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  • Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching

  • A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
  • Written by: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Narrated by: Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching

Written by: Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by: Ursula K. Le Guin
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Publisher's Summary

In this landmark modern-day rendition of the ancient Taoist classic, Ursula K. Le Guin presents Lao Tzu’s time-honored and astonishingly powerful philosophy like never before. Drawing on a lifetime of contemplation, she offers an unparalleled window into the text’s awe-inspiring, immediately relatable teachings and their inestimable value for our troubled world.

©1997 Ursula K. Le Guin (P)2009 Shambhala Publications

What the critics say

“Each day I open this book at random and receive a contemplative gift. These words are akin to water in the desert. (Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge)

“The type of work which the great Polish poet and Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska meant when she spoke of ‘that rare miracle when a translation stops being a translation and becomes...a second original.’...The whole of Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching is well worth savoring - as much for the ancient substance as for Le Guin’s stylistic splendor.” (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“A student of the Tao for several decades, Le Guin has created an English text that will speak to modern readers in a fresh and lively way, while conveying the humor, insight, and beauty of the original.” (Lion’s Roar magazine) 

“Among the many translations of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin’s new version is a special treasure - a delight. There is something startlingly fresh and creatively alive here, brought forth by Ms. Le Guin’s intuitive and personal ingenuity.” (Chuangliang Al Huang, founder of the Living Tao Foundation and coauthor (with Alan Watts) of Tao: The Watercourse Way

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honor in the heard

I think it over glorifies passivity, tells of ancient counterintuitive concepts that we now have statistical data for. One of the most prominent believe systems, very insightful if archaic

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Annoying ass music

If you’re anything like me, you’ll find the loud background music by some white guy named Todd very distracting. Awful to listen to.

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