Sacred Chao Te Ching

Project Overview

This project is an attempt to re-translate the Tao Te Ching with a zenarchist/discordian bent. Anyone that enjoys this stuff is welcome to help. In the end, it'll be published as a Kopyleft PDF.

Here's how it'll work. Grab a chapter of the Tao Te Ching. If you don't speak chinese (hah!), lift a translation from the web somewhere. Underneath the translation, write your own version of that chapter.

Since this is a wiki, we can all edit each others text until it WORKS.

We'll experiment with a tone until we find the right one. For now, be irreverant, mysterious, wise, or silly. Keep it dense, the Tao Te Ching is a simple book that doesn't need too much explaining. Our translation should be minimalistic. Also, brevity is the soul of wit. :-)

Background Reading Material

Zenarchy: http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/zenarchy.html

Tip: Translators have interpreted the vague chinese scrawlings in different ways. Use multiple translations of the Tao Te Ching to ensure you've got the spirit of the chapter. We don't want to be too loyal to one specific translation...

A translation of the Tao Te Ching: http://home.pages.at/onkellotus/TTK/English_Beck_TTK.html#Kap01 (C)?
Another Translation: http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/taote.htm

Lysergic's Zenarchy Unmanifesto

zenarchy is what you think it is
or this
I come from the void to be thrown into this ocean of chaos, 
  to dance and sing, love and hate, to journey and explore, laugh and cry & to rest + die.
I do not know what is right or what is wrong, but I know what hurts.
I know there is no one who truly understands the universe better then I, 
  and I know I know so very little.
The authorities are so very sure, and I am so very confused, 
  yet I smile contently while they are grey-faced.
The religious tell me that I am a sinner, 
  I tell them if that is true, then I blame god.
The government has lied, cheated and stolen unto me, 
  and so I do unto others what has been done to me.
I am a zenarchist, looking for other zenarchists, are you one?
If you are unsure, you probably are.
I wouldn't know a zenarchist if I were staring at one in the mirror.