Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Among the many translations of Lao Tzu s Tao Te Ching, Ursula K. Le Guin s new version is a special treasure a delight. There is something startlingly fresh and creatively alive here, brought forth by Ms. Le Guin s intuitive and personal ingenuity. Chuangliang Al Huang, founder of the Living Tao Foundation and coauthor (with Alan Watts) of Tao: The Watercourse Way
 
A student of the Tao for several decades, Le Guin has created an English text that will speak to modern readers in a fresh and lively way, while conveying the humor, insight, and beauty of the original. Lion s Roar magazine
 
The type of work which the great Polish poet and Nobel laureate Wis awa Szymborska meant when she spoke of that rare miracle when a translation stops being a translation and becomes . . . a second original. . . . The whole of Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching is well worth savoring as much for the ancient substance as for Le Guin s stylistic splendor. Maria Popova, Brain Pickings