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Tao Te Ching (Penguin Classics)
by Lao Tzu
from Penguin Classics

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Tao Te Ching - Peaceful Reading
  The Tao Te Ching is one of the most influential books of Taoism. This Penguin Classics version is an excellently translated version of the timeless masterpiece. Translated by D.C. Lau, this version is a very smooth and easy read. The footnotes explain confusing passages with clarity and allow you to get a better undertanding of the intented meaning of the books within the Tao Te Ching. I fully recommend this book for those who want to get more in touch with the Tao and the flow of the universe!

• Ancient Wisdom For Ancient Times
  Although Tao Te Ching contains a decent amount of insightful knowledge, it is not the best I have seen and would recommend only for those who's spiritual journey has led them here directly.

• ANCIENT WISDOM FOR CONTEMPORARY PEOPLE
  Stepping Off the Edge: Learning & Living Spiritual Practice
  Traditionally ascribed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius, the work is more probably an anthology of wise saying compiled in about the fourth century, "says the rear cover of this book. Whoever did it, the Tao Te Ching is wonderful. I have this version.

• Kick the New Age right out of your DDJ...
  I love this translation. Not so much for the translation but for the introduction in the original edition. Lau was really the first critic of the traditional story of Laozi and the Dao De Jing to bring it to the English masses. The DDJ is a composite work, not the work of one author, as romantic as the story of Laozi may be. It was the work of many and thus the reason for some of its inconsistencies. Sure the work can be made to fit into one's particular scheme (the Dao obviously has plenty of flexibility... more info

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