The Tao Te Ching | Full Audiobook with beautiful Taoist imagery

The Tao Te Ching, also known by its pinyin romanisation Dao De Jing, is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Lao Tzu. The text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written-or at least compiled-later than the earliest portions of the Zhuangzi.
The Tao Te Ching, along with the Zhuangzi, is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism. It also strongly influenced other schools of Chinese philosophy and religion, including Legalism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, which was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts when it was originally introduced to China. Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and gardeners, have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. Its influence has spread widely outside East Asia and it is among the most translated works in world literature.
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[@Benjaminthemighty]

38:36 really interesting stuff 41:05 love the switch to feminine language, showing the Master can be male or female 🙂

[@mariameere5807]

Beautiful narration!! 🙏🕊🤍🕊

[@lewiskirk8289]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@mariameere5807]

I love this book! Thank you so much 😊
♥️✨👑✨♥️

[@lewiskirk8289]

You are very welcome! 😊

[@kvei452]

Thank you so much, this is by far my favorite translation.

[@lewiskirk8289]

Glad you enjoyed it. 🙏

[@Flat_Earth_Addy]

Which is it?

[@Ms.coconut928]

Thank you 🙏

[@lewiskirk8289]

You’re welcome 😀🙏

[@johntold3068]

Thanks for this

[@lewiskirk8289]

You're very welcome! 🙏

[@mikeq5807]

You can translate the Tao Te Ching ...
You will need the six ancient manuscripts, available online: Guodian (c. 300 BCE,) Mawang Dui A and B (c. 200 BCE,) Heshang Gong (c. 150 BCE,) Wang Bi (c. 150 CE,) and Fu Yi (c. 500 CE.)
Type in the search field, Onkellotus Tao Te Ching manuscripts. Click on daodejing - listed. Then scroll down to number 19, just after LINKS. Click on it, Das Tao Te King von Lao Tse. The six ancient manuscripts are atop. The foreign translations are next, in descending order. The English translations are the bottom third of the page. This page is crucial because it contains the six ancient manuscripts at the top of this page.
You will need the MDBG Chinese-English dictionary. You can type in the pinyin (the letters that represent the characters,) or even better, copy paste the Chinese characters into the dictionary search field. Very easy to use!
You will need zhongwen.com/daodejing. This resource will give you archaic meanings and is a good complement to your MDBG resource. Just click on 1-10 or 11-20 and so forth, then scroll to the poem you're working on, then click on the character you want information on, and it will appear in the column on the right of it at the top. This resource is particularly good for archaic meanings, as well as for giving you a breakdown as to the meaning of each character you click on.

[@EnderViBrittania]

Dead link

[@wuwei6403]

Thank you for this, Mr. Kirk. i really like this translation. Is this your favorite translation?

[@lewiskirk8289]

I'm glad you liked it! It's the translation I'm most familiar with. There are many, but this is the one I know.

[@SuperPussyFinger]

Who is the translator here?

[@lewiskirk8289]

Stephen Mitchell.

[@livefromplanetearth]

🙏🏾👍🏾

[@Flat_Earth_Addy]

Only 48 minutes for the whole book?

[@lewiskirk8289]

Yes, it’s only a short textz

[@Flat_Earth_Addy]

@@lewiskirk8289 Thank you. I have not read Laozu since I was young. I thought it was bigger. Ha ha. Thank you.