Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

Stephen Mitchell · Lao Tzu

Apr 2007 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Stephen Mitchell

About this audiobook

In 81 brief chapters, Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao—the basic principle of the universe.

Stephen Mitchell's bestselling version has been widely acclaimed as a gift to contemporary culture.

Ratings and reviews

one must understand what superior man is or at least understand why its important to be so. It has to be the most important book there is, yet western thought still holds it down as some lost thing they can not name easily. The whole base is upon the true cosmic conscious world all around the cosmos UNIVERSE down to detail on one 'the Conscious One' the beginning, the moment, as time does not exist, yet man has learned to confuse man at the hand of those who have taken the control over the Western world . THE TAO is a structured path that helped mankind ascend to become Dragons then into realm of Phoenix, the collective, the conscious center, the ONE. Added note man replays the human life game over and over, like a broken record, the TAO, was taught to help realized beings how to break this cycled curse in DNA which was altered to forget & repeat. SIMPLE MAN suffers, until awoken, the cycle is broken sprit is set free

This is my go-to whenever I want to center myself. There's nothing soothing like the truth, especially read by Mitchell. If you don't understand everything at first or if parts don't seem to make sense, it's fine. I found I grew into it and it is my trusty companion.

This could not be read in a more monotone voice. A text to speech generator would have been more expressive.

About the author

Stephen Mitchell's many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and The Second Book of the Tao, as well as The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, and Meetings with the Archangel.