Tao Te Ching. Il libro della via e della virtù

I'm an unbeliever and have been since the first time I played hooky from Sunday services and the Eye in the Sky didn’t say boo. So it may seem strange that I’m reviewing the Tao Te Ching , the widely known and influential Taoist text, written by Lao-Tzu and poetically translated in this edition by St Leggi tutto

آيين تائو "تائو" مبدأ و جوهر نهانى جهان را نوعى ظلمت و بى شكلى مى داند كه توصيفش از آن به قدرى به "عدم" نزديك است كه سخت بتوان آن را منطبق بر مفهوم رايج "خدا" دانست. بر اساس حكمت تائو سالك با رسيدن به اين ظلمت و عدم است كه به آرامش مى رسد: با رها كردن انديشيدن و همۀ دانش هايش، با واگذاشتن "ذهن" و رسيد Leggi tutto

This is, by far, my favorite translation of the Tao Te Ching. I own a few others and they're all well and good, but this one is the one I continually read from and refer to when people ask me about the Tao. The translation is well done, it captures the nature of the text well, and it flows fairly eve Leggi tutto

- قرأت الكثير عن المعتقدات الصينية خلال حياتي، لكني بكل تأكيد ما كنت اعتقده فهماً تاماً لتلك المعتقدات هو فهم مقصور وخاطئ. هذه النتيجة اتضحت جلية خلال وبعد انتهائي من هذا البحث. - التاو-تي شينغ، جذر المعتقدات الصينية، كتبه لاو – تسو ما بين اواسط القرن السادس والخامس قبل الميلاد بلغّة مكثّفة ومختصرة، Leggi tutto

This version irritates me a lot, largely because of Stephen Mitchell's arrogance in writing it (I'll go into that in a bit). This is not a translation (which Mitchell was at least gracious enough to make clear in the back of the book); it's a translation of various translations. The problem with thi Leggi tutto

"If you realize that all things change, there's nothing you will try to hold on to." Things arise and she lets them come;things disappear and she lets them go.She has but doesn't possessacts but doesn't expect. The Tao Te Ching clarifies the concepts of Taoism, an ancient school of philosophy that