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Publisher's Synopsis
Mystery of Dao [道] is a narrative poem in the tercet stanza. It unfolds a private, personal tale of a conscientious wayfarer who tries to find possible relevance of the ancient Chinese books of wisdom on the mysterious and esoteric Dao [道] in the mundane journey of our present workaday life. The tale has two parts: Song 1: 'Inner Voice of a Brook' is a simple fable in which a man converses with a brook. It was inspired by Dao De Jing [道德經]-attributed to the legendary Old Sage: Lao Zi [老子] (6th-5th Century BCE). Song 2: 'Fables of a Dreaming Butterfly' is a fable in which the ancient Chinese sage, Zhuang Zhou, transformed into a dreaming butterfly, converses with a rose. It was inspired by The Inner Chapters of Zhuangzi [莊子]-attributed to Zhuang Zhou [莊周] (c.369 - c.286 BCE).
