PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT:

     THE ORIGINAL WISDOM OF THE DAO DE JING

                                                 A New Translation and Commentary

                                              by P. J. LASKA

The Dao De Jing is a classic of ancient Chinese philosophy and one of the great wisdom texts of world literature.   To recover its original meaning P. J. Laska sets aside traditional mystical interpretations and views the work as a coherent and profound body of thought concerned with the "constancy" of life's capacity for renewal.  In this new translation the ancient "Way of the Sages" is presented as a bio-centric political ecology teaching that "Great governance does not cut," but acts to protect human communities and the natural world from the "excess, extravagance and extremes" involved in designs for power, wealth and privilege. The accompanying commentary links each verse translation to the holistic understanding of the world-process used by the ancient sages in guiding human activity toward simplicity and integration with nature and away from unsustainable efforts at domination and control.  

Publisher: ECCSBooks                                                                                                                                                     Publication Date: February, 2012.                                                                                                                                  Format & Price:  Paperback, 162 pp.,  $12.95.