Reviews for Taoist Canon, Vol. 3

The average rating for Taoist Canon, Vol. 3 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-28 00:00:00 Nathan Weber "people are trying to find a balance in their lives, and gardening helps them feel centered." "another great satisfaction of gardening is that one can see progress, and in most of the things we do in our lives -including the work at our jobs- we see little or no progress of any kind." "gardening seems to result in a slight shift in consciousness toward the right brain. you can lose track of time in this state and become very focused on what you're doing. like meditation or yoga, gardening tends to put people in the moment. people gain insights into thoughts and feeling s that were hidden from their consciousness before. the rational half of your brain -the left hemisphere- is dampened somewhat, which quiets some of the minds chatter and allows you to escape ordinary thinking patterns. this is why gardening can expand your awareness and give you the kind of wider range of perception that can help you see things you didn't see before." "thoroughly dirty from it all, i sprinkle a little earth on myself for good measure. and why not? i am planted in the garden too." "a failure at pruning; a reluctance to say no to any of my precious plants. each of those little green shoots seemed so eminently deserving of life that i could never pluck up anything that had sprouted from a seed. the result? a disaster. a horticultural nightmare, a mishmash of vegetation fighting for limited light, water, and soil. pruning a garden means admitting there isn't space for everything to grow. Maybe pruning is a special task of the second half of life, but it's one i've avoided for years. piles of books, half of them never read, shelf after shelf, boxes of files stored in the attic, are testimony to that. but pruning is necessary in order to live, whether for plants in the garden or for people in the second half of life. we cant avoid pruning but we can make ourselves sick and die buried in our own accumulated collections, like the mishmash i called my garden for so many years. this truth is as simple as breathing; breathing in and breaking out, building up and breaking down. the cycle of life depends on that rhythm. voluntary acceptance is not an act done once and then forgotten. it has to be repeated over and over again; every day in fact." "sometimes pruning means giving up unproductive activities, saying goodbye to marginal friendships, selling furniture that rarely gets used, or throwing out plants that never managed to flourish." "my garden teaches me that everything takes time, that sometimes there's nothing wrong with being slow and methodical.""throughout my own life i have found that the silence of my gardens helps me quiet the thoughts of my rational mind. i feel immense relief in abandoning, at least for a short time, my brain's attempts to overly control or plan my future and to analyze or mull over my past. i transfer my focus to whats right in front of me, here and now."

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-08 00:00:00 Larry Olaf This book reminds of why I love to garden