Tao Te Ching - your preferred translation?

+1 vote on the OP

1.
If you can talk about it,
it ain't Tao.
If it has a name,
it's just another thing.

Tao doesn't have a name.
Names are for ordinary things.

Stop wanting stuff;
it keeps you from seeing what's real.
When you want stuff,
all you see are things.

Those two sentences
mean the same thing.
Figure them out,
and you've got it made.

http://www.beatrice.com/TAO.pdf

^ You can also get it as a book now, with extended commentary by the author. Who is a really nice guy, by the way. Heh, Taoist puns.



It forms part of my small and nerdy collection:

Thank you for the link tzb! Great site! Personally, I would like to see the admin add The Tao of Yoda by D.W. Kreger.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Tao-Yoda-Based-Ching/dp/0983309922/ref=pd_sim_b_1