Introduction

Some initial responses to this initiative:

quillancamper
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007

Thank you for the opportunity to join in this forum.

I came across the Tao and the original Headlessness book at about the same time. Did you know Compendium Books in Camden Town, London? I was a young impressionable university student in those days. Now I have retired to the South of France and am older but still impressed.

These two ways of looking at the world: the headless way and the wayless way may be the one way and since I have the time and the interest to pursue this interesting possibility (what could be more interesting?) I should like, rather longwindedly, put in my request to join up.

Thank you.

Bill
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007

I've drafted a 'headless' commentary on the Tao Te Ching. The introduction and first few chapters are here:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/billgillies/TaoIndex.html

I'm in the process of reworking it so that the Buddhist references are minimised.

I hope it might be of some interest.

From: jimclatfelter
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007

Hello Bill,

Thanks for the link to your Tao/Headless pages. They are wonderfully thorough. I will be sure to look at them with each verse we consider. Your work will enrich my experience and understanding immensely.

From: Bill
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007

Thanks Jim,

Maybe this forum will be a good inspiration for me to get cracking with the rewrite.

All the best.

From: Luc
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007

Nice initiative ! I would like to join in.

I bought my first edition of the Dao De Jing in 1979. It was a Dutch translation with quite some explanations of the text. It fascinated me but I had no idea what it was all about.
Headlessness came much later, around 1998. Recently I read the Dao De Jing again, because I felt Headlessness would help me understand it better.
Didn't work as well as I had expected... So maybe now we can shed some light on it together ?

There is a book of Byron Katie : 'Tao, Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are'. Every chapter is linked to a phrase from Dao De Jing. I love it, because she sometimes makes This so clear, puts It in everyday life and explains how life is from Here.