About this episode

The episode discusses the significance of water as a metaphor in ancient Chinese philosophy, drawing insights from Sarah Allen's works.

This is a sort of book report Jeff brings after reading Sarah Allen, The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue (Chinese Philosophy Culture). We discuss how in ancient China, the root metaphor of water was the focus itself. It's not as if water is a metaphor for an abstract reality. Its flow is the flow. Meditating on water is to glimpse the Tao, not an object lesson for some ideology.

People in this episode

Host: Jeff

Topics covered

• Chinese philosophy
• water metaphor
• Tao
• ancient China
• virtue

Keywords

• water
• Tao
• Chinese philosophy
• metaphor
• virtue
• ancient China

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Way of Water, Sprouts of Virtue

Places: China

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