The Way of Life Tao Te Ching: The Classic Translation

by Tzu, Lao; Blakney, R. B.

• ISBN13: 9780451527943
• ISBN10: 0451527941
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

Eighty-one poems present the sacred teachings of Taoism, including simple living, contentment, and prizing culture.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	13	(121)
Book of Odes	13	(4)
Confucius	17	(3)
Mo Ti	20	(1)
Shang Yang and the Legalists	21	(3)
Yin-Yang	24	(1)
Tao Te Ching	25	(7)
Chinese Mystics	32	(5)
Key Concepts	37	(16)
The Poems
There are ways	53	(1)
Since the world	54	(1)
If those who are excellent	55	(1)
The Way is a void	56	(1)
Is then the world unkind?	57	(1)
The valley spirit	58	(1)
The sky is everlasting	59	(1)
The highest goodness	60	(1)
To take all you want	61	(1)
Can you govern your soul?	62	(1)
Thirty spokes	63	(1)
The five colors	64	(1)
Favor, like disgrace	65	(1)
They call it elusive	66	(1)
The excellent masters	67	(1)
Touch ultimate emptiness	68	(1)
As for him who is highest	69	(1)
The mighty Way declined	70	(1)
Get rid of the wise men	71	(1)
Be done with rote learning	72	(1)
The omnipresent Virtue	73	(1)
The crooked shall be made straight	74	(1)
Sparing indeed is nature	75	(1)
On tiptoe	76	(1)
Something there is	77	(1)
The heavy is foundation	78	(1)
A good runner	79	(1)
Your masculine nature	80	(1)
As for those who would take	81	(1)
To those who would help	82	(1)
Weapons at best	83	(2)
The Way eternal	85	(1)
It is wisdom	86	(1)
O the great Way o'erflows	87	(1)
Once grasp the great Form	88	(1)
What is to be shrunken	89	(1)
The Way is always still	90	(1)
A man of highest virtue	91	(1)
These things in ancient times	92	(1)
The movement of the Way	93	(1)
On hearing of the Way	94	(1)
The Way begot one	95	(1)
The softest of stuff	96	(1)
Which is dearer?	97	(1)
Most perfect	98	(1)
When the Way rules	99	(1)
The world may be known	100	(1)
The student learns	101	(1)
The Wise Man's Mind	102	(1)
On leaving life	103	(1)
The Way brings forth	104	(1)
It began with a matrix	105	(1)
When I am walking	106	(1)
Set firm in the Way	107	(1)
Rich in Virtue	108	(1)
Those who know	109	(1)
Govern the realm	110	(1)
Listlessly govern	111	(1)
For ruling men	112	(1)
Rule a large country	113	(1)
The great land	114	(1)
Like the gods	115	(1)
Act in repose	116	(1)
A thing that is still	117	(1)
Those ancients	118	(1)
How could the rivers	119	(1)
Everywhere, they say	120	(1)
A skillful soldier	121	(1)
The strategists	122	(1)
My words are easy	123	(1)
To know that you are ignorant	124	(1)
If people do not dread	125	(1)
A brave man	126	(1)
The people do not fear	127	(1)
The people starve	128	(1)
Alive, a man is supple	129	(1)
Is not God's Way like a bow?	130	(1)
Nothing is weaker than water	131	(1)
How can you think?	132	(1)
The ideal land	133	(1)
As honest words	134