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atticmoth's review
challenging
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
3.0
This is one of the books I've had the longest and hadn't touched until now... I remember buying this in middle school maybe? Anyway, I just couldn't get into it back then but I found that reading a little every night got me through it, 10 years later. It's not that it's hard to digest, it's just that so much of Lao Tzu's "advice" is soooo general I don't really know how to apply it in a real world situation. The whole non-action thing is a good idea, but I think can be difficult to process. Basically, a lot of this book felt like a self help guide to like, business bros... I can imagine it being retitled "Leadership Lessons for Upper Management" or something like that.
readingagwen's review
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
Funny enough I was brought here by a video about Kung Fu Panda. I was curious about the general belief system of Tao and this seemed to be a good place to start. I can't speak to the translation quality, as I can't read the original text, but it seemed like it got the ideas across. I would have loved to see little footnotes and such here and there with historical notes or clarification on some of the more cryptic ideas, but while I won't be following Taoism to a T, it definitely holds lessons that I think we could all take to heart, mostly that not everything can be forced into place, we need to let the natural flow of things, well, flow a little.
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