http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taoofwisdom-the-tao-te-ching/id493759939?ls=1&mt=8

It’s amazing how 2,500 years old work succinctly explains the ouster of Libya’s Moammar Khadafy and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak:

From the 75th passage of the Tao Te Ching
“When rulers tax their subjects so that they may feast
Their people become hungry
When rulers only serve their own interests
Their people rebel
When rulers take lives to maintain their own
Their people no longer fear death
When people act without regard of their own lives
They overcome those who value only their own”

From the book’s introduction: “The Tao that can be put down is said to be not the ‘real’ Tao, and this may be the reason why literal translations of the handed down and probably modified Chinese letterings, though sprinkled with profound wisdom here and there, do not capture the beauty, simplicity, and affecting essence of the Tao Te Ching. So with this work, we concentrate not on the words but in the meaning; the message, what is being relayed, behind the words. We do so, sometimes with subtlety, sometimes bluntly, but always as poetry, as the Tao Te Ching is poetry, a poem about the ‘Tao’ or ‘The Way.’ The Way that is beneath all existence.”

Done in beautiful layout, augmented by breathtaking and moving photography, this new work can have a profound influence in our modern society. For the price of a free download, we could all end up a little bit wiser, calmer, and better equipped to deal with Life’s ups and down.