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The Poet Seers » Lao Tzu » Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching

tao te ching

Selections from the Tao Te Ching

  • 1 – The Tao that can be trodden
  • 2 – The Beauty of the Beautiful
  • 3 – Keep the People from Rivalry
  • 4 – The Emptiness of a Vessel
  • 5 – Heaven and Earth
  • 6 – The Valley Spirit
  • 7 – Heaven is Long-Enduring
  • 8 – The Highest Excellence
  • 9 – A Vessel Unfilled
  • 10 – Can You Coax Your mind?
  • 11 – The Thirty Spokes
  • 12 – Colour’s Five Hues
  • 13 – Favour and Disgrace
  • 14 – We Look and We do not See
  • 15 – Who can Make the Muddy Water Clear?
  • 16 – The State of Vacancy
  • 17 – The Rulers
  • 18 – When Harmony No Longer Prevailed
  • 19 – Discard our Wisdom
  • 20 – I Alone Seem Dull
  • 38 – The Master Does Nothing
  • 81 – The More He Does for Others

 

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(photo top: Kedar)

  • Tao Te Ching
    • 1 – The Tao That can be Trodden
    • 10 – Can You Coax Your mind?
    • 10 – In Loving the People
    • 11 – The Thirty Spokes
    • 12 – Colour’s Five Hues
    • 13 – Favour and Disgrace
    • 14 – We Look and We do not See
    • 15 – Who can Make the Muddy Water Clear?
    • 16 – The State of Vacancy
    • 17 – The Rulers
    • 18 – When Harmony No Longer Prevailed
    • 19 – Discard our Wisdom
    • 2 – The Beauty of the Beautiful
    • 2 – Things as Beautiful
    • 20 – I Alone Seem Dull
    • 3 – Keep the People from Rivalry
    • 38 – The Master Does Nothing
    • 4 – The Emptiness of a Vessel
    • 5 – Heaven and Earth
    • 6 – The Valley Spirit
    • 7 – Heaven is Long-Enduring
    • 8 – The Highest Excellence
    • 81 – The More He Does for Others
    • 9 – A Vessel Unfilled