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Tao Te Ching (Skylight Illuminations)

Description

Reportedly written by a sage named Lao Tzu over 2,500 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is one of the most succinct--and yet among the most profound--spiritual texts ever written. Short enough to read in an afternoon, subtle enough to study for a lifetime, the Tao Te Ching distills into razor-sharp poetry centuries of spiritual inquiry into the Tao--the "Way" of the natural world around us that reveals the ultimate organizing principle of the universe.

Derek Lin's insightful commentary, along with his new translation from the original Chinese--a translation that sets a whole new standard for accuracy--will inspire your spiritual journey and enrich your everyday life. It highlights the Tao Te Ching's insights on simplicity, balance, and learning from the paradoxical truths you can see all around you: finding strength through flexibility (because bamboo bends, it is tough to break); achieving goals by transcending obstacles (water simply flows around rocks on its way to the sea); believing that small changes bring powerful results (a sapling, in time, grows into a towering tree).

Now you can experience the wisdom and power of Lao Tzu's words even if you have no previous knowledge of the Tao Te Ching. SkyLight Illuminations provides insightful yet unobtrusive commentary that describes helpful historical background, explains the Tao Te Ching's poetic imagery, and elucidates the ancient Taoist wisdom that will speak to your life today and energize your spiritual quest.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-30
Summary: "Understandable!"

I am not a scholarly person but a translation still has to make sense, be accurate and it has to resonate with me. This translation of the Tao Te Ching with the author's annotations has been the easiest and most enjoyable version I have read. I read through it one year then put it on the shelf and did not look at it again. Then roughly a year later I decided to study the Tao Te Ching again but this time I went through each verse day by day along with two other versions by different authors using annotations in my quest to truly "get it" and in so doing this version hands down made the most sense to me. This book just puts it altogether in an understandable manner. Great book and I use it as a resource in my daily living.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-07-13
Summary: "deserves a look"

Readable and, I believe, credible new translation of this work. The 4 stars are, of course, not really for the Tao Te Ching itself, but this particular version. At times, I wished the author had provided more scholarly and in-depth notes to accompany it. Listening to some podcasts I found of public seminars he gave and visiting his website left me with the impression that there are many fascinating points associated with this book, its history, meaning, and his work in translating it which might have proven interesting or useful for the reader. On occasion, however, the notes on a particular line or paragraph were summary, simplistic, or restated a fairly obvious point. Not as insightful as I had hoped in exploring the language of the Tao, and its translation from the original to English, but still worthwhile. I wouldn't think twice about recommending this book to someone I know.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-05-22
Summary: "Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time..."

I choose Amazon.com for purchasing books because of limited availability at local bookstores in some cases, and for the convenience of the purchase in other cases. Ordering the Tao Te Ching from this seller was anything BUT convenient, (and this book was easily available at local stores as you might expect.)

The Seller required that someone sign for the book when it arrives. No problem, except for someone who works for a living as I do. I appreciate the attempt at order security, but this is a book, not diamonds and it does not need someone to sign for receipt- this is OVERKILL.

After missing UPS three times and being told that if I missed them one more time that I would have to PICK UP THE ORDER from their distribution location (a half-an-hour trip each way,) I decided to cut my loses with this company and I had them RETURN the book to the seller.

I went to the local used bookstore and found this exact same version of the Tao, but I had such a BAD TASTE in my mouth from this organization that I went with a simpler less ostentatious printing :)

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-04-27
Summary: "excellent read to start,"

The translation is excellent as far as I can judge. The explanations on the opposite pages are exceptionally clear and helpful with new insights.
The book limits itself to the Tao Te Ching. The Tao religion further developments with the works of Chuang Tzu is not covered. The author lists nine books for further reading and the website [...] , which is indeed a pleasant starting point for further study.
I give it 4 stars only for lack of illustrations.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-01-02
Summary: "Kindle edition commentary layout is disorganized, confusing"

The Kindle edition of the Tao Te Ching (Skylight Illuminations) is defective.

In the print edition, each chapter has a number of footnotes (containing commentary) which can be read on the facing page, making it easy to read the text and the commentary at the same time.

In the Kindle edition, the footnotes are displayed on the page following the chapter/text, so you have to page-down in order to read them. Not all the footnotes are in order, either. For example, chapter one has about 6 footnotes, but only 2 footnotes follow chapter one before displaying chapter two. After chapter three, footnotes from chapter one start showing up mixed in with the footnotes on chapter two or three, making it confusing, not knowing which chapters the footnote comments are referring to. Very poor layout.

Skylight Illuminations books seem to be designed primarily as commentaries on certain texts, so if the reader can't comfortably follow the footnotes/commentaries while reading, it defeats the purpose in having this edition.

Otherwise, the text of this version of the Tao Te Ching is quite good, but better to get the print edition.