A00265 - Book of the Month for the Month of May 2024: Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

May is AAPI Heritage Month


To celebrate the month, I have decided to visit a volume that has long been on my library shelf, but which has not been read.  The volume is entitled Tao Te Ching and the author is Lao Tzu, as translated by Victor H. Mair and with an introduction by Huston Smith.  The book cover says this about the Tao Te Ching

"The classic collection of spiritual insights and observations called the Tao Te Ching embodies the search for a way to live based not on arbitrary rules of morality but on achieving harmony with all things.  Here can be found an understanding of the essential oneness of the universe, that cosmic energy -- ch'i -- flows within and around us without ceasing, and that wisdom consists not in acting upon the world in order to change it, but in finding and following the Way -- the Tao.  Taoism explains the world in terms of contemplation, meditation, acceptance, and reconciliation, striking imagery that penetrates the heart."

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I am looking forward to reading this Tao Te Ching.  I am hoping that it will provide greater insights for the mystical journey that I have been on now for the last fifty-two years.  Who knows maybe it will also provide some insights for the mystical journey that you may be on of your own.

Let us see.  Let us begin.

Peace,

Everett "Skip" Jenkins
Fairfield, California 
May 6, 2024

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