Taking up Death’s Scythe

April 19, 2007

Taking up Death’s Scythe

Thinking about the violent deaths at Virginia Tech this week.

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Jeff Lilly

Jeff Lilly is a Druid, linguist, and author. He writes about Druid things — meditation, relationship with Spirit, soulful fulfillment in scholarship and art, reconnecting the ancient with the modern, creating beauty, and healing the world. He also dabbles in all kinds of fiction, from the speculative to the fantastic. He lives with his wife and their cats near Seattle, WA.

5 responses to “Taking up Death’s Scythe”

David McIntosh

April 24, 2007 at 1:46 pm

I love that chapter of the TTC. I know someone who goes to Virginia Tech, so it felt a little different from all the other recent atrocities.

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Jeff Lilly

April 24, 2007 at 2:17 pm

I have always found the TTC to be far and away the most inspiring and insightful of any of the holy books in the world. This despite the fact that the various translations all sound so very different…

What do you think of this “translation”? It’s my own concoction/triangulation of half a dozen translations.

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Kara-Leah Masina

May 2, 2007 at 4:57 pm

Hey Jeff,

I love this – I’ve never read the TTC before. And thank you for including my article on here as related reading, much appreciated.

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David McIntosh

May 3, 2007 at 2:02 pm

Well, I haven’t read the original, but it sounds very much like something the TTC would say.

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Jeff Lilly

May 4, 2007 at 10:12 am

Kara-Leah, you would LOVE the Tao te Ching. Get thee hence immediately to one of the online translations. Better yet, go to the library and check out the translation by Jane English and Gia-Fu Feng, that’s my favorite. I have some examples of their translations here, as well. Gorgeous stuff.

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