In what may be the most faithful translation of the Tao Te Ching , the translators have captured the terse, enigmatic beauty of the original masterpiece without embellishing it with personal interpretation or bogging it down with explanatory notes. By...
Lao Tzu was the father of Taoism. In his Tao Te Ching , Lao Tzu outlined the basic concept of Tao. Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu were Lao Tzuâs most important followers who expounded and expanded the basic principles set forth by Lao Tzu. Toge...
Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. A profound mystical insight into...
'The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and Unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.' So begins one of the most important spiritual books on the planet. The Tao Te Ching, the second most translated...
Tao (the Way) is one of the most profound and influential of the world's spiritual traditions, and the Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way and Its Virtue) has left its imprint on Far Eastern philosophy, art, and literature for over two thousand years....
"No one has done better in conveying Lao Tsu's simple and laconic style of writing, so as to produce an English version almost as suggestive of the many meanings intended." âAlan Watts