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    Tao Te Ching
    Tao Te Ching
    Tao Te Ching
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    Tao Te Ching

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    Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the "Tao Te Ching" llods at the basic predicatment of being alive and gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit. This book is about wisdom in action. It teaches how wo work for the good with the efforless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao (the basic principle of the universe) and applies equally to good government and sexual love, to childrearing, business, and ecology.

    The Tao Te Ching is the most widely traslated book in world literature, after the Bible. Yet the gemlike lucidity of the original has eluded most previous translations, and they have obscured some of its central ideas.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOregan Publishing
    Release dateDec 10, 2017
    ISBN9782377938407
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    Lao Tzu

    Lao Tzu is the reputed founder of Taoism, but there is little evidence that he actually existed. He is said to have been a contemporary of Confucius and to have served as curator of the dynastic archives until retiring to the mythical K’un-lun mountains.

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      Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

      Tao Te Ching

      Laozi

      (Translator: James Legge)

      Published: -600

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      The Tao that can be described is not the enduring and unchanging Tao.

      The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.

      (Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth;

      (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mother of all things.

      Always without desire we must be found,

      If its deep mystery we would sound;

      But if desire always within us be,

      Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

      Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names.

      Together we call them the Mystery.

      Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful.

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      All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is;

      they all know the skill of the skilful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what the want of skill is.

      So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other;

      that difficulty and ease produce the one (the idea of) the other;

      that length and shortness fashion out the one the figure of the other;

      that (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other;

      that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being before and behind give the idea of one following another.

      Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech.

      All things spring up, and there is not one which declines to show itself;

      they grow, and there is no claim made for their ownership;

      they go through their processes, and there is no expectation (of a reward for the results).

      The work is accomplished, and there is no resting in it (as an achievement).

      The work is done, but how no one can see;

      'Tis this that makes the power not cease to be.

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      Not to value and employ men of superior ability is the way to keep the people from rivalry among themselves;

      not to prize articles which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming thieves;

      not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds from disorder.

      Therefore the sage, in the

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