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Tables of Contents for The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
28
The Sources
5
5
Root Metaphors and Conceptual Schemes
10
8
Early Chinese Religion
18
5
Water and Plant Life
23
3
Procedure
26
3
Water
29
34
Shui, ``Water''
32
3
Water with a Source Flows Continuously
35
4
Water Flows along a Course
39
2
Water Flows Downward
41
5
Water Carries Detritus
46
1
Soft and Weak, Yielding, and Uncontending
47
2
Water Takes Any Shape
49
1
Still Water Becomes Level
49
1
Still Water Clears Itself of Sediment and Becomes Reflective
50
3
Water is Difficult to See
53
1
Mountains and Rivers
54
3
Water and Fire
57
6
The Way and Other Ideas
63
30
The ``Way'' (Dao)
66
4
The Analects and the Mencius
70
3
The Laozi and the Zhuangzi
73
6
``Doing Nothing'' (Wuwei)
79
6
The Mind/Heart (Xin)
85
2
``Breath,'' ``Vapor,'' ``Vital Energy'' (Qi)
87
6
Sprouts of Virtue
93
30
The Myriad Living Things (Wan Wu)
96
5
Virtue or Inner Power (De)
101
6
Nature (Xing)
107
4
The ``Shoots'' (Cai) (Original Material of Natural Endowment)
111
2
The Sprouts (Duan) of The Mind/Heart
113
2
Humaneness (Ren)
115
1
That which Is So of Itself (Ziran)
115
2
The Artificial and the Natural (Wei and Xing)
117
6
The Philosophers
123
26
The Analects
128
2
The Mencius
130
6
The Laozi Daodejing
136
7
The Zhuangzi
143
3
Conclusion
146
3
Notes
149
10
Bibliography
159
6
Chinese Texts
165
2
Index of Translations from Chinese Texts
167
4
Index of Chinese Terms
171
4
Subject Index
175