Lao-tzu's Taoteching: with selected commentaries of the past 2,000 years

Cover
Title Page
Note to Reader
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Lao-tzu’s Taoteching
	1 The way that becomes a way
	2 All the world knows beauty
	3 Bestowing no honors
	4 The Tao is so empty
	5 Heaven and Earth are heartless
	6 The valley spirit that doesn’t die
	7 Heaven is eternal and Earth is immortal
	8 The best are like water
	9 Instead of pouring in more
	10 Can you keep your crescent soul from wandering
	11 Thirty spokes converge on a hub
	12 The five colors make our eyes blind
	13 Favor and disgrace come with a warning
	14 We look but don’t see it
	15 The great masters of ancient times
	16 Keeping emptiness as their limit
	17 During the High Ages people knew they were there
	18 When the Great Way disappears
	19 Get rid of wisdom and reason
	20 Get rid of learning and problems will vanish
	21 The appearance of Empty Virtue
	22 The incomplete become whole
	23 Whispered words are natural
	24 Those who tiptoe don’t stand
	25 Imagine a nebulous thing
	26 Heavy is the root of light
	27 Good walking leaves no tracks
	28 Recognize the male
	29 Trying to govern the world with force
	30 Use the Tao to assist your lord
	31 Weapons are not auspicious tools
	32 The Tao remains unnamed
	33 Those who know others are perceptive
	34 The Tao drifts
	35 Hold up the Great Image
	36 What you would shorten
	37 The Tao makes no effort at all
	38 Higher Virtue isn’t virtuous
	39 Of those that became one in the past
	40 The Tao moves the other way
	41 When superior people hear of the Way
	42 The Tao gives birth to one
	43 The weakest thing in the world
	44 Which is more vital
	45 Perfectly complete it seems deficient
	46 When the Tao is present in the world
	47 Without going out your door
	48 Those who seek learning gain every day
	49 Sages have no mind of their own
	50 Appearing means life
	51 The Way begets them
	52 There’s a maiden in the world
	53 Were I sufficiently wise
	54 What you plant well can’t be uprooted
	55 He who possesses virtue in abundance
	56 Those who know don’t talk
	57 Use directness to govern a country
	58 Where the government stands aloof
	59 In governing people and caring for Heaven
	60 Ruling a great state
	61 A great state is a watershed
	62 The Tao is creation’s sanctuary
	63 Act without acting
	64 It’s easy to rule while it’s peaceful
	65 The ancient masters of the Way
	66 The reason the sea can govern a hundred rivers
	67 The world calls me great
	68 In ancient times
	69 In warfare there is a saying
	70 My words are easy to understand
	71 To understand yet not understand
	72 When people no longer fear authority
	73 Daring to act means death
	74 If people no longer fear death
	75 The reason people are hungry
	76 When people are born
	77 The Way of Heaven
	78 Nothing in the world is weaker than water
	79 In resolving a great dispute
	80 Imagine a small state with a small population
	81 True words aren’t beautiful
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