Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] tao and haiku
From: bachchaconne@my-deja.com
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 03:41:05 +0800

I dunno about the book you read, but Chuang Tzu, like everything in
philosophical Taoism (as opposed to the polytheistic religious
"aberration"), is atheist.  The highly stylized stories/rhetoric are
not to be taken literally.

Andrew

>I bought a book last week, "The Tao of Photography" (Gross and Shapiro) 
>that's about linking the Chuang-Tzu to photography. I can't make 
>progress, though, being a fairly hardened agnostic and overly suspicious 
>of spirituality/supernatural beliefs.

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