Six Cover Ideas: The Tao Te Ching Journal
The consensus as of 10:20am eastern. I’ll keep this updated over the next day or two.
Ensō Cover
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Island Dream Cover
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Abstract Harmony Cover
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Painting: All Things Return (Original)
As work on the Tao Te Ching Journal nears completion, it is time to select a cover. In part we need to make this decision now because we’ve booked advertising in the major Buddhist journals — Lion’s Roar and Tricycle — and it is time to submit the ads.
If you would be willing to share your opinion on which cover you prefer, that would be much appreciated. You can email any thoughts you have to rod@herondance.org or post them in the Substack comment section here.
Within a week, we’ll offer The Tao Te Ching journal at a pre-publication discount. Also, for Members who have supported this work with a recurring or one-time contribution within the last year, we’ll be sending out discount codes that provide free shipping and 25% off on originals. First, we need to finish some final work on the website which will take a few more days. One of the website changes is a 50% reduction in price of all archival canvas prints. The prices on most prints have already been adjusted — there are only about ten of 200 still to do.
Of the images above, three are currently available as originals:
If you are interested in any of these originals, and are a contributing Member, email me and I’ll make the adjustment.
If you are not a contributing Member, you can become one here.
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Everything Heron Dance does and offers is summarized here.
Zen Buddhism resulted from the encounter between Buddhism from India and Taoism from northern China. Poetry was an important part of the tradition of the Taoist hermit monks of the Zhongnan Mountains. The Tao Te Ching is the best known of those poems but there were thousands of others written over two thousand years ago. Many are as beautiful and mysterious as the Tao.
Zen Mountain Journal also draws from the poetry of the Zen Buddhist monks of old Japan.
Zen Mountain Journal offers a Taoist journaling practice for those who seek to connect with inner worlds, with the deep silence and peace within. The poems and paintings in these posts are part of a journal now being created by Heron Dance Press. It will be available for preorder shortly.
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