{"id":44933,"date":"2015-05-29T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44933"},"modified":"2015-05-29T18:44:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T18:44:24","slug":"the-tao-te-ching-in-contemporary-western-contexts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44933","title":{"rendered":"The Tao Te Ching in contemporary western contexts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; two reasonably diferent ways of contextualizing the Tao Te Ching for the west ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DQ-Tao-Te-Ching-43-in-Modern-Contexts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DQ-Tao-Te-Ching-43-in-Modern-Contexts.png\" alt=\"DQ Tao Te Ching 43 in Modern Contexts\" width=\"602\" height=\"1122\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DQ-Tao-Te-Ching-43-in-Modern-Contexts.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DQ-Tao-Te-Ching-43-in-Modern-Contexts-161x300.png 161w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DQ-Tao-Te-Ching-43-in-Modern-Contexts-549x1024.png 549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strange, eh?<\/p>\n<p>I somewhat like <strong>Witter Bynner<\/strong>&#8216;s non-literal take on the line in question: &#8220;to yield with life solves the insoluble&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My own carefully ambiguous version: &#8220;Chinese meanings can slip <em>through \/ into <\/em>obstinate English translators&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taoistic.com\/taoteching-laotzu\/taoteching-43.htm\">Taoistic Taoism Explained<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egreenway.com\/taoism\/ttclz43.htm\">Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing) by Lao Tzu (Laozi)<\/a>, Chapter 43\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2015\/05\/150527103112.htm\">Physicists solve quantum tunneling mystery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; two reasonably diferent ways of contextualizing the Tao Te Ching for the west ] . Strange, eh? I somewhat like Witter Bynner&#8216;s non-literal take on the line in question: &#8220;to yield with life solves the insoluble&#8221;. My own carefully ambiguous version: &#8220;Chinese meanings can slip through \/ into obstinate English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[734,526,144,627,218,32,943,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-charles-cameron","category-china","category-doublequotes","category-philosophy","category-science","category-sex","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44933"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44954,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44933\/revisions\/44954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}