Pocket Taoist Wisdom
This compact collection of Taoism's greatest masterpieces introduces its most fundamental teachings and reveals the essential spirit of Tao.
From the time of its earliest sages in prehistoric China, Taoists have looked to the underlying Way of all things (the Tao) as the essential guide to life. For them, the patterns of nature revealed the answers to their deepest spiritual questions and provided the inspiration for their unique teachings. Over the centuries, Taoism has blossomed into a profound tradition with a variety of forms—all united by a single, core philosophy of radical simplicity and natural living. Today, Taoism is most widely known through the Tao-te Ching, yet its corpus of literature is vast—ranging from philosophical dialogues and essays to astonishing fables,…
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June 18, 2019Thomas Cleary holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He is the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic.
The Art of War
Sun Tzu; translated by Thomas Cleary
Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching
Dahui; translated by Thomas Cleary
Sage Leadership
Thomas Cleary
The Zen Reader
Thomas Cleary
The Art of War
Sun Tzu; translated by Thomas Cleary
Pocket Taoist Wisdom
Thomas Cleary
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi; translated by Thomas Cleary
I Ching
Cheng Yi, translated by Thomas Cleary
I Ching
Cheng Yi, translated by Thomas Cleary
Ways of Warriors, Codes of Kings: Lessons in Leadership from the Chinese Classic
Translated by Thomas Cleary
The Taoism Reader
Edited and translated by Thomas Cleary
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu, Takuan Soho; translated by Thomas Cleary
The Undying Lamp of Zen
Zen Master Torei Enji; translated and edited by Thomas Cleary
The Art of Peace
Morihei Ueshiba
The Dhammapada
Gil Fronsdal
The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali
Chip Hartranft
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Francesca Fremantle, Chogyam Trungpa
The Pocket Hagakure
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Teachings of the Hindu Mystics
Andrew Harvey
The Pocket Sappho
Willis Barnstone
The Spring of My Life
Kobayashi Issa
Pocket Taoist Wisdom
Thomas Cleary
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
On Consolation
Michael Ignatieff
This Way Up
Cathrin Bradbury
Who's Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler
Unearthing
Kyo Maclear
Into the Uncut Grass
Trevor Noah
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
Maggie Nelson
Humanly Possible
Sarah Bakewell
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
Falling Back in Love with Being Human
Kai Cheng Thom
Quantum Physics Made Me Do It
Jeremie Harris
The Urge
Carl Erik Fisher
Over the Boards
Hayley Wickenheiser
On Freedom
Maggie Nelson
Joy
Debbie Travis With Jacky Brown, Nutritional Therapist; Photography by Stacey Van Berkel
Welcome Home
Najwa Zebian
Hope
Pope Francis with Carlo Musso; translated by Richard Dixon
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
Kiss the Red Stairs
Marsha Lederman
I Felt the End Before It Came
Daniel Allen Cox
Halal Sex
Sheima Benembarek; Foreword by Mona Eltahawy
Who By Fire
Matti Friedman
Don't Call It a Cult
Sarah Berman
The Lost Art of Scripture
Karen Armstrong
Talking to Strangers
Marianne Boucher
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
P. D. James With a foreword by Val McDermid
God Is in the Crowd
Tal Keinan
Bibi
Anshel Pfeffer
The Book of Joy
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams