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Post by vincent on May 5, 2021 14:49:38 GMT -5
I read it years ago but i just found out that Carl Jung wrote a whole commentary on it. |
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Post by Roshan on May 12, 2021 19:46:56 GMT -5
And your angle, Vincenzo?
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Post by vincent on May 13, 2021 8:07:04 GMT -5
Well, i find it interesting that Jung's commentary advised against practicing the book's teachings, declared them unsuitable for Westerners, and promoted his own psychoanalysis as a more suitable equivalent instead.
According to the translator Thomas Cleary Jung's interpretation of the text is largely wrong and missed most of its mystical insight, because of translation issues and lack of knowledge of the cultural context but also because of Jung's biases.
Anyway, the Golden Flower is a very interesting read in itself and i thought it belonged to "related topics" because, in a way, it's a book about "freedom from fixations", and it has some similarity with Ramana Maharshi's teachings.
I'm not done re-reading it though, and i'll try to expand on this later.
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Post by Roshan on May 13, 2021 8:21:51 GMT -5
Anyway, the Golden Flower is a very interesting read in itself and i thought it belonged to "related topics" because, in a way, it's a book about "freedom from fixations", and it has some similarity with Ramana Maharshi's teachings.
It definitely does but I posted Maharshi's 'Nan Yar' as self-standing ('in itself', that's how this section originated actually). Putting Jung's commentary with 'The Golden Flower' showed you had some 'intellectual' angle on it so I asked. |
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Post by vincent on May 13, 2021 8:39:04 GMT -5
It definitely does but I posted Maharshi's 'Nan Yar' as self-standing ('in itself', that's how this section originated actually). Putting Jung's commentary with 'The Golden Flower' showed you had some 'intellectual' angle on it so I asked.
Yes i did, right.
Cleary's criticism might be a bit unfair, as he seems biased toward a very metaphysical and Chan-influenced understanding of the Tao, but even if it is, i have little doubt that Jung missed something big here, and i suspect it has some implications for understanding what the Unconscious is and isn't.
tbcd.
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