Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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Yi-Ping Ong

1978 CE –

Yi-Ping Ong (c. 1978 - )

Johns Hopkins Assistant Professor, moral and political philosopher, author, human rights activist, and NGO volunteer director; Yi-Ping Ong helped republish the Charles Muller’s translation of the Tao Te Ching and added insightful notes on the chapters, the historical context, and the influence on both Chinese and world culture. A short story she wrote was chosen as one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2003 and her Ph.D. dissertation received a major Harvard University award. Although an academic who attended Columbia, Oxford, and Harvard Universities and is now a university professor; her groundedness in the simplicity of Lao Tzu’s vision seems to maintain an allegiance to the sense over the words, reality over ambition, and wu wei over dualistic gaining ideas.

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Quotes by Yi-Ping Ong (9 quotes)

“When we see the world through the lens of desire, reality becomes fractured into what we want and what we do not want.”

from Tao Te Ching - Introduction and Notes

Chapters: 1. The Unnamed

Themes: Desire Delusion

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“Think about what happens when we think that we must do something to achieve or possess something else […] the intolerance of what is not leads to unhappiness”

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“If we try to complicate our lives, developing clever plans and ambitions, we lose sight of the way in which small, insignificant things actually hold the key to what we seek.”

from Tao Te Ching - Introduction and Notes

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“The Tao Te Ching itself provides an example of wu-wei […] a philosophy that embodies its own message.”

from Tao Te Ching - Introduction and Notes

Themes: Philosophy Wu Wei

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“Taoism is unique among the major schools of Chinese thought in emphasizing the priority of the feminine principle (yin) over the masculine principle (yang).”

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“The sage […] realizes that things arise of their own accord, and not as the result of her own coercion or anxious striving […] so she does not feel any sense of ownership over the result of her actions.”

from Tao Te Ching - Introduction and Notes

Chapters: 2. The Wordless Teachings

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“Get rid of 'holiness' and abandon 'wisdom' - the people will benefit a hundredfold.”

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Themes: Wisdom

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“One who desires victory over others perpetuates a cycle of resistance and violence that only decrease one’s likelihood of survival.”

from Tao Te Ching - Introduction and Notes

Chapters: 69. No Enemy

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“Confucianism is primarily concerned with rites or propriety, a body of rules governing action in virtually every area of life.”

from Tao Te Ching - Introduction and Notes

Themes: Confucianism

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