蔡志忠漫画图书已经在44个国家出版，销售达到4000万册。中英文版蔡志忠漫画共10个品种，本书是其中的一册，蔡志忠用他独特而富有吸引力的画风，将中国古代典籍中博大精深的思想深入浅出地呈现给您。儒家构建和谐社会的智慧、道家崇尚自然与自由的智慧、兵家不战而胜的智慧……通过他画笔下一个个鲜活、有趣、生动的形象得到简明、精确、通俗的阐释。和以往出版物不同的是，这套丛书画面上的人物对话和情节说明全部是英文，边框里保留了古汉语原文，既满足了国外读者和英语学习者的阅读需要，也最大程度地保存了古代著作的文字精华，具有文学参考价值和收藏价值。

中国早期思想家的著作影响了中国文化和社会的方方面面，从教育到艺术，从政治和战争到日常礼节。广受欢迎的漫画家蔡志忠先生一直致力于用他独特而富有吸引力的画风将这些古代经典著作的智慧带入生活。这一中国传统思想系列漫画映射出历史上伟大思想家们的光辉；包括： ●孔子说 ●孟子说 ●菜根谭 ●六朝怪谈 ●老子说I ●论语 ●列子说 ●世说新语 ●老子说II ●韩非子说 ●聊斋志异 ●六祖坛经 ●孙子说 ●庄子说I ●史记 ●禅说 ●庄子说II ●大学·中庸 蔡志忠先生最早是因为他获奖的多部动画电影和每日连载漫画引起大众的关注的。在长期的自学之后，蔡志忠先生将创作方向转移到经典著作上。作品广受评论家的好评并快速成为畅销书。蔡先生的书已被美国知名出版社如，Princeton University Press和Knop出版。Brian Bruya是此系列书美国版的译者，拥有夏威夷大学比较哲学的博士学位。他是中国早期哲学研究领域的专家和翻译，同时还是一个关子中国哲学研究的网站“书海文苑”的总编辑。

DHARMA SAYINGS

THE DHARMA SUTRA

DELUSIONS

Suffering follows your polluted

 mind

Joy follows your pure mind

Resentment stays alive in relived

  memories

Resentment dissolves when we

 let go

Patience stops resentment

Even I do not own myself

Ignorant people with self

awareness

Eleven kinds of fire

No attachment is worse than

resentment

Like a torrent submerging a

  sleeping village

Hold the mind aS a mirror,

  without bending forward or

  back

The wise ones do not worry about

  the future

Less than one-sixteenth of Dharma

joy

Delusion over aStrology

Peolple need to save themse

  lves

Practice is the only way

What is all

All acts are transient

SUFFERING

Looking for the house builder

If the heart is unsettled

An enemy mentality is the worst

enemy

No escape

The heart does not judge

Nirvana is the utmost joy

Desires bring few joys and much

 pain

Self-discipllne in every area is a virtue

Nothing belongs to me

Separation from loved ones causes

  suffering

Treating ourselves as the enemy

Face the consequences of one's

actious

Proper Dhaarma keeps us from

  spinning our wheels

Distancing ourselves from all eviles

Diligently helping ourselves

Treating ourselves well

Seek~ red.go in ourselves

Reading one thousand verses

Practise what is preached

Living one hundred years is not

  as good as being vigilant for

one day

Like the tongue tasting soup

A herder counting others'

 cattle

Pretty in appearance, but witho

  fragrance

Not by walking around naked JOY

We really live joyfully

If we keep proper mindfulness

I am so serene

Overcoming difficult challenges evil

It is rare to find such unique

 opportunities

Quiescence is the utmost joy

Patience in adversity is most

 difficult to achieve

Good practitioners cultivate sel

 discipline

Wise ones discipline the mind

 like bow makers straightening arrows

Like fish hying without water

Let go of both victory and defeat

People share the same manta-lity

Avoid attachment

CULTIVATING SPirituality

Refrain from any evll deeds

A house built sloppily will

 definitely leak

Buddha is the only lecturer

Purify the mind and suffering ends

Like a fierce fire that burns up

 all Confining ropes

Like bees collecting nectar

Quietly accept slander from others

Master of the consciousness

Like an elephant on a hattie field

Return hatred with love

This is real

Evll friends are more frightening

  than fierce beasts

Do not keep company with

  fools

Do not befriend fools

Like an elephant marching in a

  forest

Like the elephant trainer discipiing an elephant

WISE ONES

The way to realization.

Wise ones are islands above the flood waters

Like sturdy rocks

Virtuous ones leave all desires

Wise ones abandon small

 pleasures

Wise ones guard their mind

Not watching others' faults

Seeting faults in others is easy

Do not luxuriate in hedonistic pleasure

Giving up evil and taking up

goodness to become a tranquil Buddha

THE OTHER SHORE

Do not be greedy for earthly profit

Few can reach"the Other Shore"

Self as self's refuge

Being awake within a sleeping crowd

Avoiding indulgence is the way to stay alive

Beheving in truths and abiding by precepts

Nirvana is the utmost goal

Quietness is the sweetest joy

CONCLUDING NOTES