Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“The Tao gives birth to the beginning. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to the breath between them,the mixture of clear and turbid. These three breaths divide themselves into Heaven, Earth, and Humankind and together give birth to the ten thousand things.”

Heshang Gong 河上公 202 – 157 BCE
(Ho-shang Kung or "Riverside Sage”)

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Chapters

Chapter 42
Children of the Way

Themes

Continuity

Cause and Effect