Comments on: Secret of the Golden Flower – A Chinese Book of Life https://www.holybooks.com/secret-of-the-golden-flower/ Download the Bible, The Holy Quran, The Mahabharata and thousands of free pdf ebooks on buddhism, meditation etc. Read the reviews and download the free PDF e-books. Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: NealNial https://www.holybooks.com/secret-of-the-golden-flower/comment-page-1/#comment-152942 Sun, 23 Apr 2023 10:06:27 +0000 https://holybooks.com/?p=2161#comment-152942 In reply to George H.

I wholly agree with you George. Wilhelm’s version (as translated into English from German) is not just bad, it is psychologically harmful to the reader. Similar can be said for everything written by James Legge, Homer Dubs, and most all other translators of Chinese texts. I enjoy doing my own translations of ancient texts, and though my skills are not great (not so much as an arms wide da over ren :) ), still I am able to glean sensible concepts from the texts. There is a lot of beauty in original texts, but none in any known popular translations.

]]> By: Nicolas Blouin https://www.holybooks.com/secret-of-the-golden-flower/comment-page-1/#comment-152041 Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:36:15 +0000 https://holybooks.com/?p=2161#comment-152041 In reply to George H.

so which translation would you advise? thanks

]]> By: George H https://www.holybooks.com/secret-of-the-golden-flower/comment-page-1/#comment-146750 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 07:54:16 +0000 https://holybooks.com/?p=2161#comment-146750 As someone who lives in Vietnam and has spent my life studying Daoism and Buddhism, I am astounded that people keep assuming that Richard Wilhelms’s translation is acceptable. It is not, it is garbage. It should be completely ignored by westerners. Why oh why do westerners, especially Americans keep thinking they have some kind of special understanding of this. Wilhelms command of Asain languages was at best conversational. His translation should not be taken seriously. Just because Carl Jung wrote a foreword doesn’t improve the terrible translation. Clearys is also really bad. If only more American scholars of Asian religion would actually live abroad int he countries they claim to have mastered the language of.

]]> By: Ian McCartney https://www.holybooks.com/secret-of-the-golden-flower/comment-page-1/#comment-137010 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:27:01 +0000 https://holybooks.com/?p=2161#comment-137010 Pica seems to have reproduced the Wilhelm-Jung-Baynes version with only a few very superficial changes to some terms, perhaps adding a more external (Christian) sense, contrary to the internal-pointing terms and phrases in the source materials of Tang Dynasty Tientai Buddhism and Taoism. Both the Wilhelm-Jung-Baynes version and the Cleary version have a great deal of additional information compared to this Pica rendition, and are more suitable for starting meditation practice. Also have a look at JJ Semple, the most recent advocate of golden Flower Meditation.

]]> By: Aria https://www.holybooks.com/secret-of-the-golden-flower/comment-page-1/#comment-88454 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:54:04 +0000 https://holybooks.com/?p=2161#comment-88454 Ye have the best website. Thank you very much

]]> By: Simon Beck https://www.holybooks.com/secret-of-the-golden-flower/comment-page-1/#comment-13952 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:31:47 +0000 https://holybooks.com/?p=2161#comment-13952 The pdf here doesn’t seem to be the book. It’s called Secret of the Golden Flower, but is only fourteen pages and not a translation by Wilhelm.

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