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Lao Tzu: TAO: The Tao Teh Ching, Translation/Commentary (Revised)
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Lao Tzu: TAO: The Tao Teh Ching, Translation/Commentary (Revised)

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Herrymon Maurer (1914-1998) has created a remarkable new translation of the Tao Teh Ching, inspired by a Quaker understanding of simplicity and religious experience and informed by his immersion in Chinese culture during a 1939-1941 sojourn in rural Sichuan province with his young family. The translation strives to preserve many of the Chinese metaphors as well as the directness of the sacred text and to find English phrases that render, at least to some extent, the beauty and economy of Lao Tzu’s original. Maurer’s masterful commentary helps clarify phrases that may baffle Westerners as he weaves together insights from Christianity, Judaism and Islam to situate the Tao in a context of universal humility and hope. A member of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author was acquainted with the destructive power of self, but had also discovered that the self can learn to live in relationship. First published in 1982, this revised edition of Maurer’s translation and expanded commentary on Lao Tzu’s enduring attempt to proclaim the Way of the Ways is published posthumously by family and friends who share the author’s hope that it may be useful to other seekers, as suggested by Chapter 4:

Tao is empty! Use it
And it isn’t used up.
Deep! It seems like
The forbear of the ten thousand things.
It blunts edges,

Unties tangles,

Harmonizes lights,

Unites all dusts.
Existent and deep!
I don’t know whose child it is.
It looks to be the source.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Proving Press
Date
27 December 2018
Pages
258
ISBN
9780990865100

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Herrymon Maurer (1914-1998) has created a remarkable new translation of the Tao Teh Ching, inspired by a Quaker understanding of simplicity and religious experience and informed by his immersion in Chinese culture during a 1939-1941 sojourn in rural Sichuan province with his young family. The translation strives to preserve many of the Chinese metaphors as well as the directness of the sacred text and to find English phrases that render, at least to some extent, the beauty and economy of Lao Tzu’s original. Maurer’s masterful commentary helps clarify phrases that may baffle Westerners as he weaves together insights from Christianity, Judaism and Islam to situate the Tao in a context of universal humility and hope. A member of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author was acquainted with the destructive power of self, but had also discovered that the self can learn to live in relationship. First published in 1982, this revised edition of Maurer’s translation and expanded commentary on Lao Tzu’s enduring attempt to proclaim the Way of the Ways is published posthumously by family and friends who share the author’s hope that it may be useful to other seekers, as suggested by Chapter 4:

Tao is empty! Use it
And it isn’t used up.
Deep! It seems like
The forbear of the ten thousand things.
It blunts edges,

Unties tangles,

Harmonizes lights,

Unites all dusts.
Existent and deep!
I don’t know whose child it is.
It looks to be the source.

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Proving Press
Date
27 December 2018
Pages
258
ISBN
9780990865100