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Tao Te Ching

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It's one of those books you have to read slowly, and take in the words, and let them marinate! Allow the words to transform into feeling by applying them to your own life.

When reading "Tao Teh Ching" I personally find a new message evry time. The most important lessons I got from the readings is learning when to be firm and when to yield and how to interpret Universal energies to direct my life. This book definately is must read for any person that has ever felt like the perverbial Salmon and not known why or how to get out of it. I recommend it to anyone that is in search of inner direction.

The Tao Teh Ching is one of the best books ever written. It can be spiritual, or it can be secular. It can be philisophical, or it can be practical and earthy. As a Taoist, I can tell you that this is one of the best translations available.

THIS BOOK FULFILLED MY EXPECTATIONS OF IT. I WAS SURPRISED TO NOTE THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN OUR OCCIDENTAL CONCEPT OF GOD AND THE CHINESE CONCEPT. SOMEHOW, GOD COMES ACROSS AS MORE THAN A BLOB IN THIS BOOK. ASIAN RELIGION USUALLY PORTRAYS GOD IN EXTREMELY IMPERSONAL TERMS AND YET FOR SOME REASON I WAS PLEASANTLY REASSURED BY THIS BOOK'S PORTRAYAL OF GOD. PERHAPS THE CHINESE JUST HAVE A WAY OF MAKING THE CONCEPT MORE PALATABLE TO THE WESTERN MIND.

Why read a version of the Tao Teh Ching translated by some American who thought Taoism was something "exotic" when you can have this one--written by an earthy man born and raised in Ningpo? As Wu once said of himself, "I was initiated early into the mysteries of paradox."