Chapter 39: Warring States Era (403-221 BCE)

A Change in the Rules of War

Etiquette of war
Causes of change: 1. Nomads on horses
2. Iron farm implements & Irrigation

Chapter 40: Iron

• History
• Properties
• Scientific processes involved
• Taiji body like tempered steel
• Realigning the body structure through exercise
• Magnetization of our metal body
• Destructiveness of anti-magnetism
• Metal Fatigue applied to the body metal
• Understanding without practice a fart
• Mental pollution is the polluted metal ore
• Other useful Metallurgical concepts
• Politics of metal
• New Age Metallurgy

Chapter 41: Chuang Tzu

• Southern Ch’u & Taoism
• Taoism from the south
• Chuang Tzu (350-275 BCE)
• A typical Taoist history
• Chuang Tzu, the man
• Chuang Tzu, the book
• Dispelling some Myths
• An example of Chuang Tzu Humor
• Holding fast to the source
• Chuang Tzu model for The Journey
• Mirrors & Chuang Tzu

Chapter 42: Five phases, wu-hsing

• Externals of five-phase theory
• Fire & Water
• Earth
• Tai Chi context: always maintain boundaries
• Sha Monk, in The Journey, as earth protector
• The Mixture of Fire, Water, and Earth
• Wood
• Wood as fuel for fire
• Cultural response to the four elements
• Metal
• Metal & Immortality
• Combination of the five phases

Chapter 43: Post Confucius

• The Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean
• Legalism

Chapter 44: Ch’in Empire (221-207 BCE)

• The rise of the Ch’in
• The 'First Emperor' of Ch’in
• How to rule the Chinese Empire
• Book and scholar burning
• Ch’in accomplishments
• First Emperor Standardizes Writing