Lao Tzu's Tao te Ching is one of the most translated, most read and most surprising books in the world. In brief and illuminating maxims, using the power of the paradox, this simple and profound work illustrates the sequence with which from a mysterious and indefinable Tao all the things of the universe have originated and, among them, man. In the few but very intense pages that make up the Tao te Ching it is possible to find an answer to every problem of life, a solution to every situation, a balm for every wound.