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Tao Te Ching (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Tao Te Ching (Hardcover, New Ed)
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List price R475
Loot Price R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
You Save R79 (17%)
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This age-old Taoist text appears here with a new selection of
ancient Chinese paintings alongside Mitchell's definitive
translation. For anyone who has never read the Tao Te Ching before,
this is a superb introduction, with the simplicity of the paintings
masking their profundity, and mirroring the reader's response to
the text. 'Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water/
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible nothing can surpass it'
wrote Tzu, 500 years before the birth of Christ. The book is full
of such paradoxes, designed to enable the reader to see the world
from a different perspective, and to let go of daily cares and
worries. While not everyone would agree with its dualist
undertones, there ar plenty of wise words here. (Kirkus UK)
'Do you want to improve the world? I don't think it can be done.
The world is sacred. It can't be improved. If you tamper with it,
you'll ruin it. If you treat it like an object, you'll lose it.'
Stephen Mitchell's translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book
of the Way) has sold over half a million copies worldwide. In this
stunningly beautiful edition of the fundamental modern Taoist
philosophy text, Mitchell's words are set against ancient Chinese
paintings selected by Asian art expert, Dr Stephen Little.
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