![]() ![]() ![]() It would seem that the description applies not just to the ancient Chinese sages but to Mitchell himself, a man with an eye for the genuine, a deep love and respect for words, and an awareness that, paradoxically, connecting with the essence of things always requires going beyond words. "There was only a passion for the genuine, a fascination with words, and a constant awareness that the ancient Masters are alive and well in the mind that doesn't know a thing." "There was nothing to live up to," he says. Mitchell describes their philosophy as a kind of non-philosophy. ![]() In The Second Book of the Tao, just published by the Penguin Press, he anthologizes some of the great teachings of Chuang-tzu - Lao-tzu's brilliant and playful disciple - and Tzu-Ssu, the grandson of Confucius. He has also co-authored two bestselling books with his wife Byron Katie. Renowned translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell has brought to life a wide range of literary classics for readers of English, including the Tao Te Ching, the epic of Gilgamesh, the Bhagavad Gita and the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. ![]()
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