•  254
    Butcher Ding : A meditation in flow
    In Karyn Lai & Wai Wai Chiu (eds.), Skill and Mastery Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi, Rowman and Littlefield International. 2019.
    In this paper, I argue that the performance stories in the Zhuangzi, and the Butcher Ding story, emphasize an activity meditation practice that places the performer in a mindfulness flow zone, leading to graceful, efficacious, selfless, spontaneous, and free action. These stories are metaphors showing the reader how to attain a meditative state of focused awareness while acting freely in a flow experience. From my perspective, these metaphors are not about developing practical or technical skill…Read more
  •  7
    Living Confucianisms: Strategies for Optimizing Harmony (edited book)
    with Rosita Dellios and R. James Ferguson
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2023.
    This collection of original essays presents diverse perspectives on the hybrid, evolving traditions of Confucianism. The chapters explore contemporary harmony across philosophy, religion, politics, linguistics, diplomacy, international relations, and education, with writers from numerous cultural and national backgrounds.
  •  4
    Contributors to Volume 5
    with Krirll Thompson
    Journal of Chinese Philosophy 8 (2): 267-270. 1981.
  •  363
    This chapter offers a brief introduction to Xuanxue Wei Jin Dynasty philosophy.
  •  111
    This chapter offers an interpretation of Roger Ames' use of the field-focus ontology, tying the topic to Daoist meditation practices.
  •  1082
    Zhu Xi and Daoism
    In Kai-Chiu Ng & Yong Huang (eds.), Dao Companion to Zhu Xi, . 2019.
    This chapter argues that ZHU Xi was influenced by Daoism. His philosophy begins with the Diagram of the Great Polarity or Taijitu 太極圖 which has Daoist origins. Later in life he studied two Daoist texts, namely, The Seal of the Unity of the Three in the Zhou Book of Changes or the Zhouyi Cantongqi 周易參同契, and The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of the Secret Talisman or the Huangdi Yinfujing 黃帝陰符經. The chapter begins with a discussion about the nature of Daoism and inner meditative alchemy. Then I discus…Read more
  •  160
    Free-will and Non-attachment in the Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Philosophical Quarterly 14 (4): 375. 1987.
    The paper argues that there is a unique from of free will in the Gita based on the universal presence of the ultimate reality.
  •  594
    Correlative Thinking in Pacific Island (Micronesian) Cultural Philosophies
    Pacific Asia Inquiry: Multidisciplinary Perspectives 11 154-175. 2021.
    To continue the project of explicating Pacific values and worldviews, this paper focuses on correlative thinking in some of the cultural philosophies of the Pacific islands, especially Micronesia. Correlative thinking differs, in degree, from scientific and academic logic that emphasize the truth-value of statements. After examining aspects of correlative thinking in Bali and the Philippines, I extract some characteristics of Pacific philosophies from cu…Read more
  •  147
    Reading Through Recovered Ancient Chinese Manuscripts ed. by Shirley Chan (review)
    Philosophy East and West 70 (4): 1-4. 2020.
    Shirley Chan and twelve other established scholars prepared fourteen insightful, detailed textual analyses of several of the recovered ancient Chinese manuscripts. The book consists of a Preface, Acknowledgements, fourteen chapters, and a list of contributors. The five chapter titles that begin with Chinese are written in Chinese, with English abstracts. In the Preface Shirley Chan notes the diversity in unity of the essays. The authors use their respective areas of specialization and different …Read more