The Tao That Can Be Spoken: Reading Thomas Alongside the Tao Te Ching
Most scriptures open by establishing authority. These two open by surrendering it. The Tao Te Ching begins with a warning that its own subject cannot be put into words, and the Gospel of Thomas begins by daring you to figure out what its words mean, with no promise that anyone will help. Two little books, composed on opposite ends of the ancient world with no possibility of contact, and they greet the reader with the same strange bow. ...