Tao Te Ching - A simple, little version of the Tao Te Ching: The Tao of Empty Space: Volume 1

The Tao Te Ching is considered the keystone work of the philosophy of Taoism.The founder of Taoism, Lao Tzu, a record-keeper at the Zhou dynasty court, is thought to have lived during the time of Confucius, and his ideas diverged from Confucian beliefs of social classes and rigid rituals. Scholars generally agree that the Tao Te Ching was written by dozens or hundreds of authors over decades or centuries.Lao Tzu means “Old Master,” which has led scholars to question whether or not he ever existed.Following the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1996,) set into motion by Chairman Mao Zedong, Chinese people today have almost no knowledge of the contents of the Tao Te Ching.In 1981, the Communist Party of China declared that the Cultural Revolution was “responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the country, and the people since the founding of the People’s Republic.”In the English language, Tao Te Ching is pronounced “Dao De Jing” or “Dao Duh Jing.”There are countless translations of the Tao Te Ching.The versions I've read have one thing in common—they are difficult to understand. This makes the text inaccessible to a lot of people, and that's a pity because it's a nice piece of work.I'm bringing this classic text to a larger audience with this simplified and modernized version.

Duane graduated from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 1986 with a BA in Journalism. From 1986 - 2008, Duane worked for Grey Worldwide, an advertising agency, in New York, Dusseldorf, Zurich, Madrid, Lisbon, Belgium, London, Mexico City, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila and Bangkok. In 2012 Duane created the entertainment project “Command Magellan,” a one-hour TV science fiction drama, and wrote the first version of the script. In 2015 Duane created the entertainment project “Empty Space” and wrote the first draft of the script. This book, The Tao of Empty Space, was started in 2007 and completed in 2015. I’d like to thank Oliver Benjamin, the founder of Dudeism, for his encouragement. In 2015 Duane founded Dude Productions in Chiang Mai, Thailand.