Nature, Man and Woman

From “perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West-and an author who `had the rare gift of `writing beautifully the unwritable'” (Los Angeles Times)-a guide that draws on Chinese Taoism to reexamine humanity's place in the natural world and the relation between body and spirit.

Western thought and culture have coalesced around a series of constructed ideas-that human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled; that the mind is somehow su...