Wise men dont need to prove their point men who need to prove their point arent wise. All this in a little book you can carry around and read wherever you go. True words arent eloquent eloquent words arent true. I don't think it's a coincidence that he wrote books of Taoist thought - which didn't sell - before he created this version, or that he doesn't speak any Chinese. He left out large chunks of the original and added his own texts. This book includes not only the translation, but also a short history of Daoism/Taoism and an excellent commentary explaining each verse. Stephen Mitchell's attempt at the Tao Te Ching may be pleasant, but it's not the Tao Te Ching. The victory will go to the one that knows how to yield. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. We work with being, but non-being is what we use. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside Here is a taste of the translator's work: Something you can not do with a computer printout. Published in a small book you can carry around in your pocket. Everything Is Connected: Philosophy: Taoism/Daoism: Review: Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Stephen MitchellĪ particularly beautiful translation of the Tao Te Ching.
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