Word: taoist
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...even though there is a championship series afterward (the San Antonio Spurs meet the Portland Trailblazers in Western Conference finals), this could be the best matchup of the play-offs. Though the Pacers are favored, many sportswriters are now wondering if the Knicks' slapdash style is the Taoist answer to a messy season. After all, if the fans didn't care about the lockout, why should the Pacers be rewarded for trying to act as if it didn't happen...
...demanding, a return to something deeper, or less of the moment. The surprise best seller of two years ago--a serious literary novel by a first timer, no less--was a retelling of The Odyssey in the culture of the Civil War (with a flavor directly taken from the Taoist hermits of old China). It was replaced by another debut novel set, for nearly all its 428 pages, in the teahouses of Kyoto in the 1930s. Just as last year, during the Capitol soap opera, the American public showed itself wiser than its rulers, so in our free time...
...half-light at the end of the Civil War. Charles Frazier's miraculous (and best-selling) first novel is as spare as timeless myth, one man's yearning homeward. Yet its deeply local details, its twiggy smell of roots and solitary eccentrics, evoke the spirit of Thoreau--and the Taoist hermits who once haunted the Cold Mountains of old China...
...barrier remains: acupuncture springs from a system of faith that scientists find almost incomprehensible. The treatment rests on the Taoist belief that two life forces, yin and yang, combine to produce a vital life energy, called ch'i (or qi), that flows through the body along pathways known as meridians, which were charted thousands of years ago. People get sick when these life forces are knocked out of balance, and the job of the acupuncturists is to nudge ch'i back into equilibrium. They do this by pushing needles through the skin, sometimes several inches into the body, at specific...
Other religious leaders in Taiwan are barely polite. The secretary-general of the Taoist Association says he has information that she has bought up vast tracts of land in Cambodia. Master Chinhsing, a Buddhist monk of Vietnamese origin who may have been Ching Hai's mentor, disapproves of her departure from the austere ways of Buddhist tradition. He has reportedly warned her never to identify herself as his former student...