Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $9.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Tao Te Ching
    Tao Te Ching
    Tao Te Ching
    Ebook86 pages1 hour

    Tao Te Ching

    By Lao Tzu

    ()

    Switch to audiobook
    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The Tao Te Ching, is a Chinese classic text. The text's true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates the bulk of the text as having been written, or at least compiled later than the earliest portions of the Zhuangzi.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAegitas
    Release dateApr 20, 2017
    ISBN9781773137520
    Author

    Lao Tzu

    Lao-Tzu was a philosopher and poet of ancient China who lived in the fifth century BC. He is known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism.

    Read more from Lao Tzu

    Related to Tao Te Ching

    Related ebooks

    General Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Sound Of Silence

      Jun 24, 2020

      The Sound Of Silence
      5 min read

    • Article

      I Vow Not to Burn Out

      Sep 27, 2022

      I Vow Not to Burn Out
      4 min read

    • Article

      Nature

      Jun 19, 2023

      In an article published last year in the Scientific American, contemplating developments in our search for extraterrestrial life, Andrea Gawrylewski writes, “Given the math, it seems impossible that we humans would be the only living things in the co

      3 min read

    • Article

      Sweeping My Heart

      Sep 18, 2018

      Sweeping My Heart
      4 min read

    • Article

      Christmas Island crabs

      Nov 28, 2019

      Christmas Island crabs
      1 min read

    • Article

      Challenging Orthodox Science

      Jul 15, 2021

      TO SEND REVIEW COPIES, CONTACT THE BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR AT [email protected] Imants Barušs Imprint Academic 2021 Pb, 228pp, £14.95, ISBN 9781788360418 The late William Corliss was very fond of a particular quotation from the 19th-century psyc

      11 min read

    • Article

      Why Don't You?

      Apr 5, 2020

      Why Don't You?
      1 min read

    • Article

      Your Own Oracle Cards

      Jan 30, 2020

      Your Own Oracle Cards
      1 min read

    • Article

      Mystic Snippets

      Dec 21, 2021

      Mystic Snippets
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Beatrice Kilat

      Dec 13, 2019

      By that I mean that he’s a little practical and a little dreamy, a little horny and a little precious, which is just how I like a person. The post A Year in Reading: Beatrice Kilat appeared first on The Millions.

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Stranger in Town

      Jul 29, 2020

      A Stranger in Town
      3 min read

    • Article

      On Telernce

      Apr 22, 2019

      On Telernce
      6 min read

    • Article

      Perception

      Nov 7, 2020

      Even the simple act which we describe as ‘seeing someone we know’ is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him whic

      3 min read

    • Article

      For All We Know!

      Apr 30, 2019

      For All We Know!
      11 min read

    • Article

      ‘Awake’ VI

      Nov 30, 2020

      ‘Awake’ VI
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Great Order

      Sep 30, 2021

      The Great Order
      10 min read

    • Article

      Vague? No. Ungraspable? Yes.

      Mar 7, 2023

      Vague? No. Ungraspable? Yes.
      9 min read

    • Article

      Balance

      Apr 22, 2019

      What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path. On t

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Art Of Listening

      Jun 30, 2020

      The Art Of Listening
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Classic of Filial Piety (Xiaojing)

      Jan 27, 2020

      Once, when Zhong Ni was unoccupied, and his disciple Zeng was sitting by in attendance on him, the Master said, “The ancient kings had a perfect virtue and all-embracing rule of conduct, through which they were in accord with all under heaven. By the

      8 min read

    • Article

      Waking Up in Dark Times

      Aug 4, 2020

      Waking Up in Dark Times
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Confident Heart/Mind (Hsin-Hsin Ming)

      Jun 3, 2020

      The Great Way is not difficult If you are easy in your preferences. When grasping and repelling are both absent Everything becomes clear and undisguised. In the slightest resistance, however Heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. The Way is perfe

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Everyday Life

      Dec 28, 2018

      The Everyday Life
      4 min read

    • Article

      ‘What Seek Ye?’

      Jul 31, 2020

      ‘What Seek Ye?’
      8 min read

    • Article

      Beyond the Veil

      Feb 27, 2020

      The woman known as “Mother Julian of Norwich” lived from around 1342 to 1416 and wrote the first known surviving book in the English language by a woman: Revelations of Divine Love. During a period of terrible health at age 30, where she was consider

      14 min read

    • Article

      Tulca [tul-kah]

      Nov 25, 2021

      Tulca [tul-kah]
      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Tao Te Ching

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

      Tao Te Ching

      Lao Tzu

      Aegitas Logo

      To the best of our knowledge, the text of this work is in the Public Domain in Canada, EU and Australia. 

      However, copyright law varies in other countries, and the work may still be under copyright in the country from which you are accessing this book. It is your responsibility to check the applicable copyright laws in your country before downloading this work.

      Published by Aegitas.

      This book was professionally typeset by publisher.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any others means without permission.

      Aegitas publishing house

      1

      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.

      2

      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.

      3

      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

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1