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Tao Te Ching

Name: Tao Te Ching
Rating: 5 (21 reviews)
Author: Lao Tzu
ISBN: 9780486841908

Lao Tzu · 1989 · 116 pages

The pursuit of power, happiness, and life's meaning is as old as history itself, as the Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way and Its Virtue) attests. Dating from two and a half millennia ago, this timeless text consists of 81 brief chapters that form one of the world's most profound and influential spiritual traditions. The Tao played a significant role in the development of Buddhist thought, and this classic of meditative insight continues to inform modern readers with its emphasis on mindfulness. Centered on the principle of wu wei, or naturalness and simplicity, its teachings outline an attitude of spontaneity and noninterference that fosters individuality and self-awareness. This high-quality gift edition of the authoritative James Legge translation is an enduring companion on the mystical path to spiritual freedom.

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Michael Gervais
“The author's depth of teachings are complicated to decode and provide foundations for wisdom.”↗
Brian MacKenzie
“Once you get to a certain level, it’s like, wow.”↗
Rick Rubin
“Always what you need to read at that particular period of time. It’s a magic book, in that way, in that it always fits.”↗
Jason Nemer
“Oftentimes before meditation, I’ll just open Tao Te Ching randomly to a page and read about something and then just have that be what I steep in as I sit.”↗
Soman Chainani
“I remember reading it and being like okay, this makes no sense. But you just keep reading it again and again and slowly, I started to get the point of it.”↗
Jerzy Gregorek
“Helped me see the relationship between 'enough,' health, and wealth.”↗
Jason Ferruggia
“These are some good ones- plus Essentialism, Tao te Ching, Striking Thoughts, Meditations”↗
Joshua Waitzkin
“Hugely just unbelievable deep.”↗
Andrew Weil
“I find those verses which were the sole output of this philosopher to be remarkably right on.”↗
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