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Tao Te Ching on YT
- Thread starter Yerda
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dfnj
Well-Known Member
I love Taoism! Not all Tao-Te-Ching translations are the same. I found this translation to be my favorite:
https://www.amazon.com/Tao-Te-Ching...5?keywords=tao+te+ching&qid=1584458952&sr=8-5
I can't tell if the version in your video is the same one.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
That would be great to listen to for all those long hours on the road. :0)
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
There is also a pod cast I have been listening to on my phone "Taoism Level 1: a path to a Higher Dimension"
That is not to bad
That is not to bad
dybmh
דניאל יוסף בן מאיר הירש
do you have any english translation recommendations?
Yerda
Veteran Member
Aye. It's quite soothing and there's something lyrical about the text.
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Not really, the one I have that i like best I got in Beijing about 14 years ago, but I cannot remember the translator, If I can find it I will post it. If memory servers it had no commentary and it was a direct translation to english by a Chinese speaking author.
My wife tells me they're all bad, but then she can read simplified and traditional Chinese characters.
I am looking for another translation
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Samantha Rinne
Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
I read a side by side comparison of a beautifully painted but very modern translation (I think it was Ursula Le Guin), and the plain black book by John C.H. Wu, and wound up choosing the latter. It can be hard to understand in places, but the other one sugarcoated along of passages about how governments can misrule, in favor of vague fluffy phrases.
My first version of the Tao te Ching was by Stephen Mitchell. This one is very strange because Stephen Mitchell is Christian or Jewish, and it shows in some of the annotations. All the same, I found this one easily the most understandable. I should see if I still have it...