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
2020-04-28T00:00:00.000Z
2020-04-28T00:00:00.000Z
First Published in 600
Goodreads rating
4.26
ISBN
9780872207011
Recommendations
14
Recommendations
2009-06-21T00:00:00.000Z
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
2021-02-20T12:50:02.000Z
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) – source2020-07-15T02:19:55.000Z
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 – source2015-05-12T15:27:33.000Z
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