Comment Comment by raincole Honestly, even if you know Chinese, it's very hard to translate Tao Te Ching into English.Hell, it's hard to translate it into Chinese. Even the first paragraph is controversial. For example this rendition says:> The name you can say> isn’t the real name.However, in a 5th century interpretation[0], it's more akin to:> The fame and wealth the mortals praise are not a natural state.(My extremely simplified paraphrasing)[0]: https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=491818 parent raincole 9 months ago
Hell, it's hard to translate it into Chinese. Even the first paragraph is controversial. For example this rendition says:
> The name you can say
> isn’t the real name.
However, in a 5th century interpretation[0], it's more akin to:
> The fame and wealth the mortals praise are not a natural state.
(My extremely simplified paraphrasing)
[0]: https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=491818