I have a bookshelf to fill. What are some good books you all would recommend that are about VingTsun, kungfu life, philosophy, life, zen, buddism, taoism, chinese culture...etc? Thanks
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I have a bookshelf to fill. What are some good books you all would recommend that are about VingTsun, kungfu life, philosophy, life, zen, buddism, taoism, chinese culture...etc? Thanks
Taoism:Quote:
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Tao Te Ching - Translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
Te of Piglet - Benjamin Hoff
Chuang Tzu - Translated by Martin Palmaer with Elizabeth Breuilly
Buddhism:
The Accidental Buddhist - Dinty W. Moore
Life:
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
Aside about Aikido and Life:
The Spirit of Aikido - Ueshiba
Chinese Culture/Chinese Medicine:
The Web That Has No Weaver - Ted Kaptchuk
Kung-Fu:
The Complete Guide to Kung-Fu Fighting Styles - Jane Hallander
Peace,
Kenton Sefcik
Complete Wing Chun-Ritchie/ChuQuote:
Originally Posted by mossman
Living the Martial Way-MorganQuote:
kungfu life,
The Book of Five Rings-Musashi
Prometheus Rising-RAWQuote:
philosophy, life, zen, buddism, taoism,
Quantum Psychology-RAW
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chinese culture...etc? Thanks
[[I have a bookshelf to fill. What are some good books you all would recommend that are about VingTsun, kungfu life, philosophy, life, zen, buddism, taoism, chinese culture...etc? Thanks]]
On Wing Chun...
Look Beyond the Pointing Finger... David Peterson
Simple Thinking - Why Wing Chun Works Part 2... Alan Gibson
On Philosophy/Religion...
Tao of Muhammad Ali... Davis Miller
Chronicles of Tao... Deng Ming Dao
The Prince... Niccolo Machiavelli
Tao Teh Ching, Art of War, Book of 5 Rings (all published by Shambhala)
Comics :eek: :D
DK2... Frank Miller
enjoy!
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VingTsun, kungfu life:
http://www.sonypictures.com/intl/cn/...e/index_en.php
philosophy, life:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ima...283155&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0312...18#reader-link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1561...18#reader-link
zen, buddism, taoism, chinese culture...etc? :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078446/
http://home.beaumontenterprise.com/comix/10/
I have gained good insights of the Chinese philosophy from this scholarly book. You'll find WC is heavily influenced by its outlook on the nature of change and chance.
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/5644.html
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FAVORITE:
WING CHUN BOOK............ "My Life With Wing Chun" (William Cheung)
ZEN BOOK......................... "The Zen Way To The Martial Arts" (Taisen Deshimaru)
BUDDHISM BOOK................ "The Voice Of The Silence" (Helena Blavatsky)
TAOISM BOOK................... "Tao Te Ching" (Lao Tsu)
PHILOSOPHY...................... "The Kybalion - Hermetic Philosophy" (Three Initiates)
LIFE................................. "Mystic Christianity" (Yogi Ramacharaka)
"As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen
Short (<100pages) classic which is old enough to be in the public domain, and so now available online for free at a few different sites. (Try Google search.)
Can't recommend this book highly enough, and although it's title may sound Christian, it transcends any organized religion.
-Lawrence
Simple:
Why Wing Chun Works books 1, 2, 3 by Alan Gibson
Look Beyond The Pointing Finger, The Combat Philosophy Of Wong Shun Leung by David Peterson
Okay, I'll 2nd Kevin's motion on David Peterson's valuable book on Wong Shun Leung. Many good insights on WC forms and training methods. I think it's out of print though. =)
Dang! Beat me to it.Quote:
Prometheus Rising-RAW
Complete Wing Chun - Rene, Robert Chu and Y Wu
Zen and Japanese Culture - Daisetz T Suzuki
Strong on Defense - Sanford Strong
The Gift of Fear - Gavin de Becker
All of Geoff Thompson's books (esp. Watch my Back, Dead or Alive, The Fence, Fear - The Friend of Exceptional People)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig
The Mighty Atom - the spiritual journey of Joseph L Greenstein (can't remember author's name, it reminds me I lent it to someone who never returned it :mad: )
Meetings with Remarkable Men, Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson - G I Gurdjieff
The Road Less Travelled - M Scott Peck
The Fourth Way - Peter Ouspensky
Tao of JKD - Bruce Lee (the more recently published collections of his writings are great also)
Functional JKD series I & II - Matt Thornton (DVD's)
Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus - Tool (music to make you think)
BJJ Fundamentals - John Will
Advanced BJJ - the BJJ guard - John Will
BJJ Advanced Attacks and Escapes - John Will
Fight Logic - John Will
Power Yoga - Liz Lark (nice pictures too, fine looking gal)
Chuang Tzu - Inner Chapters
The 48 Laws of Power
The Prince - Machiavelli
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Angry White Pyjamas - Robert Twigger (part serious, part funny about Aikido)
and the essential lifestyle primers:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson (RIP)
How to be an Orgasm King - (just kidding)
Gee! My bibliography would be too extensive to list. But a somewhat arbitrary very short list.
On Wing Chun- The books of Augustine Fong-- all out of print except the first volume.
The theory and principles book sold out almost as soon as it appeared. Paraphrases of it appears in strange places.
Chao and Weakland- the 3 volume- Secrets of Wing Chun Kung Fu. Chao was a private student of Ip Man.
On Taiji: Almost any major video of Chen Xiao Wang and his presentaions during his first Arizona visit. Or videos of Feng Zhi Quan
Douglas Wile: The Lost Taichi Classics.
On Boxing: The Joe Jacob and John Clayton(?) collection of major old boxing films.
Jose Torres -on Tyson
Gene Tunney's major book.
On Kalaripayat: Zarilli's The Body Has a Thousand Eyes.
On Stick and Knife; Pulin Behari Das- On Lathi and Dagger
On Yoga-
Patanjali's Yoga
Vethathiri-on Kundalini Yoga
Iyengar- Light on Yoga
On Ideas-(too big to even begin)
Lankavatara Sutra
Red Pine- Zen Teachings of the Bodhidharma
Dogen- Shobygenzo
Dhammapada
Plato's Symposium (Charming but wrong treatment of Eros)
The Sayings of Diogenes(the Cynic)
Selections from Epicurus
Collected works of Thos. Jefferson
The Letters of Seneca(late Stoic)
Northrop-The Meeting of East and West
Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy.
Schrodinger'sCat
Margenau- Nature of Physical Reality
Freidman-Thoughts Without a Thinker
On relevant Chinese History-
Wakeman 2 volumes- The Great Enterprise;
The Ching conquest of China.
On General Asian MA-
Draeger and Smith-Asian Fighting Arts
Encyclopedia of Indian martial Arts
Latest Commentary on Mushashi(Shambala)
Sun Tzu-the Art of War
Tongue in Cheek_
"John Gilbey"-the Fighting Arts of the World
Vatsyansa's Kamasutra Revised. Banned before publication.
69 ways to find the centerline.
In the beginning -- a basic implementation, milestone, and core trascendental processes, of Siu Lien Tau
by Yellowpikachu. isbn4876543560988 :D
A lot of good recommendations here. I'm going to use this list next time I'm buying books. One that I've read a couple times and HIGHLY recommend is
Living the Martial Way: A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think
- by Forrest Morgan
Amazon Listing Here
Check it out. It will really pump you up about training and about the martial arts mindset. Not as specific to Wing Chun, or Philosophy, or History.....just an overall great martial arts book.
I could list a bunch more, but if you haven't read this one yet, go get it.
Daoism:
Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture
by David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames
A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation
by Chad D. Hansen
Wing Chun:
Look Beyond the Pointing Finger: the Combat Philosophy of Wong Shun Leung.
by David Peterson
Yuen Kay-San Wing Chun Kuen History & Foundation
by Renee Ritchie
Life:
Dao De Jing : A Philosophical Translation by Roger T. Ames, David L. Hall