Here is a uniquely fresh translation of the venerable Tào Té Ching-able to be renewed by being rooted in the oldest available manuscripts. Rigorous in its approach and unflinching in its resolve to seek accuracy and uncover the original author's intent. This is definitely unlike the numerous "paraphrase" translations. The translations that conform to convention and are dependent upon passed down, polished, smoothed over, and edited text. This is something much different. A translation that is the result of over a thousand hours of working closely with the earliest known versions of the Tao Té Ching: The Guodian Bamboo Slips and the Mawangdui Silk Manuscripts (A and B), along with the Heshang Gong commentary used supplementally when deemed necessary. And a translator committed to using any