"A twenty-first-century form of ancient wisdom . . . Mitchell's flights, his paradoxes, his wonderful riffs are brilliant and liberating." -Pico IyerThe most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu'sTao Te Ching, orBook of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the phenomenal success of his own version of theTao Te Ching, renowned scholar and translator Stephen Mitchell has composed the innovativeThe Second Book of the Tao. Drawn from the work of Lao-tzu's disciple Chuang- tzu and Confucius's grandson Tzu-ssu,The Second Book of the Taocollects the freshest, most profound teachings from these two great students of the Tao to offer Western readers a path into reality that has nothing to do with east or west, but everything to do with truth. With his own illuminating commentary alongside each adapta­tion, at once explicating and complementing the text, Mitchell makes the ancient...