A 2,500 year-old antidote to our go-getting materialist culture, Master Lao Tzu's classic work espouses a 'Tao' or 'Way' of effortless existence - a non-striving 'going with the flow'. Poetic, Humorous, Wise, and at times frustratingly enigmatic, the 'Tao Te Jing' is required reading for any student of mysticism and philosophy.
A 2,500 year-old antidote to our go-getting materialist culture, Master Lao Tzu's classic work espouses a 'Tao' or 'Way' of effortless existence - a non-striving 'going with the flow'. Poetic, Humorous, Wise, and at times frustratingly enigmatic, the 'Tao Te Jing' is required reading for any student of mysticism and philosophy.
This classic work of Chinese mysticism was written over 2500 years ago. It author was Li Er, an enlightened sage and scholar known to the world as Lao Tzu (Venerable Master), who espoused a philosophy of the Way, or 'Tao': a method of non-striving existence, an effortless 'going with the flow'. Poetic, Humorous, Wise, Deep-hearted, and at times frustratingly enigmatic, the 'Tao Te Jing' is required reading for any student of mysticism and philosophy. It is also the perfect antidote to our contemporary materialist culture of acquisition and self-aggrandisement.
Lao-tzu (ca. 600 BCE) was a Chinese sage who Confucius called "a dragon among men." He served as Keeper of the Royal Archives and authored of one of the world's most cherished spiritual and poetic texts, the Tao Te Ching.
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