Main Description
“Spiritual Food for Our Daily Lives” of Way, not only enriching your own life but also steering the world in the right directions.
A scripture for practical use that can nurture your working and family life.
May the Way of old Laozi become your Way, and may you become a seeker of the Way, a practitioner of the Way, and a master of Way, not only enriching your own life but also steering the world in the right directions.
We need the wisdom to reinterpret the Daodejing in a way that is suited to these times. I would like to offer such an interpreta-tion, sharing its familiar wisdom with our political leaders, our educators, and our common people with shopping baskets in tow. It seems to me that we have long understood the dao (the Way) shared by Laozi as something too lofty, too much like a form of playing with ideas.
I believe that now is the time for us to draw the daode (the Way and its virtue) that Laozi described to us as part of the reali-ty closest to us, to devote our passion to living the nameless Way and the virtue of nonaction. It should not be the Daodejing as a pie-in-the-sky ideal but spiritual food in our daily lives. It should be a scripture for practical use that can nurture our working and family lives. For this purpose, I have strived to explain the Daode-jing in such a way that its teaching can be easily applicable to our lives.
My earnest hope is that you read Daodejing over and over, and contemplate its meaning again and again so that the Way of old Laozi becomes your Way and you become a seeker of the Way, a practitioner of the Way, and a master of Way, not only enriching your own life but also steering the world toward right directions.
Author Biography
Prime Dharma Master Kyongsan
Venerable Kyongsan (Jang Eung-cheol, b. 1940)
is the fifth Prime Dharma Master of Won- Buddhism. He entered the Won-Buddhist faith at the age of twenty and graduated from the Department of Won-Buddhist Studies at Wonkwang University in 1968. He served as president of the Youngsan College of S n Studies, executive director of administration for Won-Buddhism, and director of the Jung-ang Training Center of Won-Buddhism before being inaugurated as the fifth Prime Dharma Master in 2006. Today, his work includes the great Buddha offering of spreading the dharma, personalization of the doctrine, extension of grace, operating according to the Won-Buddhist regulations, and sowing blessings for the coming centuries. His books include The Moon of the Mind Rises in Empty Space, Freedom from Transgressive Karma, The Functioning of a Buddha’s Mind, The Shore of Freedom, The Middle Way: The Way of the Sage, and Herding the Ox of Our Mind