Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Spiritual Beliefs and Universal Wisdom: To Catch a Hare - Reflections on Chinese Wisdom and Beliefs - Tapa dura

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Adeline Yen Mah was born in Shanghai, studied in London, and now works and lives in California. She is married with two children.

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'Once there was a boy who was told by his master to catch a hare. He went into the woods and looked around. Lo and behold, he saw a hare running along at full speed. As he watched in astonishment, the hare ran smack into a tree and knocked itself unconscious. All the boy had to do was to pick it up. For the rest of his life, the boy waited behind the same tree in the hope that more hares would do the same thing.'

The only thing that does not change is that everything changes

Over one million readers world-wide discovered Adeline Yen Mah through her first book, 'Falling Leaves'. They will welcome this intensely personal interpretation of Chinese wisdom and beliefs.

Reflecting on her own experience of what she herself found most precious as she grew up in China, Adeline Yen Mah shares with us her views of Chinese Philosophy, history and language and shows how those in the west can benefit from the east.

Adeline Yen Mah absorbed Chinese traditions through conversations with her grandfather and her aunt. Those teachings have played an important role in her understanding of Chinese thought and inspired the original interpretation of ancient books such as 'I Ching' and 'Tao Te Ching'.

'Watching the Tree' is the chronicle of one woman's spiritual journey interwoven with the concepts of China's greatest thinkers, illuminated by true stories from Adeline Yen Mah's past.