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>Where intellectual type Westerners would be likely to get their ideas of
>Taoism, I'm not sure either. Aside from the many readily available
>translations with commentary of Laozi and Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), I half
>suspect much of this gets mixed up with Beat Zen and the like (did Alan
>Watts write on Taoism??). There was also the immensely popular book of the
>'70s Tao and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanance, which was taken with some
>seriousness by even high-brow types.
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Alan Watts generally wrote as a syncretist, combining elements
of Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta and (occasionally) esoteric Christianity;
but he said (to me) that he regarded his Nature, Man And Woman
as the most Taoist of his books.
The other book was Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintananc,
not Tao...
 
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