The Tao Te Ching Interpreted & Explained

by Dr. Daniel Condron

Why people are reading this book.....

"My experience of the Tao Te Ching is one of truth and light moving through my entire being. The awareness of creative energy and infinity it brings to me is simple and profound. The Tao is truly the enlightened Way and Dr. Daniel Condron is truly the master teacher.”
- Talina Madonna Woods, 24-year-old College of Metaphysics student, vocalist

“The truth of the Way or the Tao - that is so poetically and poignantly expressed in this book - offered me a direct perception of my own true nature. No book before has stimulated in me such an experience. I am so very grateful to have been here at the time of its movement out into the world.”
- Chris Sheehan, College of Metaphysics student, artist

“A remarkable vision of unlocking human potential, a practical approach to peace of mind. The essence of the Tao is given in a way everyone can use. Simple and powerful.”
- Matthew D. Marion, 25-year-old graduate teacher at the College of Metaphysics, former mortgage broker

“It seems as if Lao Tzu himself has returned to give us all the rest of the story! Dr. Condron’s interpretation and explanation of the Tao flows seamlessly after each passage, like a new spring feeding an old river, giving it life, depth, and clarity. Every time I read this book, my mind becomes very still, inward, and I have hope of understanding the deepest mysteries of life and giving them simply to my new child.”
- Paul Madar, 38 year-old teacher, recording artist, audio and video engineer, development director, photographer

“Dr. Condron’s poetic interpretation is a beautiful work of the soul. This book has given me a way to see the beauty of receptive energy and has opened my heart and mind to the peace and stillness of Universal Truth.”
- Erika Scholz, graduate student and teacher of English as a Second Language

“As I experienced this book I felt an opening sensation from my heart area. I have begun to look at my world differently. I am noticing how everyone and everything is connected and how the receptive quality and aggressive quality works together hand in hand. After each passage I am filled with a stillness in my mind, heart, body, and soul.”
-Laurie Biswell, 31-year-old college student, sales associate

“The powerful images in both the Tao and the interpretation penetrate my consciousness in the most subtle and beautiful ways. This book gives me room to breathe and relax and become whole.”
- Christine Madar, 35, full time volunteer

“The experience that I have with hearing the Tao is one of resonance. I can almost imagine myself as being the boarder guard asking Lao Tzu to teach me. It invokes in me a feeling that is mysterious and stirs a longing in me for the peace that it can lead to. In joy you shall depart, in peace you shall return. The Tao is my way home to peace.”
- John Harrison, 46-year-old computer programmer and instructor

“The writing is like a heavenly poem that draws me into a still lake and I see what is within my soul.”
-Tad Messenger, 55-year-old School of Metaphysics teacher and student with a Masters degree in geology

“Learning about the Tao has birthed new awarenesses in me. I have a greater understanding of the power of receptivity. I am receiving enlightenment more as well as aggressively moving towards the ideal.”
- Dave Rosemann, 24-year-old music promoter

“The statements of truth are clear, direct and refreshing. Hearing this book read out loud feels like a cool dip in a clear lake. It is soul-nourishing and peaceful, centering and enriching.”
-Laurel Clark, 46-year-old teacher, minister, counselor

“I have read many translations and commentaries on the Tao Te King and never has it been so clear, simple, and transformative as these written by Dr. Condron.”
- Dr. Pamela Blosser, President, School of Metaphysics

Read a selection from this book

One

A Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way
A Name that can be named is not the Eternal Name

Tao is both named and nameless
The Named is the Mother of ten thousand things

For this reason,
A still mind in a thought-free state may perceive
the mind’s essence and one’s true and permanent
Nature
A busy mind filled with thoughts sees only
the outer forms of mind and the world

This pair of essence and manifestation are
connected at the source
They differ in what we call them
Yet this unity and oneness
is the mystery of the original principle
The doorway to the knowledge of one’s true nature

One of the qualities of our physical universe is that it is temporary. The physical universe is designed to be a temporary school or place of learning for the real and lasting identity that is the individual. This real identity has been known throughout the ages as I AM.

The first creation of the Creator was LIGHT. Following the First Creation came the creation of individualized units of LIGHT known as I AM or plural I AMs.

All creation begins as a thought. Before any creation takes on physical form it is first a thought. The original LIGHT of creation was formless. To name something is to separate and identify its form as separate and distinct from other forms.

In the Bible the Book of Genesis, chapter one verse three states, “And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.” Also in Genesis 2:19, “And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name.”