By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. The Tao Te Ching teaches that you should strive to reduce desires, to be more content with what you have and to trust that the Tao has provided you with what you need. Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of the Tao Te Ching and has created 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today's modern world.

I also think that (given that Jesus took many of his ideas from Buddha) that Dr Dyer should quote more from Buddha and less from Jesus. His other books include the New York Times best sellers The Power of Intention (2004) and 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace (2001). You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Growing up, I felt like I was being groomed to regurgitate information, but was never taught how to be a better human. I plowed straight through it instead of reading one verse and essay a day, and let each one sink in for that day before moving on.This way of thinking is restrictive and severely affects our ability to grow and develop as individuals.

Some of the chapter titles are “Living with Flexibility,” “Living Without Enemies,” and “Living by Letting Go. In fact, the "disease" here is simply a metaphor, not an actual "disease", and surely not the subject matter at all.It took care of everything you needed in your creation and your first nine months of life without any assistance from you. If you think the language issue is divorced from reality, and Dyer can still successfully derive meaning from good translations (though how would he know the quality of a translation in any meaningful manner without the knowledge of the original text?

John's, which focused on positive thinking and motivational speaking techniques, attracted students beyond those enrolled. I played it in my car as I was driving my children all over for swimming lessons, to the park, wherever.Life is full of possibilities and all it takes is going inside and changing your thoughts to thoughts you want to experience. It is a place where you can practice the Tao, and it can be experienced even in the embodied condition.

I’ve also decided to revisit a book of mine from 2007, Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, based on the year I spent studying and living according to Lao-tzu’s wisdom in the way of the Tao te Ching. Takes the Tao Te Ching and transforms it into something we can relate to, with meditations and wonderful "nuggets" of information - bringing this spirituality into my every day life has helped me immensely. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.If you want to listen to a pure and inspiring version of the Tao, I highly recommend Steven Mitchell's book. We can’t see the Tao, but the results of it are all around us: The Tao and those first things are what led to us and everything we can see. I was listening to the beautiful quotations and the magical voice of the author and "beautiful" was all I could say mesmerized by such wise and simple things. But we know, without anyone telling us, that there is no title, degree, or distinguishing label that truly defines us.