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The Tao te Ching is the second most translated and published book in the world, right behind the Holy Bible. With so many choices available, why add to the number? Within weeks after first undergoing a near-death, out-of-body experience in the summer of 1992, Roger Charles Warren suffered a head injury which released him from work for a full year. While on sabbatical recovering, he began to study the Tao te Ching. He collected every translation he could find. Not satisfied with the vast differences in each one, Roger began studying Chinese characters and their definitions, and began making notes, comparing the many different commentaries and lessons in addition to the many English and Chinese versions. Within a year, by Spring 1993, while living as a lay minister at the Holy Cross Abbey in Cañon City, Colorado, Rev. Warren produced a version of the Tao te Ching designed to return to the simple, basic truth that is this book. With this translation, the student can arrive at their own interpretation, free from editorial comments and distracting footnotes. The reader is free to contemplate, meditate, and receive inspiration from the beauty of the simple text itself. Plain but beautiful. Unadorned yet true. May you find peace and grace as you read the pages within.
"Ursula K. Le Guin, a student of the Tao Te Ching for more than fifty years, offers her own thoughtful rendering of the Taoist scripture. She has consulted the literal translations and worked with the scholar J. P. Seaton to develop a version that lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way to modern people, while remaining faithful to the original Chinese. This rendition reveals the Tao Te Ching's immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humor, illustrating better than ever before why it has been so loved for more than 2,500 years. Included are Le Guin's own personal commentary and notes along with two audio CDs of the text read by the author, with original music composed and performed by Todd Barton."--Publisher's website.
'Of ways you may speak, but not the Perennial Way; By names you may name, but not the Perennial Name.' The best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular, the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and Life-Force is a work that defies definition. It encapsulates the main tenets of Daoism, and upholds a way of being as well as a philosophy and a religion. The dominant image is of the Way, the mysterious path through the whole cosmos modelled on the great Silver River or Milky Way that traverses the heavens. A life-giving stream, the Way gives rise to all things and holds them in her motherly embrace. It enables the individual, and society as a whole, to harmonize the disparate demands of daily life and achieve a more profound level of understanding. This new translation draws on the latest archaeological finds and brings out the word play and poetry of the original. Simple commentary accompanies the text, and the introduction provides further historical and interpretative context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Free renderings of selections from the works of Chuang-tzŭ, taken from various translations.
First published in 1934. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Tê Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literature.
In this vivid, contemporary translation, Victor Mair captures the quintessential life and spirit of Chuang Tzu while remaining faithful to the original text.
Previously published: Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2010.
Presents a translation and commentary to the oldest known extant Taoist text, Inward Training (Nei-yeh), which is composed of short poetic verses devoted to the practice of breath meditation and its resultant insights about human nature and the cosmos. Roth argues that Inward Training is the basis of early Taoism, and suggests that there may be more continuity between early philosophical Taoism and later Taoist religion than scholars have thought.
The most famous and influential Taoist text, the Tao-te Ching is traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, supposedly a contemporary of Confucius (551-471 B.C).