Klaus, Hilmar (2008). Das Tao der Weisheit. Laozi-Daodejing (in German and English). Aachen: Mainz. 140 p. bibliogr., 548 p. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript ( link) Stephen Mitchell was born to a Jewish family, educated at Amherst College, [2] the University of Paris, [2] and Yale University, [2] and "de-educated" through intensive Zen practice. [3] He studied for four and a half years with Zen master Seungsahn and for two and a half years with Robert Baker Aitken, Rōshi.

Here are some tantalizing excerpts from the newest computer-assisted translation of Lao Tzu's famous Waley, Arthur, ed. (1958). The Way and its Power: A study of the Tao tê ching and its place in Chinese thought. New York: Grove. ISBN 0802150853. OCLC 1151668016. Well, yes, if hat is defined as the treasury of recorded wisdom that is our common birthright. In that treasury, there is nothing more precious than the wisdom of the ancient Chinese. The Tao Te Ching is a foundational text in both philosophical and religious forms of Taoism, alongside the Zhuangzi. It has also had a strong influence on other schools of philosophy and religion throughout Chinese history, including Legalism, Confucianism, and particularly Chinese Buddhism, whose interpretations largely used Taoist terminology upon its original introduction to the country. Many artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and gardeners, have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. Its influence has spread widely within the globe's artistic and academic spheres. It is one of the most translated texts in world literature. [10] Title [ edit ]Zandbergen, Robbert (2022). "The Ludibrium of Living Well". Monumenta Serica. 70 (2): 367–388. doi: 10.1080/02549948.2022.2131802. S2CID 254151927. The translations and Mitchell’s commentaries are poetic, mystical, imaginative, and deeply spiritual.

Compiled and adapted from the Chuang-tzu and the Chung Yung, with commentaries The Penguin Press 2009 A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around, by Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell, HarperOne, 2017, ISBN 0062651609The 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. All things may be one with me, but am I one with them? That’s the issue. And once I am one, what then? Even the one is excessive for anyone who wants to be meticulous. Look where it leads, after all—to two, to three, to infinity, to an infinity of infinities and beyond: always the unattainable, unassuageable beyond. Mitchell is married to Byron Katie, founder and promoter of the self-inquiry method 'The Work.' [12] Books [ edit ] Poetry [ edit ] With great poetry, the freest translation is sometimes the most faithful. “We must try its effect as an English poem,” Dr. Johnson said; “that is the way to judge of the merit of a translation.” I have often been fairly literal –or as literal as one can be with such a subtle, kaleidoscopic book as the Tao Te Ching. But I have also paraphrased, expanded, contracted, interpreted, worked with the text, played with it, until it became embodied in a language that felt genuine to me. If I haven’t always translated Lao-tzu’s words, my intention has always been to translate his mind.