Hua Hu Ching: The
Teachings of Lao Tzu
By Brian Walker. 5" x 9", 108 pages, paperback.Perhaps predictably,
the book was banned during a period of political discord in China, and all
copies were ordered to be burned. Were it not for the tradition of oral
transmission of sacred scriptures from master to student, they would havbe
been lost forever. Brian Walker's rendition of Lao Tzu's profound oral teachings,
as recorded in the Hua Hu China, seems admirably clear and to the point.
Laid out like poems, these eighty-one lessons on the attainment of mastery,
enlightenment, and peace of mind are simple, direct, and revelatory. |