Stephen Mitchells bestselling version has been widely acclaimed as a gift. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao?Īnd when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. Lao-tzus Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art. He considers those who point out his fault No greater misfortune than having an enemy. No greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself,
When you realize there is nothing lacking, If you don’t understand this, you will get lost, What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? When the clouds pass, the sun shines through.Ī good scientist has freed himself of concepts She is present, and can welcome all things. Till your mud settles and the water is clear? When you are content to be simply yourself, The author was most definitely an enlightened individual who had tapped into the deeper workings of our world. It’s one of those books that you love, not because it teaches you anything new, but because it articulates that which you know to be true from experience, as all good books do. I’ve heard people say that the book is very much like a Rorschach test, in the sense that it reflects the reader, and his or her own state of mind, more than anything else. It’s a short volume, but dense with wisdom and universal truths. Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic.
Mitchell’s Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a modern Zen classic, and his translations of Rilke and of the Book of Job have already been called definitive for our time. I read the book during a time in my life when the content resonated very deeply with me. Now the Tao Te ching has been rendered into English by the eminent scholar and traslator Stephen Mitchell. In fact, he gave me a copy of it as a gift (the Stephen Mitchell translation, to be exact). I first learned of the Tao Te Ching in 2010 after a strong recommendation from long-time friend.
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