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  • From 001 to 100: One Hundred Poems Completed by Alexander Goldstein

    The Moon Pool, #1

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    Series Book 1 - The Moon Pool
    Image thinking is a phenomenon when a concrete image intimates an abstract notion or viewpoint to express. In the sense, the term 'image' supposes the figurative imagery and its explanation, as well as an imaginative significance and its associations. To explain the image we use language while the idea of it reflects its abstract thought. As is well-known, language is an instrument of thinking, ... Read more

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  • Decoding of the Lao-zi (Dao-De Jing): Numerological Resonance of the Canon's Structure

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    The "Dao-De Jing" is the most famous and unfathomable work of Chinese philosophical inheritance. It is unique among the other classical 'guidebooks' in providing a practical method, by which one can effect this experiential learning of the absolute Dao. As a canon, it is a symbolic work and its symbols transcend its context. When this is properly understood, all 81 sections of it divided into nine ... Read more

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  • Zen 108

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    Written in simple language, these 108 'kung-an' (koan in Japanese) embodying the experience and wisdom of the Chinese Ch'an masters have found their way into hearts of many Westerners over a century. This is because Ch'an (Zen) is not something that can be explained in words, but is a special practice with words, which is carried out for one's self-development and leads to a state of Enlightenment ... Read more

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  • Taste of Hanshan (Cold Mountain)

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    Tian-tai Mountains are famous for their well-known reputation as a residence of saints and immortals. From ancient times adepts engaged in Chinese Buddhism and Daoism all longed for coming to Tian-tai. Richly endowed by nature, the mountain beauty spots produced unique harmonious culture, the striking prototypes of which were vagabond-poets Han Shan (Japanese "Kanzan") and Shi De (Jittoku). Once ... Read more

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  • Deciphering the 36 Chinese Stratagems: Some Findings on the Circular Frame of Reference

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    To realise the causes of a great rejuvenation of the Chinese civilization started with the new sixty-year cycle in 1984, we need to have recourse to an inescapable problem of inheritance and further development of cultural traditions in China. In this book the 36 stratagems and their overall characteristics are discussed within the framework of canonical macro and microstructure put through the ... Read more

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  • The Small Circle of the Grand Forest of Changes

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    The oracular book entitled "Yi Lin" (literally, "The Forest of Changes") comprises 4,096 dodecagrams and an equal number of verses, each explaining its meaning in the song-poetic form of ancient poetry. The verses accompany combinations of doubled 64 hexagrams from the Book of Changes (Yi Jing), known as "dodecagrams."This edition, built on the metaphorical concept of the Jade Box of the Forest of ... Read more

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  • The Oracular Book of Three

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    We use the oracular guidebook as a source of insight, the penetration into the nature and operating system of the human mind. Specifically, we concern the central issue of relationship between the still substance of the mind and its effective functioning. Yang Xiong (53BCE-18CE), the author of the "Oracle of Three" saw the oracular books of great antiquity as an inexhaustible repository of cosmic ... Read more

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  • Monks, Beasts & Dreams on Heavenly Terrace

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    This book's pages form the record of events that, according to tradition, really happened in the Tang-period China in the 8th century at Guo-qing Temple nestled on Mount Tian-tai. For this no extra charge has been made with the exception of delightful insight into the background of the four figures: three eccentric persons and the forth—the unnamed tigress, a creature on the back of which Chan ... Read more

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  • Li Po: Poet and Warrior

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    These collected poems has been inspired by the works that the Tang-period poet Li Po (701-762 CE) left after him as a great cultural heritage, and of whom I will have more to say on the pages below. It was with him that this book began; without him, none of what follows after the short essay would have been written.Fortunately or not, but I am not alone in this regard, as there are so many ... Read more

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  • The Canon of Grand Triad (Tai Xuan Jing): Oracular Values of Heaven, Earth and Man

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    This is a new translation of the key work of Han-period China spread out in the "land between the four seas" in the period from 206 BCE to 220 CE, the epoch which has left its indelible footprint in the entire thousands years old history of the country traditionally named "tian-xia" (Under Heaven), present-day "zhong-guo" (Central Kingdom). The Han dynasty can fairly be considered as the cradle of ... Read more

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  • Zen 96

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    Today, more and more people want to know what Zen is. The problem is that it is not an easy task to describe it, as Zen is beyond wording. It is something that cannot be talked about nor expressed in written form. The moment language is used we are no longer dealing with the spirit of Zen. However, Zen cannot be left unexpressed. In order to introduce the reader to the world of Zen, there is no ... Read more

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  • Ancient Wisdom, Management and Negotiations in China

    by Alexander Goldstein ...
    In the context of accelerated globalization, China's stratagemical thought highlights the comparative advantage of the Chinese towards management with an adaptation of 'ancient wisdom' for the new times and modern environments. This edition exercises Chinese style of management and business negotiation implemented via strategic thinking worked out and developed in the Central Kingdom throughout ... Read more

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