Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (eBook)
144 Seiten
Shambhala (Verlag)
978-0-8348-2463-8 (ISBN)
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le Guin's striking new version. Le Guin, best known for thought-provoking science fiction novels that have helped to transform the genre, has studied the Tao Te Ching for more than forty years. She has consulted the literal translations and worked with Chinese scholars to develop a version that lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way to modern people, while remaining faithful to the poetic beauty of the work. Avoiding scholarly interpretations and esoteric Taoist insights, she has revealed the Tao Te Ching's immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humor, in a way that shows better than ever before why it has been so much loved for more than 2,500 years. Included are Le Guin's own personal commentary and notes on the text. This new version is sure to be welcomed by the many readers of the Tao Te Ching as well as those coming to the text for the first time.
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le Guin's striking new version. Le Guin, best known for thought-provoking science fiction novels that have helped to transform the genre, has studied the Tao Te Ching for more than forty years. She has consulted the literal translations and worked with Chinese scholars to develop a version that lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way to modern people, while remaining faithful to the poetic beauty of the work. Avoiding scholarly interpretations and esoteric Taoist insights, she has revealed the Tao Te Ching 's immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humor, in a way that shows better than ever before why it has been so much loved for more than 2,500 years. Included are Le Guin's own personal commentary and notes on the text. This new version is sure to be welcomed by the many readers of the Tao Te Ching as well as those coming to the text for the first time.
Chapter25: Imaginingmystery Thereis something thatcontains everything. Beforeheaven and earth it is. Oh,it is still, unbodied, allon its own, unchanging, all-pervading, ever-moving. Soit can act as the mother of all things. Notknowing its real name, weonly call it the Way. Ifit must be named, letits name be Great. Greatnessmeans going on, goingon means going far, andgoing far means turning back. Sothey say: 'The Way is great, heavenis great, earthis great, andhumankind is great, fourgreatnesses in the world, andhumanity is one of them.' Peoplefollow earth, earthfollows heaven, heaven follows the Way, theWay follows what is. Chapter34: Perfect trust TheGreat Way runs to left, to right, theten thousand things dependingon it, living on it, acceptedby it. Doingits work, itgoes unnamed. Clothing and feeding the ten thousand things, itlays no claim on them andasks nothing of them. Callit a small matter. Theten thousand things return to it, thoughit lays no claim on them. Callit great. Sothe wise soul withoutgreat doings achievesgreatness.
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8348-2463-9 / 0834824639 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8348-2463-8 / 9780834824638 |
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