Kurzmeinung: Eine Gesellschaftskritik (Leistungsgesellschaft) in Form eines Thrillers/Rollenspiels. Sehr gelungen! Rollenspieler erschaffen eine gefährliche Parallelwelt! Eine Gesellschaftskritik (Leistungsgesellschaft) in Form eines Thrillers/Rollenspiels. Die “Heldentruppe” verliert dann auch sehr schnell den Sinn für die Realität und ist […]
Kurzmeinung: Klasse Idee, mit den Ungeheuern im Staat! Super gelungen! Ein tolles Buch zwischen Krimi und Fantasy! Mensch, Thorsten! Super-ober-mega-klasse! Ich bin so aufgeregt auf dein Buch! Habe den Auszug mit dem Meinungssammler gelesen. Das ist […]
In this post I will tell you how you become absolutely crushing, using the Tao or “Force” from the Book of Taoism. The following 10 powers are mo… [READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT SIVANA EAST] […]
Breitbart.com looks like the toilet paper used at East-West-Dichotomy.com Andrew Breitbart’s aims, if I recall correctly, were otherworldly noble: to “expose” the enemy of humanity-within: the tyranny of the Left, the so-called globalists with their […]
BEIJING – Even the most ambitious leaders can hardly match the talk of a Fire Rooster. It is often overlooked that the twelve zodiac animals also rotate in five mythical outfits: earth, metal, wood, water, and fire. […]
Introduction: My Chinese name is 裴德思 (Pei Desi). I am a philosopher and cultural critic. My “philosophy” seems bold but it is rather practical: I have argued strongly for more Chinese loanwords to the English language. […]
WHAT have ancient Taoism and the internet got to do with women’s 100-meter backstroke swimming final at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games? Everything! “Really, was I that fast?” said Fu Yuanhui about her seemingly effortless performance in the pool. […]
Quite a few layman Taoist organizations have formed in Europe. Examples are the ‘Taoist Tai Chi Gesellschaft Deutschland e.V.‘ in Germany, the ‘British Daoist Association‘, or the ‘Daoist Association of France’, the ‘Chiesa Taoista d’Italia’, […]
Needless to say, just like any market place of ideas, competitors will vie for influence. It’s their ulterior motive. Only the strong survive, not the best ideas, not the truth, and certainly not those movements […]
Stepping out of the highly elitist and inflexible world of professional sinology, observers will find a Taoist world that looks much more vibrant and diverse, but also increasingly deregulated and unpredictable. We are talking, of […]
This atmosphere of systematic cultural censorship and sinophobia in Europe makes it often difficult for pro-China voices to speak their mind, let alone talk Taoism. In the West, there is a constant propaganda about the […]
After the implosion of the British Empire (which is now reduced, so the cynics say, to the Greater City of London), the United States of America took the place as the benevolent global hegemon, and […]
THE OTHER European powers, meanwhile, saw their opportunities slipping through their hands: They envied the Anglo-Saxons immensely for their cultural sway. Richard Wilhelm, the ‘James Legge of the German world’, once mused, in typical German […]
WHAT goes on within Europe largely over the heads of the Asian scholars is a battle over what the Germans call ‘Deutungshoheit’ –meaning the competition for the sovereignty over the definition of thought. Everyone wishes to […]
JAMES LEGGE, the Scottish sinologist and Oxford University professor, and a representative for the London Missionary Society, became the most famous ‘translator’ of Chinese works, perhaps of all time. His choice of words, of course, […]
LET us now discuss the “discovery” of Taoism by European scholars, most of whom were also missionaries. Their first systematic contact with the Chinese civilization started in the 16th century. Marco Polo, it is true, […]
TAOISM may also be less “visible” than Buddhism in Europe, mainly because of the countless Buddha images. One can purchase a clay Buddha from any garden store for ten Euros’ worth a piece; or a ceramic […]
PERHAPS the finest allegory of Tao is that it resembles water: “Instead of contending with things, it prefers to dwell where no one would like to stay.”* In a way, this is how Taoism steadily […]
Trigger Warning: This Article Contains Chinese Loanwords BEIJING - George Lucas’s multi-billion dollars STAR WARS franchise, now owned by the Disney Company, is going to be very popular in China, too. That’s because STAR WARS is basically […]
Has radical feminism gone too far? Time to unleash “the TAO”! Transcript: Friends and colleagues, brothers and sisters! This is Thor Tukoll. I’m the author of The East-West Dichotomy. I just discovered a huge internet […]
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