Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions)

WANG AN-SHIH says, “Resting where you are eliminates extremes. Treasuring simplicity eliminates extravagance. Being content with less eliminates excess.

Lao-tzu’s essential teaching of wu-wei, on the other hand, illustrates the futility of our attempts to control life. He emphasizes that it is only when you give up forcing or controlling anything that you begin to get the kind of control you always wanted, but never knew existed.

Spoken and written words cannot keep you on the path of cultivation. Only the actions you take will bring you closer to the Tao. The Tao is like the ultimate music beyond all music, or the ultimate art beyond any art. The only way to “get it” is to apply it in your life. There is no other way. You are the only one who can do it for yourself. No one