The Book of the Simple Way

About this book

The wise person learns from water, which finds the lowest place and yet wears away stone. Laozi's sayings return again and again to such reversals, asking what strength looks like when it abandons force.

This edition of the Tao Te Ching, associated with Walter Gorn Old, offers an English encounter with a compact and notoriously difficult Chinese classic. Its translation choices reflect the interpreter's own spiritual vocabulary. The chapters are short enough to read in minutes and difficult enough to occupy thought for years.