Tao Te Ching
400 BC · 144 pages
Water wears down stone, and the way that can be spoken is not the eternal way. Eighty-one verses on yielding, emptiness, and governing least have shaped Chinese thought for twenty-four hundred years.
★ 6.7
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Cold Mountain Poems
800 · 256 pages
A recluse calling himself Cold Mountain scratched more than three hundred poems onto rocks in Tang China, plain about hunger, cold, and the folly of ambition. Kerouac dedicated The Dharma Bums to him.
★ 6.6