The Inner Life and the Tao-Teh-King

About this book

Laozi's little book of paradoxes becomes, in C. H. A. Bjerregaard's hands, a doorway to a much wider philosophy of inward life.

The author reads the Tao Te Ching through the mystical and comparative-religion ideas familiar to his Western audience, reflecting on stillness, action and the search for spiritual understanding. His interpretations are far removed from a neutral account of Chinese thought, but the encounter itself is illuminating. The book shows how an ancient text could become part of the modern spiritual conversation.