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Lao Tzu and Anthroposophy
A Translation of the Tao Te Ching
with Commentary and a Lao Tzu Document “The Great One Excretes Water”
Kwan-Yuk Claire Sit
ISBN: 9781584200871
Book (Paperback)
Lindisfarne Books
$25.00
5.83 x 8.27 inches
208 pages
November 2010
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According to tradition, Lao Tzu wrote the eighty-one short chapters of his Tao Te Ching around the fourth century B.C.E. It became the foundational philosophical work of Taoism, significantly inspired early masters of Zen Buddhism, and, for more than a century, has been widely embraced in the West as an astounding work of universal truths. Through deceptively simple imagery, Lao Tzu gave us a guide to life, both spiritual and physical, that is no less valid today than when it was written more than 2,500 years ago.
Claire Sit, the author of The Lord’s Prayer: An Eastern Perspective, brings us her translation of the Tao Te Ching and, through her deep study and understanding of that text, examines each chapter and places it in the light of Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy. In the process, she shows how, although the path of Tao and that of Anthroposophy apper quite different, they complement each other and share many qualities and, in many ways, illumine the hidden truths each has to offer. As in Anthroposophy, on the path of Tao one looks within to know the world and into the world to know one’s self.
 Kwan-Yuk Claire Sit grew up in Hong Kong and moved to the U.S. to attend graduate school. She holds a Ph.D. in pure mathematics from the City University of New York and is Professor Emerita at La Guardia Community College. She is deeply interested in Eastern philosophy and Anthroposophy, and her hobbies include knitting, Chinese calligraphy, and Tang and Sung poems.
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