the arts of the dao,

THE ARTS OF THE DAO,

Daoism and the Mind of China

DECEMBER 6, 2016

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歡迎

Huan-ying! Welcome!

Daoism and the Mind of

China 1 November – 13 December, 2016

David J. Keegan

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REVIEW •A Daoist won’t govern

•Reject benevolence and virtue; be a sage

•Good rulers are a disaster

•The Wheelwright, butcher, and carpenter have a knack for the dao

•Advising rulers is risky

•Don’t improve the Hundun to death

The Classic of the Way & Its Power

Way 道 dao The Zhuangzi

way 道 dao carried by

breath氣 qi

Way 道 dao carried by

Breath 氣 qi embodied as

Virtue 德 de

Way 道 dao of politics allows

Virtue 德 de to flourish So that people are

naturally 自然 ziran good

THE ARTS OF THE DAO

DECEMBER 6, 2016

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PREVIEW •Mawangdui banner guides Lady Dai

•The Three Purities paintings teach beliefs

•Daoist pastorals by Li Bai & Tao Qian

•Two Daoist Landscapes –

“Cloudy Mountains” & “Twin Pines”

•Calligraphy captures the sinews of the Dao

•The Story of the Stone, a Daoist Romance

DAOIST ART & LITERATURE

1.Funeral

2.Temple

3.Landscape & calligraphy

4.A Daoist Romance

FUNERAL POETRY & ART

CALLING THE DEAD HOME “THE GREAT SUMMONS”

& MAWANGDUI TOMB

Lady Dai’s storybook

Banner

Lady Dai’s Banner –

Underworld

Lady Dai’s Banner – Natural Human world

Lady Dai’s Banner – Her Departure

Lady Dai’s Banner – Afterlife

The Three Purities

DAOISM & NATURE

LANDSCAPES & POETRY

Li Bai You ask me why I dwell in mountains green? I laugh and don’t reply; my heart feels just at peace. Peach blossoms with the stream float far away . . . This is another world, not that of men.

Cloudy Mountains 1/

Cloudy Mountains 2/

Wang Wei, “Deer Fence”

Empty Hills, no one in sight, only the sound of someone talking; late sunlight enters the deep wood, shining over the green moss again.

Twin Pines, Level Distance 1/

By Zhao Mengfu

Twin Pines, Level Distance 2/

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Tao Qian, “Returning to the Fields”

When I was young, I was out of tune with the herd: My only love was for the hills and mountains. Unwitting I fell into the Web of the World’s dust And was not free until my thirtieth year. . .

“Returning to the Fields” (end)

At gate and courtyard – no murmur of the World’s dust: In the empty rooms – leisure and deep stillness. Long I lived checked by the bars of a cage: Now I have turned again to Nature and Freedom.

After War & Peace or

Gone with the Wind read:

REVIEW •A Daoist, like a turtle, won’t govern

•Reject benevolence and virtue

•Good rulers are a disaster

•The Wheelwright, butcher, and carpenter have a knack for the dao

•Advising rulers is risky

•Don’t improve the Hundun to death

NEXT CLASS:

Dao with a small “d” (mostly modern)

(December 13) 32

Ju Ming “Tai-ji”

謝謝!

Thank you! Xiexie!

Resources • Michael Loewe, Ways to Paradise, The Chinese Quest for

Immortality (London: George Allen Unwin, 1979) (on Mawangdui banner)

• , Maxwell Hearn, How to Read Chinese Paintings (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008)

• Eliot Weinberger & Octavio Paz, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (Kingston Rhode Island: Asphodel Press, 1987) (new expanded edition just published)

• Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, translated by David Hawkes and John Minford, 5 vol. (Penguin, 1973-1986)

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Readings on the Arts of the Dao • Tao Qian Poems from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems

translated by Arthur Waley (Alfred A. Knopf, 1919)

• Augustin, Birgitta. “Daoism and Daoist Art.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/daoi/hd_daoi.htm (December 2011)

• Mawangdui Tomb archaeology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawangdui

• (See also Heilbrunn articles on line on calligraphy and nature in Chinese painting.)