Summary
One of the treasures of world literature, the profound and enigmatic Tao Te Ching has mesmerized readers for over two millennia. Written during the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy, and composed partly in prose and partly in verse, the Tao Te Ching is the most terse and economical of the world’s great religious texts. In a series of short, profound chapters it elucidates the idea of the Tao, or the Way, and of Te - Virtue, or Power - ideas that in their ethical, practical and spiritual dimens…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857151589 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857151585 |
| Author: | Lao Tze |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 120mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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The Tao Te Ching is a 2,400-year-old reminder that today, as then, every one of us has a choice to practise self-awareness and exercise our own power in and over the world. That might come as more of a nasty wakeup call than a comfort to some of us. As [David Foster] Wallace said: “It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.” As hard as it is, for the moments we read it, the Tao Te Ching makes it seem at least possible. – Damien Walter * Guardian *
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