Second Book of the Tao

<b> A twenty-first-century form of ancient wisdom . . . Mitchell's flights his paradoxes his wonderful riffs are brilliant and liberating. -Pico Iyer </b> <p/> The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible Lao-tzu's <i>Tao Te Ching</i> or <i>Book of the Way</i> is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal success of his own version of the <i>Tao Te Ching</i> renowned scholar and translator Stephen Mitchell has composed the innovative <i>The Second Book of the Tao</i>. Drawn from the work of Lao-tzu's disciple Chuang- tzu and Confucius's grandson Tzu-ssu <i>The Second Book of the Tao</i> collects the freshest most profound teachings from these two great students of the Tao to offer Western readers a path into reality that has nothing to do with east or west but everything to do with truth. With his own illuminating commentary alongside each adapta­tion at once explicating and complementing the text Mitchell makes the ancient teachings at once modern relevant and timeless. <p/><p><b>Listen to a special podcast with Stephen Mitchell: </b></p>