Tao Te Ching (Classics)
Tao Te Ching
Interesting detours become less likely. The road has become a treadmill. And once we sharpen our focus on a particular goal or finish line, we can easily slip into judging things, events, people in terms of how they help or hurt us getting to our goal. The whole wide world is cut up into pieces. For those of us in the West, analysis cutting things up into pieces for study is common, as are the ideas of mastery and control.
The Tao confounds or hopes to confound this way of thinking. The only path to serenity.
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The idea of control is illusory and blinds us to other possibilities. The chief virtue to have as a follower of the Tao is patience. The author asks the reader: More difficult for me as a true believer in various causes over the years is the idea that the author expresses in several different ways. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing.
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We all know that it usually impresses Westerners as more than a trifle quietistic. Hence we treat it with condescension as a quaint impractical document of an ancient day when no one bothered much about the progress. Perhaps we do not realize that some of the wisdom of the Tao Teh Ching , which so often reminds one of the Sermon on the Mount, is absolutely necessary for us not only to progress but even to survive.
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About Tao Te Ching In what may be the most faithful translation of the Tao Te Ching , the translators have captured the terse, enigmatic beauty of the original masterpiece without embellishing it with personal interpretation or bogging it down with explanatory notes. Also by Lao Tzu. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Looking for More Great Reads?
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Stay in Touch Sign up. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later. Many Chinese artists, including poets , painters , calligraphers , and gardeners , have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. Its influence has spread widely outside East Asia and it is among the most translated works in world literature. Tao Te Ching is the Wade-Giles romanization of the same name as the pinyin Daodejing and should be pronounced in the same way.
The Chinese characters in the title are:. The first character can be considered to modify the second or can be understood as standing alongside it in modifying the third.
Ancient Chinese books were commonly referenced by the name of their real or supposed author, in this case the "Old Master", [14] Laozi or Lao-tze. The Tao Te Ching has a long and complex textual history. Known versions and commentaries date back two millennia, including ancient bamboo, silk, and paper manuscripts discovered in the twentieth century.
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There is some evidence that the chapter divisions were later additions—for commentary, or as aids to rote memorization—and that the original text was more fluidly organized. The written style is laconic, has few grammatical particles , and encourages varied, contradictory interpretations. The ideas are singular; the style poetic.
The rhetorical style combines two major strategies: The first of these strategies creates memorable phrases, while the second forces to create reconciliations of the supposed contradictions.
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The Tao Te Ching is ascribed to Lao Tzu , whose historical existence has been a matter of scholastic debate. His name, which means "Old Master", has only fueled controversy on this issue. The first reliable reference to Laozi is his "biography" in Shiji 63, tr.
He was an official in the imperial archives, and wrote a book in two parts before departing to the West. Generations of scholars have debated the historicity of Laozi and the dating of the Tao Te Ching. Linguistic studies of the text's vocabulary and rhyme scheme point to a date of composition after the Shi Jing yet before the Zhuangzi. Legends claim variously that Laozi was "born old"; that he lived for years, with twelve previous incarnations starting around the time of the Three Sovereigns before the thirteenth as Laozi.
Some Western scholars have expressed doubts over Lao Tzu's historical existence, claiming that the Tao Te Ching is actually a collection of the work of various authors. Among the many transmitted editions of the Tao Te Ching text, the three primary ones are named after early commentaries. The "Wang Bi Version" has more verifiable origins than either of the above.