9781644112465-1644112469-The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching: A New Translation and Commentary

The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching: A New Translation and Commentary

ISBN-13: 9781644112465
ISBN-10: 1644112469
Author: Rosemarie Anderson
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Format: Paperback 160 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781644112465
ISBN-10: 1644112469
Author: Rosemarie Anderson
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Format: Paperback 160 pages

Summary

The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching: A New Translation and Commentary (ISBN-13: 9781644112465 and ISBN-10: 1644112469), written by authors Rosemarie Anderson, was published by Inner Traditions in 2021. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Goddesses (New Age & Spirituality, Tao Te Ching, Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts, Taoism, Movements, Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching: A New Translation and Commentary (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Goddesses books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.47.

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In this book, Rosemarie Anderson shares her discoveries of the Divine Feminine Tao alongside her original translation of the Tao Te Ching. Working from ancient silk and bamboo slip manuscripts, the oldest known copies of the Tao Te Ching, the author slowly translated all 81 chapters over the course of two years, allowing each section to reveal its intimate poetic and spiritual nature. To her surprise, she discovered that the Tao was unmistakably feminine, consistently referred to as "mother," "virgin," and the "womb" of creation.

Anderson explains how the Tao is a feminine force, the Dark Womb of Creation, the Immortal Void renewing life again and again in ordinary times and in times of crisis. She offers commentary for each of the 81 chapters to help reveal their profound wisdom. The author also restores the chapters' simplicity and musical undertones, explaining how, in the original Chinese manuscripts, the text is poetic and rhymed because the Tao Te Ching was often recited or sung--yet most English translations are written in scholarly prose with long sentences and complex syntax. She shows how the great Tao's message of wei wu wei--"act without acting" and "do without doing"--offers a path of peace and well-being for ourselves and for our relationships with others and the earth, a path that arises from spontaneous action that seeks no gain for the self.

Capturing the original feminine nature of this ancient text, Anderson's translation sheds new light on the esoteric wisdom contained within the Tao Te Ching and on the mystical feminine essence of the Tao.

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