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5.0
The slim book contains various meditations based on walks up Hunger Mountain by David Hinton and his meditations on ancient Chinese sages and a few graphs. He opens up a conceptual framework of these ancients that "is secular, and yet deeply spiritual".
We get musings on language, place, and worldviews. David Hinton is a scholar and translator of ancient Chinese poetry so he brings a lot to the book and I really enjoyed the unpacking of some of the graphs and concepts that he shares with us.
It makes me want to have a mountain that I can go on for walks from the back garden... Hunger Mountain in autumn is a real place in Vermont, as well as being muse, and this is a modern pondering of the ten thousand things and in doing so links us back to the ancients.
[08 Jan 2016 I saw some oracle bones in the British Library similar to the ones David Hinton talks about in his book and it made me appreciate them even more having read this book. They were very interesting ones and included some prescriptions for humans and horses.]
We get musings on language, place, and worldviews. David Hinton is a scholar and translator of ancient Chinese poetry so he brings a lot to the book and I really enjoyed the unpacking of some of the graphs and concepts that he shares with us.
It makes me want to have a mountain that I can go on for walks from the back garden... Hunger Mountain in autumn is a real place in Vermont, as well as being muse, and this is a modern pondering of the ten thousand things and in doing so links us back to the ancients.
[08 Jan 2016 I saw some oracle bones in the British Library similar to the ones David Hinton talks about in his book and it made me appreciate them even more having read this book. They were very interesting ones and included some prescriptions for humans and horses.]
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