This translation is exellent and full of common sense The Tao Te Ching is a companion that accompanies me since the age of fifteen yearsand my six or seven translations latter is certainly the most modern updated, in a poetic language accessible to everyone. I must say it was me sugérée indirectly by Eckart Tolle which is itself a person living example of what Lao Tzu has nevertheless tried to express and that can only be understood in the living silence of no mind. The fact of to have tasted in a moment of grace made me read and reread this book, but I realized that many people do not understand anything and laugh in penssant is a crazy book. I was jubilant; thank you Stephen.