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Title: Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu, Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English, Jacob Needleman ISBN: 0-944993-24-9 Publisher: Audio Literature Pub. Date: April, 1990 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (37 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Undefinable Tao Is a Wonderful Thing
Comment: (4.25 Stars)
Here are 2 statements that sum up the difficulty in writing a review of the Tao Te Ching:
The Tao is forever undefined -
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao -
This book is 81 chapters of Lao Tsu's teachings. It's an easy read. I read it in about an hour and I'm one of the slowest readers to ever read.
Lao Tsu's teachings are simple and complex - like the back of the jacket says - "...accept what is in front of you without wanting the situation to be other than it is. Study the natural order of things and work with it rather than against it..." - simple and complex.
This specific edition being the 25th anniversary edition has very pretty and captivating black and white photos that accompany each of the 81 chapters.
It's a good book - give Lao Tsu an hour of your time. Have a cup of tea with him.
Rating: 4
Summary: ...Wow....
Comment: I picked up this book two years ago, when I was a sophmore in High School...I felt so alone, because all my friends had turned thier backs on me, calling me a monster who wanted to blow them all away in the school yard. I spent a long time depressed, until the day my family decided to move to a different school district.
While cleaning out my Father's bookshelves, we found an old copy of this book from the 1970's. I flipped through it, and found the one poem in here that has comforted me the most by disaster...
"What do you mean by "Accept misfortune as the human condition"?
Misfortune comes from having a body.
Without a body, how could there be misfortune?"
I asked him if I could keep it, and he allowed it. I am a much better person now, no longer so mopey as I once was.
This book is awesome. The simple pictures seem to provide scenery in your mind for when you think about these poems. The caligraphy is beautiful...and out of the many other translations of the Tao Te Ching I've seen, the old book from my father's college days is the one I keep with me every day.
Rating: 5
Summary: Transforming
Comment: I found this book one summer in the early 1970s in a little bookstore in a mall, shortly after it was published. I stood there for half-an-hour or so puzzling over the text and admiring the calligraphy and the photography, then, realizing it was getting late, set it back on the shelf and left.
As I emerged from the mall, I noticed a tree growing in the parking lot that the mall developers had spared. It was a maple, and I still retain an almost photographic image of it in my mind, so vivid was the impression it made on me. I was sure I'd seen this tree before, but now it was as if I was "really" seeing it. Don't ask me what that means, I don't even know myself. But I had a pretty good idea why I was suddenly seeing it in that heightened way.
I turned around, went back into the mall and bought the book.
Since then, I've read and heard comments by many other people about the transforming effect this particular book had on them. There are people who own three and four copies of it -- one for the house, one for the office, one for the car. Some people carry it from room to room just to have it near them. There are people who seem to feel almost embarrassed about their attachment to it, as if it were something to feel guilty about.
If I had to guess why this particular edition has had such a magical effect on so many readers, I would say it is the combination of the mysterious yet elevating text, the calligraphy by Gia-fu Feng, the photographs by Jane English, and the spacious art-book layout. It is a potent combination. I hope you will buy this book and then find a tree of your own to look at.
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Title: Confucius: The Analects by Confucius, D. C. Lau ISBN: 0140443487 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff, Ernest H. Shepard ISBN: 0140067477 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1983 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters by Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English, chuang tsu ISBN: 1569372829 Publisher: Amber Lotus Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin, Lao Tzu ISBN: 1570623953 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell ISBN: 0060812451 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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