Christ the Eternal Tao

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Through heretofore unpublished translations and teachings of Gi-ming Shien -- perhaps the greatest Chinese philosopher to have ever come to the West -- this book uncovers the esoteric core of the Tao Teh Ching. Then, through the transmission of mystics of the ancient Christian East, Lao Tzu's teaching is brought into a new dimension, exploding with new meanings. Christ, in turn, is seen in a unique light, His pure image shining in the clarity of Lao Tzu's intuitive vision.

With its practical, time-tested advice on how to unite oneself with the incarnate Tao and acquire uncreated Teh, this is both a philosophical source-book and a spiritual manual, touching the heart and leading one to profound inward transformation. It is a long-awaited Answer to those who, having turned away from modern Western "churchianity," are drawn to the freshness, directness and simplicity of Lao Tzu, and at the same time are strangely, inexplicably drawn back to the all-compelling reality of Jesus Christ.

The book is adorned with Chinese calligraphy and seals (created especially for it by well-known Chinese artists), and with traditional Chinese paintings of the life of Christ.

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This link between the God of the Bible is now becoming better known. Daoism is actually a distortion of Laozi's thinking.

The reader should know that this book is heavily infused with eastern Christian mysticism and thought. This book does point this out.

Only now the 21st century are we finding out how the God of Abraham revealed himself to Laozi. It should be pointed out that this link to Laozi is not a link to what developed later, that is, Daoism.

Even so, there are unique insights to the Trinity and to the original state of man. With great intuitive insight, the general revelation of God was perceived by one of China's ancient philosophers.

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Tao is Way in Chinese. He saw through a glass darkly, as we all do. That intrigued me. Then I found "Christ the Eternal Tao". I had come full circle: converted by the Protestants, leaving that for the beauty and simplicity of Zen and Taoism, and returning to Christianity through the Eastern door. I found some in Zen and Taoism. Every culture gets some things right. I longed for beauty, simplicity,harmony, and silence.

I read "Christ the Eternal Tao" five or six years ago. Believe it or not, I had never heard of Eastern Orthodoxy. You have to build on what is true in any given situation. Christ says He is the Way. I actually cried while reading it. It showed Christ as the fulfillment of all mankind's deepest longings. I had become a severely disillusioned American Evangelical Protestant. I was in a great deal of emotional pain at that point in my life and had grown weary of pious platitudes and simplistic theology.

He was prophetic. I saw how the Greeks evangelized the Russians who evangelized the Chinese and the Alaskans. It gave Christianity context. Christ was not painted as a westernized, blue-eyed person. that I most craved.

Lao Tzu wasn't wrong. I had finally come home. The humility of Taoism is profuoundly Christian. I wanted a religion or philosophy that addressed suffering with some depth. I saw the martyr connections between the churches.

I discovered that I didn't have to label all other religions as completely false in order to believe in Christ. I also discovered the Tao Teh Ching to be strangely trinitarian (the One gives birth to Three). It showed classic Chinese culture as having the simplicity, silence, beauty, etc.

Contrary to almost every translation of the Tao-Te-ching that is available nowadays,this book shows what Lao Tse really had in mind when he spoke of TAO.Not the nihilist,"buddhist" approach,neither the new age approach,but the real meaning.TAO meaning GOD,Infinity,not created and never ending.And then suddenly the Tao Te Ching makes sense.Sometimes when I read books about taoism it seemed to me that the author was "bending backward" trying to make the reader see that Tao has nothing to do with a creator.And that is what made not too much sense,in my opinion.Finally through the work of an orthodox monk I saw the "light".

Please read it and feel the warmth both these traditions have to offer when centered around the message, life and being of the eternal Logos and Tao, Jesus Christ. The only ideas from the west that parallels the contents of this work are leftovers from the theology of the Church the West left behind a thousand years ago.Christ the Eternal Tao is an amazing work. Hieromonk Damascene is an Eastern Christian Monk. For him it is truly East meets East, thus this book synergizes the truth revealed through the Church, the illumination of the Holy Spirit and the truth revealed to a humble human, Lao Tzu, when he left pride far behind him in a search for the true way, the Tao.This book includes little to none western nuances or anything hinting to rationalism.

I have never read such wonderful instructions and inspiring guidance on how one can truly pray, develop a relationship with Christ and experience the spiritual healing and peace that can occur when one get's beyond the 'little mind' to the 'higher mind' or 'Nous' from which one can receive God's peace and guidance. If you are looking for profound spiritual instruction from one whom I know lives his path ( for I have met Fr.

Then move into the history and his version of the 'Christian Tao Te Ching', if you will. Damascene) then just buy this book and start in the middle.

So many of the other reviews are focused on the comparative aspects of Taoism and Christianity, which certainly is a factor in the first sections of this book. Damascene someday writes a book just on Prayer.

You may be amazed and touched. But the middle sections on "Watchfulness", "Prayer", etc were, for me, life changing.

I hope Fr.