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Title: Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell ISBN: 0-06-081245-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 October, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (110 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Tao will never leave you.
Comment: A long time ago I sat down and tried to determine what I considered to be the single most important book that I had ever read. The Tao te Ching was my choice. One of the oldest books of the human race, it is also perhaps the closest to perfection. To meditate on the meaning of the 81 chapters to open your mind. You make a mind shift by contemplating what the Tao is not. I can see where Zen owes a debt to this book, as it is almost one long koan designed to free the mind and transcend the ego.
I've heard criticisms that the Tao te Ching was written as a manual for Emperors on how to rule and therefor has no relevence to modern man. Actually, if you live your life according to Kant's catagorical imperative (live as if your every action or decision might become universal law), then this is the perfect guide. To be one with the Tao is to be one with the Cosmos. A selfish or imbalanced act is impossible. This applies to an Emperor, a wandering holy man, a householder, or to you.
Mr. Mitchelll's translation is the best that I've found. You sense that he has a true intuitive understanding of the text. There are "scholarly" translations that focus so much on detail that they totally miss the meaning. I have both the pocket edition, as well as, the audio cassettes, and I most highly recommend both.
Rating: 2
Summary: new age taoism
Comment: As a Taoist I am offended when I read people saying that it's irrelevant whether Mitchell's interpolation is a good "translation" of the Tao Te Ching, irrelevant whether this is a good introduction to Taoism -- what matters to these people, and nothing else, is whether this book "moved" them.
Imagine you're a devout Christian, and someone has read a particularly beautiful, but misleading and inaccurate, translation of the Bible. Suppose you complain that Christ's message has been garbled and distorted by the "translation" -- by someone who knows no Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek -- and this person replies: "It's pretty irrelevant to me whether this is a 'proper translation' of the Bible. If a piece of art, writing or performance touches you to the core of your being then all criticism is really obsolete," etc.
Okay, quick quiz: Who of you think it would be right for someone to misinterpret the Bible into having Jehova or Christ saying things They didn't say, and then defend that interpretation because it is relevant to them? Well, you might say, it's their right to see the Bible that way, but it's certainly not Judaism or Christianity, now is it?
Just as Mitchell's so-called "translation" is _not_ Taoism. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. Of course New Agers simply don't care; if it makes them happy, "moves" them, and reifies beliefs they already have, who cares about us cynics complaining about the inaccuracies of the text itself? Just accuse us of being obsessed with textual criticism, languages, and with our petty, close-minded insistence on understanding Taoism and not twisting the Tao Te Ching for its easier but uninsightful digestion by Westerners with little or no concern about actually expanding their understanding of othr belief systems.
Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT INTERPRETATION
Comment: I THINK THIS IS A GREAT INTERPRETATION OF "THE WAY" AND "TAO." IT'S SIMPLE...DIRECT....AND NOT "I'M GOING TO USE BIG WORDS TO MAKE YOU THINK I'M SMART". JUST PLAIN, SIMPLE, DIRECT ENGLISH TRANSLATION. THIS BOOK WILL TEACH YOU A LOT ABOUT WISDOM, PSYCHOLOGY, AND OBSERVANCES IN EVERYTHING FROM WORK, TO RELIGION, AND ESPECIALLY EVERYDAY LIFE! IT'S ALMOST LIKE IT CONNECTS YOU WITH YOUR FIRST INSTINCTS ON THINGS. I RECCOMMEND THAT YOU BUY THIS.
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Title: Bhagavad Gita : A New Translation by Stephen Mitchell ISBN: 0609810340 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Essence of Wisdom by Stephen Mitchell ISBN: 0767903064 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 19 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff, Ernest H. Shepard ISBN: 0140067477 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1983 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Gospel According to Jesus by Stephen Mitchell ISBN: 0060923210 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 31 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Enlightened Heart by Stephen Mitchell ISBN: 006092053X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 29 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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