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Bing Chen was my Chinese-language tutor for several months before I left for work in Beijing. I found her approach very helpful and enjoyable. Bing has a firm grasp of Chinese grammar and is able to explain it clearly. She also shows remarkable patience with the slow learning of her student. I have had other teachers of Chinese, but I can say that Bing is the most professional and effective. Her one-on-one approach allows the student to move at the necessary pace for mastering the lessons at hand inlcuding tones, grammar, reading, and vocabulary. Presently I am in Beijing, but I intend to continue studying with Bing when I return to New York.
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Tao De Jin- Abstraction PDF Print E-mail
2. Abstraction
When beauty is abstracted
Then ugliness has been implied;
When good is abstracted
Then evil has been implied.

So alive and dead are abstracted from nature,
Difficult and easy abstracted from progress,
Long and short abstracted from contrast,
High and low abstracted from depth,
Song and speech abstracted from melody,
After and before abstracted from sequence.

The sage experiences without abstraction,
And accomplishes without action;
He accepts the ebb and flow of things,
Nurtures them, but does not own them,
And lives, but does not dwell.

Tao De Jin, ancient philosophy
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