Anyone got some kind of method for going through Lao Tzu/Laozi's

An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy by JeeLoo Liu

>reading Eastern "philosophy"

My method is putting that garbage down and picking up the Greeks.

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>>9434737
Read this first. And then Te of Piglet. I had no problems with Tao Te Ching but I read those first. What exactly are you struggling with?

>>9435108
>He doesn't recognize taoism as the god tier philosophy that it is
>M-muh greeks

Way to out yourself as a pleb

Friendly reminder none of what Nietzsche wrote about buddhism applies to taoism

>>9435204
Greek philosophers were developing scientific methods and logic to uncover the truth while Eastern philosophers were content with meaningless mysticism.

>>9435259
>uncover the truth

>>9435259
>This dude's philosophy he spent his whole life developing is invalid because he didn't also measure things
Uhh.. what?

>>9435259
>I don't read eastern philosophy but I definitely know it's all just meaningless mysticism
contrarian edgelord pls go

think of it as a series of maxims with a canon of commentaries that apply it to a number of "cases"

except 99.99% of these commentaries will never be translated to english

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>>9434737
Read multiple translations. See pic. Chinese literature is so vague that you need to see it from as many angles as possible.

(This is why the Chinese write great poetry and lousy instruction manuals.)

>>9434737

As the other anon said above me, read multiple translations. You could also read secondary literature to explain certain concepts to you.

The semi-equivalent of Cambridge companions in eastern philosophy are the Dao Companions series. Something like "The Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy" would be useful to you. There are books out there that cover specific concepts as well. For the concept of wuwei, Slingerland's "Effortless Action: Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China" is good. You'd also want to read these SEP entries:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/daoism
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laozi/

I would also read some other primary sources that are based around religious daoism. like "Early Daoist Scriptures" published by UC Press, and "The Taoist Experience: An Anthology" published by SUNY press.

>>9435259

>Eastern philosophers were content with meaningless mysticism

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/school-names/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-epistemology/

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>>9434737
I read it on mushrooms, made a lot more sense

Whole book nicely translated :
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html