The Second Book of the Tao

Release on by Stephen Mitchell
The Second Book of the Tao

Author: Stephen Mitchell

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9781101015995

Category: Religion

Page: 224

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Enhanced by Stephen Mitchell’s illuminating commentary, the next volume of the classic manual on the art of living The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal success of his own version of the Tao Te Ching, renowned scholar and translator Stephen Mitchell has composed the innovative The Second Book of the Tao. Drawn from the work of Lao-tzu’s disciple Chuang-tzu and Confucius’s grandson Tzussu, The Second Book of the Tao offers Western readers a path into reality that has nothing to do with Taoism or Buddhism or old or new alone, but everything to do with truth. Mitchell has selected the freshest, clearest teachings from these two great students of the Tao and adapted them into versions that reveal the poetry, depth, and humor of the original texts with a thrilling new power. Alongside each adaptation, Mitchell includes his own commentary, at once explicating and complementing the text. This book is a twenty-first-century form of ancient wisdom, bringing a new, homemade sequel to the Tao Te Ching into the modern world. Mitchell’s renditions are radiantly lucid; they dig out the vision that’s hiding beneath the words; they grab the text by the scruff of the neck—by its heart, really—and let its essential meanings fall out. The book introduces us to a cast of vivid characters, most of them humble artisans or servants, who show us what it means to be in harmony with the way things are. Its wisdom provides a psychological and moral acuity as deep as the Tao Te Ching itself. The Second Book of the Tao is a gift to contemporary readers, granting us access to our own fundamental wisdom. Mitchell’s meditations and risky reimagining of the original texts are brilliant and liberating, not least because they keep catching us off-guard, opening up the heavens where before we saw a roof. He makes the ancient teachings at once modern, relevant, and timeless. Listen to a special podcast with Stephen Mitchell:
Religion
The Second Book of the Tao
Language: en
Pages: 224

The Second Book of the Tao

Authors: Stephen Mitchell
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-19 - Publisher: Penguin

Enhanced by Stephen Mitchell’s illuminating commentary, the next volume of the classic manual on the art of living The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal
The Sacred Books of China, The Texts of Tăoism
Language: en
Pages: 348

The Sacred Books of China, The Texts of Tăoism

Authors: Stephen Mitchell
Categories: Philosophy, Chinese
Type: BOOK - Published: 1891 - Publisher:

Books about The Sacred Books of China, The Texts of Tăoism
The Texts of Taoism: Part I
Language: en
Pages:

The Texts of Taoism: Part I

Authors: Unknown
Categories: Philosophy, Chinese
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Library of Alexandria

Books about The Texts of Taoism: Part I
The Sacred Books of China
Language: en
Pages: 436

The Sacred Books of China

Authors: Unknown
Categories: Taoism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1891 - Publisher:

Books about The Sacred Books of China
Tao Te Ching
Language: en
Pages: 144

Tao Te Ching

Authors: Stephen Mitchell, Lao Tzu
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-13 - Publisher: Harper Collins

The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell 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