I would recommend Natural History, setting four Taoist texts from Chuang-tzu for soprano and orchestra.
Lao Tzu's "For worship of Tao and honour of love/Are performed by being alive", for instance, becomes "For abiding and honouring the Dude/Are performed by not being a fucking asshole".
In the end, his family farmed the Shih Tzu out for a year, then reclaimed it.
See Larue, 1991, p. 31 for ancient Mesopotamia, p. 35 for ancient Egypt, and Lieh-tzu, 1960, for the Taoist classic's account of the ancient Chinese libertine hedonist Yang-chu in Ch. 7.
This optional practice is done as a protection, like a guardian angel, and is done by imagining someone you respect, ideally someone with similar qualities to that you wish to practice, so for wisdom you might humbly invite Lao Tzu or Buddha; for compassion, Gaun Yin and so on; for general strength and energy, humbly invite your ancestors.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/12/108/prepub We thank Liao, Tzu-Chi for her excellent assistance in the statistic analysis.
The authors thank the Core Laboratory of the Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital for facility support and Ms. Su-Ching Lin for technical assistance.
Its Shih Tzu line sells for $6.80 a pound.
The plot that instigates these psychic knife fights is somewhat contrived, but no matter: Jenny, a somewhat unstable woman who spends much of the first act of this short two-act play pasting photocopies of her face over the walls of her Brooklyn apartment, has kidnapped her brother's beloved dog, a Shih Tzu, in retaliation for his decision to move to San Francisco.
Where can my family find a Shih Tzu to love for the rest of his life?
