The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
- Lin Yutang, 1895-1975, Chinese writer and inventor
Carl Van Vechten, 1939
Source: Wikipedia
Welcome to My Lin Yutang Page - G8INA
David Harris, of G8INA Sound Studios, considers Dr. Lin Yutang to be his spiritual guide and mentor.Lin Yutang's Introduction to Chuangtse: Mystic and Humorist - ReligiousWorlds.com
...On the whole, Chuangtse must be considered the greatest prose writer of the Chou Dynasty, as Ch'u: Yu:an must be considered the greatest poet. His claim to this position rests both upon the brilliance of his style and the depth of his thought. That explains the fact that although he was probably the greatest slanderer of Confucius, and with Motse, the greatest antagonist of Confucian ideas, no Confucian scholar has not openly or secretly admired him. People who would not openly agree with his ideas would nevertheless read him as literature. ...Sinologists: Lin Yutang - University of Massachusetts
Sinologists are often little acquainted with the tradition in which they work, and the tradition in which they work is thus in danger of being lost, even as they work in it. ...
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