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Dao de Jing
- Narrated by: Robert Lowenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy
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- Chris
- 24-06-11
A Bit Hard Going
If you are going to buy this bear in mind that it doesn't get into the Dao itself until half way through the recording. The first half is taken up by all the explanation about the translation and the justification behind their interpretation. I understand the complexity of translating something like the Dao De Jing but it was a little confusing listening to a 4 hour introduction. Several times I wasn't sure whether they had actually started talking about the Dao but they hadn't so bear this in mind. If you want to get straight into it, skip to part 4.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-08-17
Nice addition to my library of spiritual material.
Lots to work on as this is a practicable text not just to listen but I have to admit I am having to use the internet for defining some of the English words used in the translation. They go a way into explaining the chapters with commentary notes.
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- Amazon Costumer
- 04-01-21
What rubbish!
This is simply Epicureanism sprinkled with eastern spice. Lots of jargon amounting to not much.
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- Christopher
- 24-06-19
A very interesting listen
The use of language to analyse the texts can take a little getting used to, however the philosophical message of the Dao De Jing is well conveyed.
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- Benny H.
- 28-10-18
Fantastic discourse
Very impressed with this work. Wonderfully in-depth commentary and translation. Great narration. The best I've found on audible as yet.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-11-19
The critical reviews are missing the point
Several reviews of this audiobook criticize the fact that most of this book consists of prose commentary. Some reviews criticize the translation. Both are missing the point. The philosophical commentary *IS* the book. The commentary proposes that the Dao de Jing expresses a coherent, nuanced, and valuable cosmological and metaphysical vision. The translation attempts to make this philosophical vision comprehensible. If you are more interested in considering the Dao de Jing PURELY as a poem, and you are exclusively concerned with the "flow" of the translation (the number of syllables and how well it rhymes) then choose another translation - or better yet, go read a nursery rhyme. If you want to approach the Dao de Jing as a nuanced, complex, condensed, crystalized philosophical vision, then understand that unpacking that vision may require some technical language, and translating that vision in a CONCEPTUALLY accurate manner might not read like Dr. Seuss. If that sounds interesting, ignore the baseless criticisms and get this book.
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- Chi-Hung
- 08-06-09
Unless you are a sinologist
I am fluent in modern Chinese, but the narrator's pronouciation is so awful that I couldn't understand what he was saying without going back to the ancient original. This translation also suffers from too many commentaries, two hours introduction and 81 commentary made this book very unwieldly, the philosophical translation (or rather, philosophical commentaries) also render this edition arcane at best, but if you are a sinologist, I think this book will still be of interest to you.
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- Kenni Littlefield
- 11-10-18
Good, but needs better chapter breaks
This audio recording could really use some bookmarks. There are 81 chapters to the Dao De Jing, and it's very difficult to find the specific chapter you are looking for. The actual chapter splits seem to be random, and unconcerned about whether they split at an actual chapter, or even in the middle of the commentary. It would actually be much more useful, and less confusing, if there were a new chapter or a bookmark for each chapter from the book.
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- Kermit
- 20-03-16
best self help book EVER!
It seems that 2400- 2600 years ago there was a lot of thinking going on. Socrates. Siddhartha, and Lao Tzu. and all of it so applicable today that it seems fresh. and matured.
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- Carter
- 24-06-11
Dear heavens, what a train wreck
If this were a meal, it would be a chicken, boiled until all flavor is lost and poured down the drain.
I have many translations of the Tao Te Ching. Every new translation usually brings some wonderful contribution to the experience, but I have yet to discover what the contribution here is.
I usually enjoy insightful commentary on the text many translations offer. I love the glimpses of cultural insight and explanations many translations and commentaries provide. This reads like an academic treatment that was refused for publication by philosophical journals.
The translation is ineloquent and sterile. The commentary is pretentious and haughty. It takes more than three hours of self-congratulatory introduction before the translation even begins.
Even in translation, it's clear from the whole of available translations the Tao Te Ching is a work of eloquence and beauty. Alas, neither has managed to survive this edition.
Look elsewhere.
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- Gilbert Kyle Perez
- 11-08-20
Best fortune cookie ever!
Perfect if you want to explore the text as much as you can. Only complaint is how the audiobook chapters are structured seems odd with how the actual book is structured.
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- Emanuele
- 02-03-20
as good as it gets
thorough analysis and explanation, allow a reader used to western philosophy to approach the Dao De Jing in the right way, answer some questions and explained why others have to remain unanswered or rather, explain which one are the correct ones to ask
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- RockolT
- 28-10-19
awesome book
the Dao de Jing is an excellent book for guidance on making your way through life
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- Page
- 17-12-16
Wonderful
Definitely a great read that sheds light on many of the otherwise vague passages in the Dao.
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- Toni P.
- 09-08-19
this narrarator.is aweful i can not.listen to him
the narrarater is awful and he is very difficult to listen to... super annoying spund like a robot!!! i want s refund