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b'We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we\'ll read from the "Tao Te Ching". This Chinese classic text is traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi. The text\'s authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The "Tao Te Ching" has multiple translations, in general "Tao" means "the way" or "the path", here\'s some examples of different opening lines:\\xa0\\n\\n"The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao."\\n\\nTranslated by James Legge (1891)\\xa0\\n\\n"The Tao-Path is not the All-Tao. The Name is not the Thing named."\\n\\nTranslated by Aleister Crowley (1918)\\xa0\\n\\n"The tao that can be told, is not the eternal Tao."\\n\\nTranslated by Stephen Mitchell (1988)\\xa0\\n\\n"If you can talk about it,it ain\'t Tao."\\n\\nTranslated by Ron Hogan (1994)\\xa0\\n\\n"The way you can go, isn\'t the real way."\\n\\nTranslated by Ursula Le Guin (1998)\\xa0\\n\\n\\nTo unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to\\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\\n\\u2014 read by \'N\' \\u2014\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'