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It: Forty Years in Conversation with the Tao Te Ching
Eighty-one spare, contemporary renderings shaped through one life’s forty-year conversation with the Tao Te Ching.
liff Kayser’s conversation with the Tao Te Ching began in 1984 and continued through four decades of leadership, human development, Polarity Thinking, loss, recovery, and ordinary life.
It gathers his interpretive renderings of all eighty-one chapters in language designed to preserve openness, cadence, and room for the reader’s own encounter. It is not presented as a direct translation from Classical Chinese, but as the record of a sustained relationship with one of humanity’s enduring wisdom texts.
No religious identity is required. Readers may enter these pages through philosophy, poetry, spiritual reflection, leadership, personal development, or simple curiosity.
Words such as “Way” and “Path” can make Lao Tzu’s subject feel more bounded than the reality toward which he points. Kayser uses It as an open pronoun: a word that can point without pretending to contain.
It preserves the eighty-one chapters in their most elemental form. The longer Just Tao It series carries them into conversation with contemporary life through personal reflection, leadership and coaching applications, Polarity Thinking, and Polarity Map® applications.
Together, they form two movements of one conversation: the source renderings carried across forty years, followed by an exploration of what they may ask of us now.
Cliff Kayser is an author, executive coach, leadership educator, and longtime practitioner of Polarity Thinking. His work explores wiser decisions, adult development, interdependent tensions, and the conditions that help people and human systems become more whole.
XperienceIT Press is an author-centered home for individual AND shared writing. It exists to help consequential work become visible while protecting the author’s voice, the integrity of the work, and the relationship between book and reader.
It: Forty Years in Conversation with the Tao Te Ching is its inaugural publication.