Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

Stephen Mitchell

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A New English Version

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Publisher:: Harper Perennial, 09/2006
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9780061142666
Item number:: 5041949
Volume:: 144 Pages
Copyright-Jahr:: 2006
Weight:: 113 g
Format:: 203 x 136 mm
Thickness:: 10 mm
Release date:: 1.9.2006
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Short description

A new version of the classic "Book of the Way" provides a manual on the art of living, offering eighty concise chapters that offer wisdom and advice on how to achieve balance, perspective, and serenity in every aspect of one's life.

Description

Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living, and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching looks at the basic predicament of being alive and gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit. This book is about wisdom in action. It teaches how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao (the basic principle of the universe) and applies equally to good government and sexual love; to child rearing, business, and ecology.

Blurb

The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell
"Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." -- Huston Smith, author of The Religions of Man
In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao--the basic principle of the universe.

Biography

Stephen Mitchell, Jahrgang 1943, wuchs in Brooklyn/New York auf. Er studierte Literaturwissenschaften und Philosophie, zunächst am Amherst College, dann in Paris und in Yale, und wurde ein sehr geschätzter Literaturübersetzer und erfolgreicher Autor. Eines Tages machte ihn sein Literaturagent auf Byron Katie aufmerksam. Als er ihr begegnete und mit ihrer Work in Berührung kam, wurde ihm klar, so sagt er, dass es sich hier um etwas wirklich Bedeutendes handelt.