Le Guin's intuitive and personal ingenuity. This short book of around 5,000 Chinese characters is divided into 81. There is something startlingly fresh and creatively alive here, brought forth by Ms. Tao and Te translate loosely as way and virtue (more on these concepts later) thus the book became known as the Scripture of the Way of Virtue, the Tao Te Ching. Its called the Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing or Daode Jing) - The Way and Its Power, and is also known as the Lao-tzu. Le Guin's new version is a special treasure–a delight. 'Among the many translations of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. The Tao Te Ching is a book of Chinese philosophical. – Parabola '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.' Lao Tzu: Tao te ching: a book about the way and the power of the way/a new English version by. Read Tao Te Ching: The Book of the Way and Its Power by John R. undeniably refreshing, capturing a language that is casual and clear, reflective and pointed, full of the wise humor of the Way.' –Maria Popova, The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) 'Reading translations is like taking a shared walk down a familiar trail where we discover rocks and water that we somehow missed before. 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.' – Lion's Roar 'The type of work which the great Polish poet and Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska meant when she spoke of 'that rare miracle when a translation stops being a translation and becomes. The most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is a guide to cultivating a life of peace, serenity. '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.'

Tao te ching the book of the way