Tag: De

• March 17, 2012

  On the ‘profound de’: An excerpt from David E. Cooper’s Convergence with Nature: A Daoist Perspective

  The following, 10 lines down below the hash marks, is an excerpt from David E. Cooper’s Convergence with Nature: A Daoist Perspective (Green Books, 2012), pp. 76-7. In the Daoist tradition, the sage was someone who lived according to the Way (dao). But how was he to do so? The sage cultivated “profound de.” De can be…