Tao Te Ching

You and I have talked a bit about your love of Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching.

I think when I saw this book coming, I expected to read a lot of recollections of Rick Rubin's history with various artists and times in the production room, and it reads very Taoistly. It's very poetic.

He said, you don't have to do anything because you're already being done.

I started studying numerology and astrology when I was about 14. I read the Bhagavad Gita, Lao Tzu Tao.

The Tao Te Ching was really helpful for me. I've read it a lot.

You asked your cast to read the book of Job. Yes, and the Tao.

And over there is the Tao Te Ching.

I just had the book that probably inspired me the most is the doubty jang Lao two sure and also to 3000 years old I believe and it was the no one really knows but what we believe the story is or at least one of the stories of why the book exists is the old man Lao two was leaving town and a person uh believe who was a guard at the on the outskirts of town said well if you're gonna leave can you like tell me what to do like you were like he's the wise man and he wrote these 81 things just for this one person and that has again I don't know if that's true story we don't know 3000 years ago but it was just a off-handed this is what I know for one person and it after the bible it's the most uh the most published book in the world it's like if you would ask him to put down the one thing he was gonna leave to posterity to summarize all of his beliefs um first up the task probably would have been paralyzing it would have been uh or it would have taken years and years but yeah if that story is true offhandedly doing it for a stranger you know in a few minutes or whatever before you are on your way there's probably something that almost sounds like uh one of the exercises that you have towards the end of the book like hey put everything you know down in in one quick thing but you only have uh 81 spots or whatever