Tao Te Ching LFS introduction

The Tao Te Ching

Alan and Barbara have spent a great deal of time over the past several months studying the Tao Te Ching since Alan made the unexpected discovery that this classic text was written about the nine soultypes.

This discovery led to searching out the translations that best express the different soultypes. They were then inspired to translate the Tao Te Ching. The New Equations website has a more complete description of this process, and includes recordings of both Alan and Barbara reading the text. They have found that the impact of the Tao Te Ching is strongest when listen to, so the words can wash over us and into our soul.

Below is what Alan and Barbara wrote.
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Hi everyone,

A few months ago we discovered that the Tao Te Ching was written about the human soul and how to live life from a soulful place. By reorganizing the 81 chapters into 9 groups of nine chapters each, we could see that each section seemed to address one of the soultypes.

The Tao Te Ching is known to be a book about how to live life in a harmonious way with nature, but until our discovery and retranslation, the text could not clearly address how to live from soul. This is because a book can address the soul only when it takes into account the fact that humanity is made up of the nine soultypes and their differences. The Tao Te Ching is the only piece of literature that we have found that does this. It is a very exciting discovery.

Our translation brought to each chapter not only more information about the soultypes, but a powerful communication and energy that was absent before. The Tao Te Ching expresses the soultype wisdom in ways that we have strived to express it but were unable to. It is a most remarkable and concise text (around 5, 000 Chinese characters). It is at least 2,500 old.

Our title translation:

Tao=The Way
Te= The Action of the Soul
Ching=Classic Book

We are continuing to work on our translation of the chapters and are putting them on the the website as they are completed and updated. Each chapter is linked to a streaming audio file of each of us reading the chapter.

We believe that the Tao Te Ching is indeed the missing 'owners manual' for humanity. Since we discovered how it correlated to the soultypes last January, and began the process of translating and absorbing it, many remarkable things have happened.

Alan: My body has changed more since January than at any other time in my life. My movement is freer, I am standing taller, I have lost weight, and my body feels more supple. I can sprint without warming up. I feel at least ten years younger.

Barbara: The Tao filled in gaps in my understanding of the soultypes. More things make sense now than did before. I am also able to recover more quickly when I am in turmoil.

We feel that the Tao Te Ching was meant to be transmitted orally. It needs to be absorbed by the body so that you can make sense of it on a cellular level. It is okay to read it but the true value comes from absorbing it. (When Alan read the nine chapters that address soultype 9 to Jake, who is a soultype 9, Jake said that he felt like he had just attended a three day workshop and he took the next day off from work to metabolize his experience.

You need to absorb all 81 chapters but your soultype's chapters have a special significance for you. We recommend that you listen on a regular basis. In the fall we expect to publish a book and CD, The Way of the Action of the Soul: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching by Alan Sheets and Barbara Tovey.

Please email us about your experience of listening to the audio clips.

All the best,
Alan and Barbara

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