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Tao Te Ching
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This translation of the Tao Te Ching preserves all the beautiful ambiguity and spartan quality of the original. Less interpretive than other translations and more poetic... the first line readsd "Tao called Tao is not Tao," leaving it up to the reader to determine what "Tao" is.
Some interesting ideas. It was useful to contrast it with Confucius' Analects, which I was reading at the time. My copy of Tao Te Ching did not have any notes, which I feel would have fleshed out some of the ideas. I should go back and read the Tao of Pooh, now that I've read the original.
Not what I thought it would be. There's a lot of misinterpretation. People like to view it as a way to live your life: modest and humble. But some of it is really about how a ruler should control his people: keep them ignorant so they can't revolt, don't show off so they won't be jealous. But still, a book is what you get out of it. If it make syou a better person, by all means.
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