… It’s said Lao-tzu lived sometime between 551-479 BCE. Nothing more conclusive can be said about this. Little is known about him, and some scholars even suggest he may have been a composite of chinese writers of the period whose work was collected under one name. It’s all very murky.
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Translator, Stephen Mitchell says, “…all the information that has come down to us is highly suspect.”
Lao Tzu left no trace other than this book. But for someone who may or may not have existed, he’s made a lasting impression. Mitchell even calls his book, “… one of the wonders of the world.”
Bingo!
–Roshi Bob
NOTE: Work in Progress
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CONTENTS
About Tao Te Ching and Bing!
Other Translations and Interpretations
Tao Te Ching Verses:
- 1. If you talk about it, it’s not Tao.
- 2. A beautiful thing means some things are ugly
- 3. If you inflate some to greatness others diminish
- 4. Tao’s a bottomless well
- 5. Tao has no bias
- 6. Tao is the Great Mother
- 7. The Tao is infinite, eternal
- 8. The highest good is like water
- 9. If you fill a bowl to the brim it will spill
- 10. Coax your mind from its wandering
- 11. We join spokes together in a wheel
- 12. Colors blind eyes
- 13. Success is treacherous as failure
- 14. It can’t be seen when you look
- 15. The Old One’s wisdom is subtle
- 16. Clear your mind of thoughts
- 17. Most preferred:
- 18. Forget Tao
- 19. To multiply happiness
- 20. To end problems, stop thinking
- 21. There’s just one sure harmony
- 22. Accept to be whole
- 23. Spare speech is natural
- 24. Loss of equilibrium is a recipe for disaster
- 25. The inner and outer worlds are unified
- 26. Motion dances upon no motion
- 27. The wise follow the natural way of stealth
- 28. Be a valley
- 29. The world’s naturally sacred
- 30 Lead by way of the Tao
- 31. A weapon is a tool of death
- 32. Naming Tao
- 33. Knowledge, Wisdom, Wealth, Survival
- 34. Great is not what makes Tao tick
- 35. The Form of Forms
Commentary:
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Tao Te Bing! 