Book of Chen Jen

Beginning on May 21, 2010, I began to post Scott Bradley’s rough draft of a book he’s committed many years work on.

To download the entire manuscript as a pdf, go here. (Thanks to Ta Wan!)

Book of Chen Jen – Introduction, Part 1 + Part 2

Stories from The Wanderings of Chen Jen
(section 1 of the book)

• The Battle Ground
• The Pebbles
• The Bird of Plenty, Part 1 + Part 2
• The Cave
• King Ching Chi
• The Old Woman
• Assailed by Bandits
• A Head Like a Pumpkin
• The Bandit Leader, Part 1 + Part 2 + Part 3
• At a River Crossing, Part 1 + Part 2 + Part 3
• The Wild Hermit, Part 1 + Part 2 + Part 3
• The Simple Farmer
• A Time of Employ
• What They Want to Be
• The Surly Sage, Part 1 + Part 2
• The Way of a Fly
• A Time in the Sun
• A Gaggle of Geese, Part 1 + Part 2
• The Forest of Dark Sages, Part 1 + Part 2 + Part 3
• Two Devotees, Part 1 + Part 2
• The Trees Dance, Part 1 + Part 2
• Old Bones
• A River Finds Its Way
• Flow, Part 1 + Part 2
• Passing

The Sayings of Chen Jen
(section 2 of the book)

Introduction by The Rambling Taoist

• Sayings 01 – There Is No Tao
• Sayings 02 – The Tao Is Empty
• Sayings 03 – There Is But One True Mystery
• Sayings 04 – It Matters Not
• Sayings 05 – Lay Down the Burden
• Sayings 06 – Mourn This Gnat
• Sayings 07 – Follow Self-Deceit
• Sayings 08 – Experience Understanding
• Sayings 09 – Fix What Is Broken
• Sayings 10 – A River Finds Its Way (I)
• Sayings 11 – What Are Words?
• Sayings 12 – Consider Ignorance
• Sayings 13 – Know Nothing
• Sayings 14 – There Is No Faith
• Sayings 15 – Totter on the Brink
• Sayings 16 – You Will Recognize Your Teacher
• Sayings 17 – All Is But a River
• Sayings 18 – How Clear Are Your Waters?
• Sayings 19 – Follow the Tao
• Sayings 20 – Close the Book!
• Sayings 21 – Ready for Death
• Sayings 22 – Embrace the Right
• Sayings 23 – What Is the Self?
• Sayings 24 – I Write to No End
• Sayings 25 – There Are No Answers
• Sayings 26 – Hopeless and Meaningless
• Sayings 27 – Fight Fire with Fire
• Sayings 28 – There Is No Way
• Sayings 29 – Stop!
• Sayings 30 – Life Is Full When Empty
• Sayings 31 – Look Within the Limited
• Sayings 32 – Step Through the Veil
• Sayings 33 – Realize Your Humanity
• Sayings 34 – Yes!
• Sayings 35 – Seek the Man of Tao
• Sayings 36 – Let the End Be the Means
• Sayings 37 – Who Are These Sages?
• Sayings 38 – Drift.  Meander.
• Sayings 39 – What Difference Memories?
• Sayings 40 – There Was a Man
• Sayings 41 – Life and Death Are Equal (I)
• Sayings 42 – Let All Be
• Sayings 43 – If Reading Is Doing
• Sayings 44 – A River Finds Its Way (II)
• Sayings 45 – Positive Clings to Negative
• Sayings 46 – What Is Nature? (I)
• Sayings 47 – I Once Felt Compassion
• Sayings 48 – Grasp Nothing
• Sayings 49 – Have You Found It?
• Sayings 50 – Death Cures All Ills
• Sayings 51 – The Sage Is No One
• Sayings 52 – If You Know
• Sayings 53 – To Know the Unknown
• Sayings 54 – How Do I Know?
• Sayings 55 – Nature Does Not Care
• Sayings 56 – Thankfulness Arises
• Sayings 57 – When Hope Dies
• Sayings 58 – Nature Speaks
• Sayings 59 – Life and Death Are Equal (II)
• Sayings 60 – What Is Emptiness?
• Sayings 61 – What Is Nature? (II)
• Sayings 62 – Go With the Flow
• Sayings 63 – Would You Know the Truth?
• Sayings 64 – It’s Finished!
• Sayings 65 – Harmony
• Sayings 66 – A River Finds Its Way (III)
• Sayings 67 – What Point in Awakening?
• Sayings 68 – What is Ignorance?
• Sayings 69 – Your Path Is Unique to You
• Sayings 70 – A River Finds Its Way (IV)
• Sayings 71 – Can You Forget the World?
• Sayings 72 – What Matters? (I)
• Sayings 73 – There Is No Truth
• Sayings 74 – What Matters? (II)
• Sayings 75 – There Is No Void
• Sayings 76 – What Matters? (III)
• Sayings 77 – My Way

Interview with the Author
(section 3 of the book)

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Part 9
• Part 10
• Part 11
• Part 12
• Part 13
• Part 14

Bonus Material
(Chen Jen Commentary on First Five Verses of the Tao Te Ching)

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5