"I highly recommend this translation by Reid and have actually made it required study for my priests in training." - Shifu Michael Rinaldini, Daoist Abbbot and founder of the American Dragon Gate Lineage of Quanzhen Daoism Central to Daoism (Taoism), Zen Buddhism, and neo-Confucianism, Lao Zi\'s "Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching)" may be the single most influential Eastern philosophical text of the last 2500 years, and has since become the second most translated book in the worl. "I highly recommend this translation by Reid and have actually made it required study for my priests in training." - Shifu Michael Rinaldini, Daoist Abbbot and founder of the American Dragon Gate Lineage of Quanzhen Daoism Central to Daoism (Taoism), Zen Buddhism, and neo-Confucianism, Lao Zi\'s "Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching)" may be the single most influential Eastern philosophical text of the last 2500 years, and has since become the second most translated book in the worl