One Spirit Workshops in Essential Spirituality

08-811 Sacred Scriptures: - Studying the Tao Te Ching
With Rev. David Wallace

Thursday evenings, October 30, November 6, 13, 20
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
$125 Public, $95 OSIS Students
OSIS Credit Value: 1

Distance Learning Available (click to learn more)

Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, a masterpiece of simplicity and depth, was written nearly 3,000 years ago yet has astonishing relevance to life on earth today. Around only 5,000 characters divided into 81 brief sections, its seemingly effortless yet deeply powerful poetry holds a mirror to the mystery of the human condition and the nature of reality both in its content and its poetic form and structure.

Despite its minimalism, translation of the original classical Chinese text, has a long and complex history, frequently leaving experts with more riddles than answers. Depending on interpretation, ambiguous passages frequently take on multiple meanings. What is more, the structure of its ancient language, which alludes to a canon of ancient works that provide additional meaning, metaphor and subtext, leaves even the most adept modern Chinese scholars at odds in analysis. All this makes for an adventurous journey into a razor-sharp treatise for cutting to the quick of reality.

Join Rev. David Wallace as he sets a reflective context, leading group investigation and re-discovery of this transformational ancient wisdom, which has been translated into more languages than any book except The Bible and can be read, as Huston Smith says, “in half an hour or a lifetime.”

Rev. David Wallace is an Interfaith minister and 2nd year dean for One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. He is a graduate of the classics department of St. John’s College and is a lifelong student of the “great books” of philosophy and psychology. David has an extensive career in publishing and marketing, along with award winning work in retail.