Reviews

Tao Te Ching by Laozi

mobskull's review against another edition

challenging inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

5.0

mil4's review against another edition

hopeful informative fast-paced

3.25

savaging's review against another edition

5.0

Call me a hippy, but I found this to be the most accurate, well-thought-through, and meaningful 'foundation' text from any of the world's major religions.

I hear [a:Ursula LeGuin|7203341|Ursula LeGuin|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png] did a translation. I'd like to read that.

Gain or loss: which one hurts?

Extreme love exacts a great price.
Many possessions entail heavy loss.

Know what is enough--
Abuse nothing.
Know when to stop--
Harm nothing.

This is how to last a long time.

gaby_b's review against another edition

fast-paced

2.0

irfan3's review against another edition

5.0

Great eastern philosophy literature, very poetic and invites the reader to grasp the meaning of every word. The content is general and full of quotable lines. You may have to read each page or the book more than once, and the meaning you will interpret will be different each time.

zsandri's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring slow-paced

5.0

mussa's review against another edition

3.0

if i wasn’t muslim, id become a taoist monk. kidding, this book wasn’t as enlightening as i’d hoped and some of it felt like forced “wisdom” but alas maybe i’m not the target audience. some of it felt like it completely contradicted with other parts of it which is not very ying and yang if you ask me. I did like a lot of the quotes however, and i definitely think taoism is a pretty timeless philosophy. fortunately though, the quran solos.

jeritingz's review

2.0

2.5

tx_sandwich's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

m_akbar's review against another edition

4.0

An okay introduction, though made the book sounded more Alan Watts-like than it is supposed to be. The notes doesn't give much helpful intellectual context, and painted more of the translator than the Great Book itself. Might need some other edition for that. Still, okay as an introduction.