A ROADMAP TO IMMOVABLE CALM

For more than two thousand years, Lao Tzu’s masterpiece has stood as a towering mountain of profound wisdom. Across millennia, this living treatise has inspired over 2,500 distinct translations into at least 100 languages, the richest adopting the most relevant metaphors for each generation.

The fascination is understandable, as its 81 short chapters explore the nature and source of all reality. This translation delves into the non-dual nature of the tao, and also into the dualistic nature of our manifest world. The short commentaries following each chapter chart a path inspired by the venerated mental training of the Shaolin and samurai.

Reading just ten minutes per day, you will learn to:

• Understand the nature of the world and its obstacles

• Pierce the mental illusions that obscure vision

• Recognize and release painful mental attachments

• Develop unprecedented mental clarity

• Clear subconscious blockages that limit performance

• Improve focus and discipline

• Cultivate unshakeable calm in the midst of chaos

• Enter the venerated flow state of wu-wei (無為)