When I tell people that I like to read the Tao Te Ching, they start staring at the floor, as if looking for a dog to pet. It's like I've suddenly produced, and then struck, a 4,000-pound gong. But the ...

Taoist teachings (along with other Oriental philosophy) seem to calm, stimulate, and refresh me, in part, I think, because they bear such a striking contrast to many of the ideas I was exposed to ...

Books like Lord of the Flies and Call of the Wild are fairly standard recommended reading for boys, but there are plenty of other tomes that speak directly to young adult males and are well worth your ...

Master Zhi Gang Sha has many a title to his name. Along with being a doctor of both Western and Eastern medicine, Master Sha is a healer, a teacher, and author of 30 books, 11 of which made the New ...

ANCIENT INSIGHT: In his new translation, Mars Hill University professor of religious studies Marc Mullinax builds a framework for understanding each of the Tao Te Ching’s 81 verses through historical ...

The Tao Te Ching, as translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English, opened the door of Taoist thought and wisdom to the Western world 40 years ago. Now, Vintage Books, a division of Random House Inc.

More than five dozen translations of the Tao te Ching exist in English, making it questionable whether there is a need for yet another. But Stephen Hodge's Tao te Ching: A New Translation and ...