Tao Te Ching

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Tao Te Ching - Introduction and Notes

By Lao Tzu
Trans: Charles Muller

Translated by Charles Muller with introduction and notes by Yi-Ping Ong
Fresh, clean, and clear; this translation looks at Lao Tzu’s words from a certain perspective but from one open and easier to understand than most. Instead of using a title for the chapters, it uses the first phrase of each printed in large letters on the page just before each poem. The clarity and simplicity makes many meaning more clear but may also obscure some of the deeper ones.


Quotes from Tao Te Ching - Introduction and Notes

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

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Themes: Confucianism

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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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“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.”

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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.”

Chapters: 69. No Enemy

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

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Themes: Philosophy Wu Wei

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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.”

Chapters: 2. The Wordless Teachings

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

Chapters: 1. The Unnamed

Themes: Desire Delusion

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