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Taoism and Chinese Religion

Trying Not to Try

The Art and Science of Spontaneity

by Edward Slingerland

A book for general readers that sets the early Chinese ideals of wu wei and de beside modern psychology and cognitive science. Slingerland explains how Confucians and Taoists approached the problem of becoming spontaneous.

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