This site is a commentary and study guide to the Dao De Jing.

Click the title
Follow your Nose (Dao) Follow your Heart (De) Book (Jing)
to open and download.

Advanced students may wish to access individual chapters
Chapters links
which may be chosen from the table found
on page 5 of DDJ.pdf; the link takes you there.
Appendices are also linked on this page.

The work is an extension of the Mobilewords Limited Tao Te Ching
site containing 100 English translations and interpretations of Lao Tzu.

Tor Fosnaes, a writer and publisher in Newfoundland studied Dao for 60 years. Follow your Nose Follow your Heart Book shows how DDJ is a guide for individuals living in Dao; with all the benefits. The commentaries are informal interpretations laying out the gist of the DDJ text for each of us; in our small corners.

Craig Squires, a student of philosophy and Dao practice for more than 40 years, learned to read Chinese in order to fully grok the DDJ. He chose the example sentences that he felt closely matched the intent of the text and provided detailed commentaries on important aspects of what the DDJ tells us; if we've a mind to listen.

A Fosnaes-Squires Collaboration published under a Creative Commons license.
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