Reading the Tao Te Ching right now. Kind of disappointed. Any advice for how to approach/appreciate it?
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@KevinSimler Not a clue! Looks kinda Barnes & Noble to me. -
@KevinSimler http://www.duhtao.com/ is a good site; it has a bunch of different translations and you can compare passages. -
@KevinSimler Nice thing about the Daodejing is it's so short, if you don't like a translation at least it hasn't wasted much of your time. -
@KevinSimler But as a translation I really like CC Tsai's; cartooning is the correct context to initially encounter the text. -
@St_Rev whoa... my chess teacher gave me a cartoon version of Lao Tzu when I was 12 or so. I wonder if this is the same one -
@KevinSimler Probably! It's a classic. Same author has done a lot of the Chinese canon in manhua style. -
@St_Rev cool, super helpful. I guess I'll finish up with this one and then take a look at the Zhuangzi. thanks!
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@St_Rev (c) might be the piece I'm missing. I was reading it for personal/spiritual wisdom (not even sure what that means) -
@KevinSimler It's so short and so enigmatic that you can impose almost any reading you want on it. -
@KevinSimler Charitably, it's a text of aphorisms about wise action and wise inaction, so applicable to many things.
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@KevinSimler d) Realize the Zhuangzi is much more valuable, read that instead.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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