The Dancing WuLi Masters: An Overview of the New Physics October 22, 1979, Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group) Paperback. The Dancing Wu Li Masters gained attention for leveraging metaphors taken from eastern spiritual movements, in particular, the Huayen school of Buddhism with the monk Fazang’s treatise on the Golden Lion. The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter. The dancing wu li masters: an overview of the new physics 1980, Bantam Books in English. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. Zukav explains the concept further: The Wu Li Master dances with his student. At the conference, it was said that the Chinese term for physics is 'Wu Li', or 'patterns of organic energy.' Zukav, among others, conceptualized 'physics' as the dance of the Wu Li Masters – teachers of physical essence.

Zukav participated as a journalist in a 1976 physics conference of eastern and western scientists at Esalen Institute, California and he used the occasion as material for his book. This becomes somewhat of a pun as there are many other Chinese characters that could be rendered as 'wu li' in atonal pinyin, and chapters of the book are each titled with alternative translations of Wu Li, such as 'Nonsense', 'My Way' and 'I Clutch My Ideas'. The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics Author, Gary Zukav Pub Date, Binding, Paperback / softback Pages, 352 Country, United. The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics: Physics Today: Vol 32, No 8 Home > August 1979 (Volume 32, Issue 8) >, doi:10.1063/1.2995673 The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics G.

The toneless pinyin phrase Wu Li in the title is most accurately rendered 物理 in Chinese characters, one Chinese translation of the word 'physics' in the light of the book's subject matter. Gary Zukav is the author of four consecutive New York Times bestsellers.

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