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Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao | 
| Author: Wayne W. Dyer Publisher: Hay House Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover Edition: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 416 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7 Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 1401911846 Dewey Decimal Number: 299.51482 EAN: 9781401911843 ASIN: 1401911846
Publication Date: July 31, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: Brand New Book - Ships next business day!!
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Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our existence. The classic text of these 81 verses, called the Tao Te Ching or the Great Way, offers advice and guidance that is balanced, moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working for the good. In this book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of the Tao Te Ching and has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today’s modern world. This work contains the entire 81 verses of the Tao, compiled from Wayne’s researching of 12 of the most well-respected translations of text that have survived for more than 25 centuries. Each chapter is designed for actually living the Tao or the Great Way today. Some of the chapter titles are “Living with Flexibility,” “Living Without Enemies,” and “Living by Letting Go.” Each of the 81 brief chapters focuses on living the Tao and concludes with a section called “Doing the Tao Now.” Wayne spent one entire year reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them each day and ultimately writing down these essays as he felt Lao-tzu wanted you to know them. This is a work to be read slowly, one essay a day. As Wayne says, “This is a book that will forever change the way you look at your life, and the result will be that you’ll live in a new world aligned with nature. Writing this book changed me forever, too. I now live in accord with the natural world and feel the greatest sense of peace I’ve ever experienced. I’m so proud to present this interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, and offer the same opportunity for change that it has brought me.”
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ExTension July 5, 2008 the book received was as advertized. Seller prompt with delivery. Packaged good and arrived the same.
nge Your Life July 4, 2008 Once again, Dr. Dyer gets to the heart as well as the mind. I will cherish this book for a long time. A+++
Great Read! June 22, 2008 Great and easy read. What I got out of this is that you should focus on the present and be conscious of your day. As the title suggest you can change your life by changing your thoughts, positive thoughts. This so reminds me of my favorite book on this subject,Living The Secret Everyday: My Secret Workbook.
Another Great direction by Dyer June 9, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dr. Dyer has a knack of learning new directions and sharing them with others. This is a great book.
Changed my mind about Dyer, too June 2, 2008 3 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a long term student of Taoism, I was somewhat skeptical about an author like Dyer (who I thought of as a very Western self-help oriented writer) giving the Tao te Ching a meaningful reading and discussion. I am happy to say I was very wrong to be skeptical. Dyer writes with an eloquence and erudition that is balanced and accessible without "dumbing down" the subject or insulting his readers.
The essays are best read one at a time and digested, somewhat like other day by day spiritual treatises like A Course in Miracles or the Daily Word or any other where you are meant to reflect and apply the ideas as the day goes on. Following this method was the best way I found to gain the benefit from meditating on them.
Dyer's book works well for someone who knows the Tao te Ching on some level and wants a new way to meditate upon its treasures. The book would work equally as well for someone who doesn't know the Tao te Ching, I would think, as he illuminates certain points which would assist a newer reader into garnering the meaning from the sometimes elusive language this ancient text uses.
The only issue I really have with Dyer's book is the product description which emphasizes Lao tzu as the author and that he came before Christ. For one, I think it is still a matter of scholarly contention as to who the author or authors of the Tao te Ching are. Also, using Lao Tzu or the Tao te Ching's earlier place in history compared to Christ is unnecessary. Its validity stands on its own merit and the comparison was a bit un-Tao-like I thought.
I would not recommend this book as the only study of the Tao te Ching or Taoism, but certainly would recommend it as an adjunct to additional readings on the subject. It's a volume to come back to more than once.
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