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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  naidascrochet | Nov 11, 2009 |  I read this more than 10 years ago for a comparative religion class and keep coming back to it. I can't really comment on the translation since I don't know Chinese but certainly in this form it contains many pithy truths. (  ) andersonden | Sep 6, 2009 | The Tao Te Ching was my favorite of all the Eastern philosophies I studied in undergrad. It's pretty common sense and more readily applicable to modern life than the others. (  ) gaialover2 | Jul 30, 2009 | Adiss and Lombardo do the best translation I've found of one of the greatest books ever written. ( ) phrontist | Jul 10, 2009 | If I were told I could only keep one book, it would be this one. Unfailingly it puts my feet back on the ground when I need it. ( ) murunbuchstansangur | Jun 11, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 014044131X, Paperback)Tao Te Ching, also commonly known as Lao Tzu, is perhaps the most important of Chinese classical texts, with an unparalleled influence on Chinese thought. This bilingual edition consists of two parts. The English text in Part One is a reprint of the earlier translation of the so-called Wang Pi text, first published by Penguin Books in 1963. Part Two is the fresh translation of a text which is a conflation of two manuscripts of the Lao Tzu, dating at the latest from the early Western Han and discovered at Ma Wang Tui in December 1973. The result is a text with a fuller use of particles, free from the scribal errors and editorial tampering of subsequent ages. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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The Tao Te Ching consists of 81 short poems, which you can read here. It was written about 2,500 years ago by Lao Tzu and is the basis for the philosophical school of Taoism.
Most of the themes in the Tao Te Ching are about living life simply and doing away with material things.
'He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.'
I enjoyed reading the Tao Te Ching and am glad I ventured off and read something different. (