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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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Showing posts with label 16. Decay and Renewal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 16. Decay and Renewal. Show all posts

16. Decay and Renewal


Empty the self completely;
Embrace perfect peace.
The world will rise and move;
Watch it return to rest.
All the flourishing things
Will return to their source.

This return is peaceful;
It is the flow of nature,
An eternal decay and renewal.
Accepting this brings enlightenment,
Ignoring this brings misery.

Who accepts nature's flow becomes all-cherishing;
Being all-cherishing he becomes impartial;
Being impartial he becomes magnanimous;
Being magnanimous he becomes natural;
Being natural he becomes one with the Way;
Being one with the Way he becomes immortal:
Though his body will decay, the Way will not.
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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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