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Tao Te Ching

Laozi

Tao Te Ching

Paper book: €11.99

Digital: €1.99

Original publication
400 BC
Pages
179
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Philosophy, Poetic
Moods
Think it through, Understand myself, Savour the writing
Translated from
English

Book summary

Attributed to the Chinese sage Lao Tzu, this little book gathers eighty-one short poems about the Tao, the way that guides all things. It praises water, which overcomes stone through its softness, and emptiness, which makes a vessel useful.

For more than two thousand years, its readers have learnt from it how to act without forcing, to stay simple and to find calm.

Its very short texts can be read one by one, at your own pace, in the language you are learning.

The plot

큰일은 작은 데서 시작된다. “아름드리나무도 털끝만 한 싹에서 자라나고, 아홉 층 누대도 한 줌 흙에서 세워진다.”.

The world of the book

2500년 전, 현자들의 중국. 당시 중국은 서로 다투는 여러 나라로 나뉘어 있었다. 현자들은 왕들에게 조언하러 다녔다.

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