1. THE ARTS OF THE DAO, Daoism and the Mind of China
DECEMBER 6, 2016

2. 歡迎
Huan-ying! Welcome!

3. Daoism and the Mind of China
1 November – 13 December, 2016
David J. Keegan

4. REVIEW A Daoist won’t govern Reject benevolence and virtue; be a sage
Good rulers are a disaster
The Wheelwright, butcher, and carpenter have a knack for the dao
Advising rulers is risky
Don’t improve the Hundun to death

5. The Classic of the Way & Its Power
Way 道 dao
The Zhuangzi

6. way 道 dao
carried by
breath氣 qi

7. Way 道 dao
carried by
Breath 氣 qi
embodied as
Virtue 德 de

8. naturally 自然 ziran good
Way 道 dao of politics
allows
Virtue 德 de to flourish
So that people are
naturally 自然 ziran good

9. THE ARTS OF THE DAO
DECEMBER 6, 2016

10. PREVIEW Mawangdui banner guides Lady Dai
The Three Purities paintings teach beliefs
Daoist pastorals by Li Bai & Tao Qian
Two Daoist Landscapes –
“Cloudy Mountains” & “Twin Pines”
Calligraphy captures the sinews of the Dao
The Story of the Stone, a Daoist Romance

11. DAOIST ART & LITERATURE
Funeral
Temple
Landscape & calligraphy
A Daoist Romance

12. FUNERAL POETRY & ART CALLING THE DEAD HOME “THE GREAT SUMMONS”
MAWANGDUI TOMB

13. Lady Dai’s storybook Banner

14. Lady Dai’s Banner – Underworld

15. Lady Dai’s Banner – Natural Human world

16. Lady Dai’s Banner – Her Departure

17. Lady Dai’s Banner – Afterlife

18. The Three Purities

19. DAOISM & NATURE
LANDSCAPES & POETRY

20. Li Bai
You ask me why I dwell in mountains green? I laugh and don’t reply; my heart feels just at peace. Peach blossoms with the stream float far away This is another world, not that of men.

21. Cloudy Mountains 1/

22. Cloudy Mountains 2/

23. Wang Wei, “Deer Fence”
Empty Hills, no one in sight, only the sound of someone talking; late sunlight enters the deep wood, shining over the green moss again.
Trsl Burton Watson, 19 Ways, p. 24

24. Twin Pines, Level Distance 1/
By Zhao Mengfu

25. Twin Pines, Level Distance 2/

26. 3/

27. 4/ Twin Pines, Level Distance Artist: Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322)
Period: Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
Date: ca. 1310
Culture: China
Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions: Image: 10 9/16 x 42 5/16 in. (26.8 x cm)
Overall with mounting: 10 15/16 x 25 ft. 7 11/16 in. (27.8 x cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973
Accession Number:

28. Tao Qian, “Returning to the Fields”
When I was young, I was out of tune with the herd: My only love was for the hills and mountains. Unwitting I fell into the Web of the World’s dust And was not free until my thirtieth year. . .

29. “Returning to the Fields” (end)
At gate and courtyard – no murmur of the World’s dust: In the empty rooms – leisure and deep stillness. Long I lived checked by the bars of a cage: Now I have turned again to Nature and Freedom.

30. After War & Peace or Gone with the Wind read:

31. REVIEW A Daoist, like a turtle, won’t govern
Reject benevolence and virtue
Good rulers are a disaster
The Wheelwright, butcher, and carpenter have a knack for the dao
Advising rulers is risky
Don’t improve the Hundun to death

32. Dao with a small “d” (mostly modern)
NEXT CLASS:
Dao with a small “d”
(mostly modern)
(December 13)

33. 謝謝! Thank you! Xiexie! Ju Ming “Tai-ji”
Thank you! Xiexie!

34. Resources
Michael Loewe, Ways to Paradise, The Chinese Quest for Immortality (London: George Allen Unwin, 1979) (on Mawangdui banner)
, Maxwell Hearn, How to Read Chinese Paintings (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008)
Eliot Weinberger & Octavio Paz, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (Kingston Rhode Island: Asphodel Press, 1987) (new expanded edition just published)
Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, translated by David Hawkes and John Minford, 5 vol. (Penguin, )

35. Readings on the Arts of the Dao
Tao Qian Poems from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems translated by Arthur Waley (Alfred A. Knopf, 1919)
Augustin, Birgitta. “Daoism and Daoist Art.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. (December 2011)
Mawangdui Tomb archaeology
(See also Heilbrunn articles on line on calligraphy and nature in Chinese painting.)