Tao Te Ching (Daodejing): The Tao and the PowerThe original mindfulness book, in a landmark new translation by the award-winning translator of the I Ching and The Art of War The most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or "Book of the Tao," is a guide to cultivating a life of peace, serenity, and compassion. Through aphorisms and parable, it leads readers toward the Tao, or the "Way": harmony with the life force of the universe. Traditionally attributed to Lao-tzu, a Chinese philosopher thought to have been a contemporary of Confucius, it is the essential text of Taoism, one of the three major religions of ancient China. As one of the world's great works of wisdom literature, it still has much to teach us today, offering a practical model based on modesty and self-restraint for living a balanced existence and for opening your mind, freeing your thoughts, and attaining greater self-awareness. With its emphasis on calm, simplicity, purity, and non-action, it provides a time-tested refuge from the busyness of modern life. This new translation seeks to understand the Tao Te Ching as a guide to everyday living and encourages a slow, meditative reading experience. The Tao Te Ching's eighty-one brief chapters are accompanied by illuminating commentary, interpretation, poems, and testimonials by the likes of Margaret Mead, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. Specially commissioned calligraphy for more than two hundred Chinese characters illustrates the book's essential themes. |
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༡༤ ༡༥ abide Action All-under-Heaven Arthur Waley Attain Beneath Book of Taoist Breath-Energy Calamity Chapter Chinese Clarity and Calm Cleave Commentary Confucius Cultivate Daodejing Dark Deep Desire Dust Duyvendak dwells Embrace Emptiness Endure Eschews Essence False Knowledge Flow Harmony Heaven and Earth Human Heart-and-Mind Infant Inner Marvel Inner Power jade John Minford Know Lao-tzu Laozi Life-Destiny Liu Ling live MAGISTER LIU Meddle Mother mountains Myriad Things Mystery Mystic Power Non-Action Non-Being Not-Contending Nourishes Nurture Of-Themselves Outer Radiance Peace Practice Prevails Primal Resonate Return Home RIVER MASTER Root Ruan Ji Rule safe from Harm Self-Cultivation Simplicity So-of-Itself Soft and Gentle Su Dongpo Tao of Heaven-and-Nature Tao Te Ching Tao Yuanming Taoist Master Zhuang Taoist Ruler Terrain of Death thought Transformed translation True Knowledge True Tao True Taoist Uncarved Block Understand Valley Spirit Waley Water Whosoever Wisdom Woman Wordless Teaching Xi Kang Xie Lingyun Yin and Yang