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The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi, though the text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written—or at least compiled—later than the earliest portions of the Zhuangzi.

For over two thousand years, the Tao Te Ching has stood as one of the most profound works of world philosophy. At once poetic and practical, mysterious and direct, it offers timeless wisdom on living with balance, humility, and harmony. In this new translation, author and teacher Daniele Bolelli brings fresh clarity and vitality to Lao Tzu's classic text. Drawing on his background in philosophy, history, and martial arts, Bolelli renders the Tao Te Ching in language that is both faithful to its spirit and accessible to modern listeners.

The Tao Te Ching is a Taoist philosophical treatise. Lao Tzu, a great Ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher, is considered to be the author of this book. We owe this book to an unnamed guardian who kept safe the far western borders of a country, Zhou in the fifth century BC. The legend says that exhausted from misunderstanding Teacher with a tired heart went on his last journey - to die in a dessert. The guardian recognized great Lao Tzu, called him by name and, nobody knows how, persuaded the wise man to tell a world about Dao and De.

Written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi and read by Emma Topping.