Index
Also by Adeline Yen Mah
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Watching the Tree to Catch a Hare
A Chinese daughter reflects on happiness,
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In order to consult the I Ching properly and with a clear mind while avoiding the possibility of influence by the occult or the divine, one should follow a few simple rules:
Find a quiet, tidy room. Bathe and dress in comfortable clothes. Be alone. Lock the door. Take the phone off the hook.
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