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Created on 2002-01-08 12:15:57 (#433170), last updated 2006-07-19
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Basic Info| Name: | Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Tzu, or Lao Tse |
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| Birthdate: | 04-30 |
| Location: | Po Chou, China |
| Website: | WikiPedia: Lao Zi |
BioGreetings traveler. I invite you to sit down and ponder the verses from the most famous of my writings, the Tao Te Ching.
On the weekends I will post a verse from a famous contemporary philosopher, Mr. Jack Handey. I love that man.
Comments on what these verses mean to you, and how they affect your life would bring much joy to an old man's heart.
Always remember that man's consciousness breaks all barriers when he is completely in the present - neither haunted by the past, nor afraid of the future. The more spontaneous a decision, the more correct and appropriate it is.
(note : one translation by Ursula K. LeGuin has already been completed. You can start at the first verse or flip through the calendar pages.
On the weekends I will post a verse from a famous contemporary philosopher, Mr. Jack Handey. I love that man.
Comments on what these verses mean to you, and how they affect your life would bring much joy to an old man's heart.
Always remember that man's consciousness breaks all barriers when he is completely in the present - neither haunted by the past, nor afraid of the future. The more spontaneous a decision, the more correct and appropriate it is.
(note : one translation by Ursula K. LeGuin has already been completed. You can start at the first verse or flip through the calendar pages.
A second translation, started by Jesse Garon, but never completed, has run its course also. You can start at the first verse here.)
The third translation was done by Stan Rosenthal. You can find the entire text online.
This fourth incarnation, though incomplete, is by Jeffrey Sorenson. His copyright notice is included below.
With all due apology to Stephen Mitchell, who's translation was the basis for this, and, of course, Lao Tzu.
Written by Jeffrey Sorensen. This document is not copyrighted and is in the public domain. The author respectfully requests that his attribution and apology be retained during reproduction.
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