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  • Published: 26 January 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141922324
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

Tao Te Ching




A modern, clear-eyed translation of one of the world’s most influential spiritual texts - offering a timeless guide to living with balance, purpose and quiet strength.

Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers a model by which the individual can live rather than explaining the human place in the universe. The moral code it encourages is based on modesty and self-restraint, and the rewards reaped for such a life are harmony and flow of life.

  • Published: 26 January 2000
  • ISBN: 9780141922324
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

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