How Long to Read 英文版菜根譚

How Long Does it Take to Read 英文版菜根譚?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 45 minutes to read 英文版菜根譚 by Zicheng Hong

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Unencumbered Spirit is a tour de force on the essence of life, human nature, and how to live a good simple life-all distilled through the lens of the Three Creeds: Taoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism. We know almost nothing of Hung Ying-ming, except that he lived around the end of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and that he was extraordinarily well-read and cultured. He was most likely a literati, a type of man who found fulfillment in simple pleasures: reading classic literature, rambling through nature, laughing and drinking with friends, and practicing various accomplishments from calligraphy to the martial arts. Hung Ying-ming and many of the literati had an almost mystical concept of literature. Just as the patterns of a flight of birds express the underlying principles of nature, so the patterns of the best literature express the Tao, or the Way, in man. So in a sense, The Unencumbered Spirit is a handbook of the Way, its verses to be intuitively and spontaneously understood through contemplation such as is practiced even today in Zen and other meditative activities. The great value of The Unencumbered Spirit is that so many of these sources of contemplation have been set down in a single volume with clarity. In Hung's poetic prose are expressed the infinite transformations of the world's opposites, what the Chinese called yin and yang-good and evil, honesty and deception, wisdom and foolishness, heaven and hell. Wise, profound, spiritual, humorous, witty, and timeless, The Unencumbered Spirit is, in short, a book about tossing greed and competition overboard. It is a book about getting at the true clear, clean taste of things without all of the distracting and encumbering sauces and spices. It is a book about living without stuff, whether it be material, psychological, or spiritual. About living with simplicity and awareness.

How long is 英文版菜根譚?

英文版菜根譚 by Zicheng Hong is 223 pages long, and a total of 56,419 words.

This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read 英文版菜根譚 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 8 minutes to read 英文版菜根譚 aloud.

What Reading Level is 英文版菜根譚?

英文版菜根譚 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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