Pithy pages, an hour and a half of chewy sound bites, pointing to that which cannot be expressed.

This is cutting edge, up-to-the-minute, hot-off-the-presses wisdom, only about twenty five hundred years old. As the sage Lao Tzu was vacating civilization in disgust, one of his fans requested that he commit his teachings to writing before moving on. Up until then, who knows how long it percolated through oral tradition, passed in speech going back to its preverbal source.

And it is that “pure” preverbal experience that the Tao Te Ching evokes more than any other book:

“There was something undefined and complete, coming into
existence before Heaven and Earth. How still it was and formless,
standing alone, and undergoing no change, reaching everywhere and in
no danger of being exhausted! It may be regarded as the Mother of
all things.”

You will get a PDF of the Legge translation fomatted to the computer screen and broken into coherent memes that you will want to print and distribute in your environment. You also will receive nine mp3’s of the book read (quietly) out loud.

Warning: not to be consumed at one sitting. Try a paragraph, allow time for mental peristalsis. When listening to the audios, keep the pause button at hand.

Try random sampling.

Wayne Dyer recently popularized the ancient bestseller, but he somehow felt adding his own words impropved it.

You can get an artistic but otherwised unmodified version here. Even though the cost is zero, in order to prevent you from doing so, we have devised the most insulting possible guarantee:

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