Tao Te Ching – 0

What is this Book?

You can read it here

To be honest: I don’t really know as of now. I read the introduction already, and it’s about the way of the tao. Whatever this “tao” means. This will be in the book (or at least I hope it is).

In the foreword the author said, it’s originally the book of an “old master”, of whom we hardly know anything.

I believe, it’s something about the tao – which is a chinese (?) philosophy(?). I guess we’ll figure it out along the way. Luckily I’m no longer in school, so if we (I) don’t like it, we (I) can just stop reading it.

The broad structure is somewhat clear. I just need to figure out the details. Some obvious things I need to do:

• show the poem from the book
• write some text to the poem

I also want to do some more. I remember in school, we had to analyze poems, and then once they only showed us the name of the poem after we analyzed it. I still remember this, because, at first it didn’t make any sense, but then after the name was given, it did. (If you’re wondering: it was something like “the carousel”, but I don’t know by whom or when it was written…)

So I also give a title to the poems, and only afterwards read the title the author gave. And maybe then some more things will pop in my head…

After writing this first section, I thought, maybe I don’t need to show the poem, and can only link it. I think I’ll do that, and just quote the part I write about – which then in fact will be the whole poem (I believe).

SO, this means:

1. Link to the poem, so you could read it in advance
2. Analysis from top to bottom, probably paragraph wise
3. Give a title
4. Read the author’s title
5. Finishing words / conclusion

Maybe I forgot something. We’ll see. If so: since this is not a diary entry, I’m allowed to change it. So maybe I’ll do.

Anyway. Let’s get this Book-Club started!