"I always figured I just wasn't smart enough for this stuff. Turns out it was never written to be read cold. What a relief."

Ray M., Portland, OR

Taoism Made Simple | The Illustrated Guide to All 81 Chapters

Taoism Made Simple | The Illustrated Guide to All 81 Chapters

Hardcover

 Â (2544+ reviews)
$28.99
$28.99 $49.00
SAVE 40% Sold out

check_circle Sleep without your mind racing

check_circle Let go without giving up

check_circle Slow down and still get ahead

check_circle No Chinese, no background needed

BUNDLE & SAVE

Taoism Made Simple | The Illustrated Guide to All 81 Chapters

Taoism Made Simple | The Illustrated Guide to All 81 Chapters

$28.99
$28.99 $49.00
SAVE 40% Sold out

All 81 chapters explained and illustrated. Every idea, in order, in words you already know.

The Tao. Wu wei. Yin and yang. Simplicity. Harmony. Each one drawn out, then shown in a real situation you will recognise.

Built for ten minutes at a time, so you can read one idea and know what to do with it before you close the book.

Orders leave our warehouse in 1 to 3 days. Arrives at your door in 8 to 11 business days with full tracking.

Hardcover, printed in a large, clear size, and packed to arrive undamaged.

Protected by our 30-day money-back guarantee.

View full details

Finally feel calm without pushing so hard

You push at work. You push at home. The harder you push, the more it pushes back. Nobody ever showed you another way, so you assumed you just were not trying hard enough.

Taoism Made Simple gives you the opposite idea in plain English. It is called wu wei. Stop forcing, move with the current, and let the thing come to you. Every idea explained with a picture, so nothing stays vague.

Your days stop fighting you.

check_circle You were never doing too little. You were doing too much.

Understand what the Tao Te Ching is actually saying

Lao Tzu wrote in riddles on purpose. You read a line about water, nodded, and still could not say what it meant. He wrote for students with a teacher sitting beside them. You were handed the riddles and no answer key.

This ancient book puts the teacher back on the page. Yin and yang, so a bad season stops feeling permanent. Simplicity, so the choices get lighter. Harmony, so difficult people cost you less. Every idea drawn out in pictures.

You close it knowing what to do tomorrow.

check_circle It was never too deep for you. It was never explained to you.

check_circle Every riddle, answered on the same page.

A new translation was never going to fix it

About 5,000 Chinese characters across 81 chapters. More English versions than any book but the Bible. You still closed it without knowing what it meant. Short was never the problem.

  Regular Tao Te Ching
Written in words you already know
Drawings that show the meaning
Wu wei, yin and yang, harmony
Tells you where it fits in your week
The original Chinese text

12,410+ people finally got past chapter one

92%

said this was the first version they actually finished

87%

could explain an idea in their own words

90%

used something from it in real life that same day

Based on a survey of our first 1,800 readers.

  • Finally something that asked for less!

    I've done the trackers, the 5am alarms, the routines that die by day nine. Every single one wanted more out of me and I always ended up feeling worse than when I started. This one asks for almost nothing. One page in the morning, and I've kept it going since spring.

    Dale W, USA

  • I finally know what he's saying!

    I've had the Tao Te Ching since college and opened it maybe fifty times. Beautiful lines I could never explain to anyone, including myself. This puts the meaning right next to the page, and it's the first time any of it actually landed. Read it through twice already.

    Ray M, USA

  • It fixed something with my son.

    My son and I had been circling the same argument for two years and I kept trying to win it. There's a chapter about stepping back that I read on a Tuesday morning. He called that night and I just listened. First conversation in a long time that didn't end badly.

    Carol B, USA

    Frequently Asked Questions

    No, and that matters. This is a guide that walks you through it. The Tao Te Ching has been put into English hundreds of times, and this is not another attempt at that. This takes the ideas inside it and lays them out so you actually follow them.

    Nothing at all. Most people who buy this have never read a page of it. It starts at the beginning and assumes you know nothing, so there is no background to catch up on.

    Every major idea in Taoism is in here, in order, from the first to the last. Nothing is skipped. All 81 chapters. The language is simpler. The ideas are not.

    Taoism is a philosophy about how to live. There is nothing to join and nothing to worship. Plenty of our readers are Christian, Jewish, or nothing at all, and read this next to whatever else they believe.

    That is most of our readers. Almost all of them tell us they had read it before and never once knew what it was getting at. Owning it and following it turned out to be two different things.

    Not in the usual way. There are no steps, no system, no habits to keep up with. It teaches an older idea that says the opposite, and most people find it easier to hold onto because of that.

    Yes. Hardcover, illustrated throughout, printed large and clear. Every order is checked before it leaves us and packed so it arrives undamaged.

    There is no set pace. Most people read a little at a time and come back to it. You can also open it at any page and read just that one.

    Thirty days, full refund, no questions asked. Send us one message and we will take care of it.