Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in Biography (2010)
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Finalist: Indie 2010 New Generation Award
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Finalist: Colorado Authors’ League Top Hand Award
Teacher, translator and Tai Ji master, Gia Fu-Feng is remembered for his colorful life in which he learned and taught alongside some of the twentieth century’s greatest writers and thinkers, including Jack Kerouac and Alan Watts. Through his life and work, he sought to bring the ancient wisdom of the Tao into the modern world. His translation of the Tao Te Ching has sold over 1,250,000 copes and is widely considered to be one of the most readable and influential translations of our time. Carol Ann Wilson, sister to Gia-fu’s heir, used Gia-fu’s biographical notes and numerous outside sources to write the extraordinary story of a rogue Taoist sage.
Karl-Heinz Knebel says
My Name is Karl-Heinz. I live in Germany, close to Stuttgart in the south-west of this country. I lived at Stillpoint from September 1982 till February 1983. Today I have to say that Stillpoint and Gia Fu saved my live at that time. I was 27 years old. Later, in September 1983 I came back to Stillpoint and stood there till August 1984. I still remember Gia Fu talking to me while putting his hands on my shoulders: “Charly, you are my son”. Later I recognized slowly what it meant. At that time everybody named me “Charly”.
Gia Fu at that time was already quite sick. I loved him as a son his father loves. Is there anybody who still knows me, has been in Stillpoint at that time too? I remember Carmen Baehr, Tim, Franz, Sue, Carol and some more, which hardly I know their names anymore. It would be a pleasure for me to get an answer. My email adress:
khknebel99@aol.com
Karl-Heinz Knebel says
I forgot to leave my homepage:
http://www.karl-heinz-knebel.de