Lao Tze- Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching (Traditional Chinese: 道德經 , roughly translatable as The Book of the Way and its Virtue , is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 600 BCE by the Taoist sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court. A careful reading of the text, however, suggests that it is a compilation of maxims sharing similar themes. The text's authenticity, authorship, and date of composition or compilation are still debated.

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01. The Way

The Way that can be experienced is not true;
The world that can be constructed is not true.
The Way manifests all that happens and may happen;
The world represents all that exists and may exist.

To experience without intention is to sense the world;
To experience with intention is to anticipate the world.
These two experiences are indistinguishable;
Their construction differs but their effect is the same.

Beyond the gate of experience flows the Way,
Which is ever greater and more subtle than the world.
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02. Abstraction



When beauty is abstracted
Then ugliness has been implied;
When good is abstracted
Then evil has been implied.

So alive and dead are abstracted from nature,
Difficult and easy abstracted from progress,
Long and short abstracted from contrast,
High and low abstracted from depth,
Song and speech abstracted from melody,
After and before abstracted from sequence.

The sage experiences without abstraction,
And accomplishes without action;
He accepts the ebb and flow of things,
Nurtures them, but does not own them,
And lives, but does not dwell.
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Chapter

  • 01. The Way
  • 02. Abstraction
  • 03. Without Action
  • 04. Limitless
  • 05. Nature
  • 06. Experience
  • 07. Complete
  • 08. Water
  • 09. Retire
  • 10. Harmony
  • 11. Tools
  • 12. Substance
  • 13. Self
  • 14. Mystery
  • 15. Enlightenment
  • 16. Decay and Renewal
  • 17. Rulers
  • 18. Hypocrisy
  • 19. Simplify
  • 20. Wandering
  • 21. Accept
  • 22. Home
  • 23. Words
  • 24. Indulgence
  • 25. Beneath Abstraction
  • 26. Calm
  • 27. Perfection
  • 28. Becoming
  • 29. Ambition
  • 30. Violence
  • 31. Armies
  • 32. Shapes
  • 33. Virtues
  • 34. Control
  • 35. Peace
  • 36. Opposition
  • 37. Tranquillity
  • 38. Ritual
  • 39. Support
  • 40. Motion and Use
  • 41. Following
  • 42. Mind
  • 43. Overcoming
  • 44. Contentment
  • 45. Quiet
  • 46. Horses
  • 47. Knowing
  • 48. Inaction
  • 49. People
  • 50. Death
  • 51. Nurture
  • 52. Clarity
  • 53. Difficult Paths
  • 54. Cultivate Harmony
  • 55. Soft Bones
  • 56. Impartiality
  • 57. Conquer with Inaction
  • 58. No End
  • 59. Restraint
  • 60. Demons
  • 61. Submission
  • 62. Sin
  • 63. Difficulty
  • 64 Care at the Beginning
  • 65. Subtlety
  • 66. Lead by Following
  • 67. Unimportance
  • 68. Compassion
  • 69. Ambush
  • 70. Individuality
  • 71. Limitation
  • 72. Revolution
  • 73. Fate
  • 74. Execution
  • 75. Rebellion
  • 76. Flexibility
  • 77. Need
  • 78. Yielding
  • 79. Reconciliation
  • 80. Utopia
  • 81. The Sage
  • Garden

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