The Tao Te Ching is a very beautiful learning and meditation book. It is like a zen koan: either you dismiss it as nonsense, or you have to dig in to understand it. It immediately takes you out of that intellectual confinement of getting stuck with ideas, with what you think you know.
(Chungliang Al Huang)
Tao Te Ching
Each translation/adaptation highlights different nuances of this
sophisticated text:
The Essential Tao translated by Thomas Cleary
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching by Timothy Freke
The New Lao Tzu
translated by Ray Grigg
The Little Book of Tao
Te Ching translated by John R Mabry
The Tai Chi Journey by John Lash
The Tao of Being by Ray Grigg
The Tao
Speaks: Lao Tzu's Whispers of Wisdom by Chih Chung Tsai
Tao Te Ching translated by Ralph Alan Dale
Tao Te Ching translated by Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English
Tao Te Ching translated by Man-Ho Kwok & Martin Palmer
Tao Te Ching translated by
D C Lau
Tao Te Ching translated by
Ursula K Le Guin
Tao Te Ching translated by
Stephen Mitchell
Tao Te Ching translated by
Arthur Whaley
Tao Te Ching translated by Richard Wilhelm
Tao Te Ching translated by John C H Wu
The
Tao Te Ching and The Christian Way translated by Joseph Petulla
The Texts of Taoism Vol 1 & 2 translated by James Legge
Reading further
There are many more translations than the
ones listed here. Some are available for free
on-line.
The Tao Te Ching is a lucid masterpiece on the art of living.
(Doug Marsh)
The Way of Chuang Tzu has also been adapted and translated in a
similar fashion to Tao Te Ching and there is much merit to be found
in reading the different versions.
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