Tao Te Ching
Charles Luk 陆宽昱
1898 – 1978 CE
Upāsaka, translator, disciple of Tibetan Vajrayana,Taoist and Chán meditation masters; Charles Luk began translating famous Chinese texts into English before most people in the West had had even heard of these traditions. He translated Buddhist Sutras, important books on Daoist Neidan meditation, and wrote many commentaries and biographies.
Lineages
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Generations
The Lost Generation (1883 – 1900 CE)Unlisted Sources
Ch'an and Zen Teaching (1960)
Chan and Zen Teaching (1961)
Quotes by Charles Luk (2 quotes)
“[Everyone has] an inner potentiality which can absorb the truth but cannot be activated as long as the mind is not disentangled from its attachments to the phenomenal.”
from Ch'an and Zen Teaching (1960)
Comments: Click to comment
“The absolute reality is inconceivable and inexpressible and the more a master speaks of it, the more he will stray from it. For this reason, Yun Men said that the old masters were talking nonsense and asked the monk if they had stopped 'talking in their sleep'.”
from Chan and Zen Teaching (1961)
Comments: Click to comment
Comments (0)