Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket Library edition. Written more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching, or -The Classic of the Way and Its Virtue, - is one of the true classics of the world of spiritual literature. Traditionally attributed to the legendary -Old Master, - Lao ...
Publish Date
2020
April 28
First Published in 600
Goodreads rating
4.29
ISBN
9780399512988
Recommendations
13
Recommendations
Jun 21, 2009
My personal religious philosophy, stressing the rightness of what is, if only we can accept it. Most people who know me have heard me quote from this book. -Seeing as how nothing is outside the vast, wide-meshed net of heaven, who is there to say just how it is cast? – sourceI find those verses which were the sole output of this philosopher to be remarkably right on. – source
Always what you need to read at that particular period of time. It’s a magic book, in that way, in that it always fits. – source
Feb 20, 2021
Meticulous reading and re-reading of key philosophy books
Some:
Upanishads
World as Will and Representation
Hero With a Thousand Faces
Freedom from the Known
Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying
No death, No Fear
Living Life Backwards
Tao Te Ching
Metaphysics (Aristotle) – sourceJul 15, 2020
A few books that have influenced me -
1. Personal Finance: Rich Dad, Poor Dad
2. Trading: Trading in the Zone
3. Mindfulness: The Power of Now
4. Philosophy: Letters from a Stoic, Tao Te Ching
5. Read Anytime: A Book of Simple Living – sourceMay 12, 2015
These are some good ones- plus Essentialism, Tao te Ching, Striking Thoughts, Meditations – sourceThe author's depth of teachings are complicated to decode and provide foundations for wisdom. – source
I remember reading it and being like okay, this makes no sense. But you just keep reading it again and again and slowly, I started to get the point of it. – source
Inspired my study of softness and receptivity as a counterpoint to my mad passions. – source
Oftentimes before meditation, I’ll just open Tao Te Ching randomly to a page and read about something and then just have that be what I steep in as I sit. – source