Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey

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Mendelsohn, Daniel (October 8, 2013). "What Do You Look for in Modern Translation?". The New York Times. Kohn, Livia; Michael LaFargue (1998), "Editors' Introduction", Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp.1–22, ISBN 978-0-7914-3600-4 . The Tao Te Ching by Laozi: ancient wisdom for modern times". the Guardian. 27 December 2013 . Retrieved 28 January 2022.

This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) This book trivializes ancient philosophy and religion by forcing them into the mould of the worldview of the world's most entitled population, middle aged white Americans. Mitchell comforts the comfortable in a book that has no teeth, one that almost any privileged American could use to discover that without changing a thing, it turns out that they are already enlightened. Conversation: Stephen Mitchell, Author of the New Translation of Homer's 'The Iliad' ". NPR: National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 2011-11-11 . Retrieved 2013-10-22. Genesis: A New Translation of the Classic Biblical Stories, Harper Collins, 1996, ISBN 0-06-092856-5 Stephen Mitchell (born 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is a poet, translator, scholar, and anthologist. He is best known for his translations and adaptions of works including the Tao Te Ching, the Epic of Gilgamesh, works of Rainer Maria Rilke, and Christian texts. [1] Education [ edit ]Chuang-tzu has been called a mystical anarchist, and it’s true that his words sometimes have a contrarian flavor that seems to put them at odds with Lao-tzu’s concern for enlightened government. Given the least semblance of control, Chuang-tzu offers a whole world of irreverence and subversion. But if you look more closely, you’ll see that he is neither a mystic nor an anarchist. He’s simply someone who doesn’t linger in any mental construct about reality, someone who lives as effortless action and peace of heart, because he has freed himself from his own beliefs. What he subverts is conventional thinking, with its hierarchies of judgment, its fors and againsts, betters and worses, insides and outsides, and its delusion that life is random, unfair, and somehow not good enough. Learn how to govern your own mind, Chuang-tzu says, and the universe will govern itself. In this he is in wholehearted agreement with Lao-tzu and with the meticulous Tzu-ssu, for whom attention to the innermost self is the direct path to a just society. All things may be one with me, but am I one with them? That’s the issue. And once I am one, what then? Even the one is excessive for anyone who wants to be meticulous. Look where it leads, after all—to two, to three, to infinity, to an infinity of infinities and beyond: always the unattainable, unassuageable beyond. Tao-te-Ching". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 29 July 2020. Victor H. Mair thought that Taoists in the early history of the faith had positive "cultural relations" with Hindu groups and that the Tao Te Ching was written in reaction to Indian philosophy and that the author(s) viewed Brahman as being the same as Tao. [22] Historicity of the purported author [ edit ] Real Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching (with James A. Autry), Riverhead Books, 1998, ISBN 1-57322-089-2

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, translated by Mitchell, Stephen, New York: HarperCollins, 1988, ISBN 978-0-06-180739-8 . In the Beginning Was the Word", 1996 interview at Psychology Today about his translation of Genesis Klaus, Hilmar (2009). The Tao of Wisdom. Laozi-Daodejing (in Chinese, English, and German). Aachen: Mainz. 140 p. bibl., 600p. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link) When we exhaust our minds by clinging to a particular side of reality without realizing the underlying oneness, this is called “three in the morning.” What does that mean? Generations of scholars have debated the historicity of Laozi and the dating of the Tao Te Ching. Linguistic studies of the text's vocabulary and rhyme scheme point to a date of composition after the Shijing yet before the Zhuangzi. Legends claim variously that Laozi was "born old" and that he lived for 996 years, with twelve previous incarnations starting around the time of the Three Sovereigns before the thirteenth as Laozi. Some scholars have expressed doubts over Laozi's historical existence. [27]

One of the qualities I most treasure in Chuang-tzu is his sense of the spontaneous, the uncapturable. This makes it easy to follow in his footsteps. Since there are no footsteps, all you can follow is what he himself followed: the Tao. He had confidence that in being true to his own insight he was being true to his teacher Lao-tzu. There was nothing to say and no way to say it, yet it had to be said. As a Zen poet-descendant of his wrote more than a thousand years later, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Random House 1982, ISBN 0-394-52434-9, Vintage, 1989, ISBN 0-679-72201-7 What could be more useless than a flute with no holes? Yet, if you understand, you put it to your lips and the ancient clear music happens by itself. Had Chuang-tzu believed that there was anything to live up to he would have been too intimidated even to try. There was nothing to live up to. There was only a passion for the genuine, a fascination with words, and a constant awareness that the ancient Masters are alive and well in the mind that doesn’t know a thing. Boltz, William (1993), " Lao tzu Tao-te-ching", in Loewe, Michael (ed.), Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp.269–92, ISBN 1-55729-043-1 . Le Guin, Ursula K., ed. (1998), Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of Way, Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, ISBN 978-1-61180-724-0 .