Dao de Jing

War Prayers ~ Mark Twain and Lao Tse on the artlessness of war

By Patrick on June 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday the people of The United States of America marked Memorial Day. It’s a day of baseball, hot dogs and apple pie, of families and communities gathering to celebrate the arrival of summer. It’s a day of flags and bunting and red, white & blue and national pride, and a […]

The second book of The Way ~ Stephen Mitchell illuminates the Tao again.

By Patrick on May 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The Second Book of the Tao, Stephen Mitchell (trans)

Mmmmm… a day of cloudy wet so a retreat into a tub of hot water with salsa & tortilla chips and a good book about one of my favourite subjects, Stephen Mitchell’s The Second Book of the Tao (Dao, Tao, same thing, same pronunciation: Dao). Hmmmm… the liner notes of […]

The Dao de Jing ~ The transformational quality of seeing the beauty in all things.

By Patrick on April 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The Tao te Ching :: The Book of the Way ~ Lao Tse (Stephen Mitchell trans.)

I can’t remember when I first encountered The Dao de Jing (also Tao te Ching, pronounced the same), which surprises me since it quickly grew to become my favourite written text. It’s brief (just 81 chapters of verse, a page or so each) yet richly nuanced. I’ve read all or […]