Secret of The Golden
Flower
By Thomas Cleary. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", 154 pages, paperback. This
is a new translation by a highly regarded scholar and it gives an entirely
new and valuable meaning to this ancient Chinese classic meditation manual.
Cleary says it corrects the previously famous translation, which was from
a garbled and truncated version. Cleary's new translation provides insight
into some of the inner techniques of Taoism and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. A
distillation of the inner psycho-active elements in ancient spiritual classics,
it describes a natural way to mental freedom practiced in China for many
centuries. |