Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50733 in Books
• Published on: 1986-11-21
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

always keep this one handy
There's not much to be added to all the other positive reviews. This book never fails to calm and center me. It has been an old faithful friend for more years than I care to admit. To echo other reviewers, it is a poetic, lovely translation. It may not be scholarly, as it was not translated from the original Chinese, but it produces a stillness inside that I believe is the intent of Taoism. No other translation produces this inner peace.

The only hope for the Human Species
While the same wisdom has been expressed by many others,from Einstein to Jesus, this translation by Witter Bynner appears to me to describe, in the most concise manner possible, the nature of existence.

It provides about everything one could know, and tells us about that which is beyond knowing.

I would like to suggest that the book be required reading for all. I am tempted to add that there should be no other required reading.

This translation will change your life for the better.
I found this book (or it found me) at the right time a hundred years ago and reading it has made all the difference in the world -- my life wouldn't have been a fraction of what it has been if I had not opened this translation one morning many years ago.

"From wonder into wonder
Existence opens."