Showing results for title "Tao Te Ching", by author "Lao Tzu" in Literary History & Criticism

The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi, though the text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written—or at least compiled—later than the earliest portions of the Zhuangzi.

The Tao Te Ching is basically everybody's handy guide to Taoism. These eighty-one short chapters cover the ways of the "Way" and lay out all the main ideas of one of the world's most old-school philosophies.The main attraction in the TTC is the Tao itself, which is the great flow of everything—like everything. The Tao is the mysterious, unnamable process through which everything in the Universe happens. Throughout the book, the great Tao is held up as an example of how we all should try to live our lives.View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.orgAll Librivox recordings are in ...

Das Daodejing (Tao Te Ching), das Laozi zugeschrieben wird, ist ein grundlegender taoistischer Text mit 81 kurzen Kapiteln. Es erforscht den Dao (Tao), den grundlegenden, unaussprechlichen Weg des Universums, und De (Te), die Tugend oder Kraft, die durch das Leben in Harmonie mit ihm erlangt wird. Der Text betont Einfachheit, Demut und Nicht-Handeln (wu wei) und plädiert für eine mühelose Ausrichtung auf die Natur anstatt für zwanghafte Kontrolle. Er lehrt, dass Gegensätze – wie Stärke und Schwäche – sich ergänzen und dass wahre Weisheit im Nachgeben statt im Widerstand liegt. Das ...

The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Lao Tzu. The Tao Te Ching is basically everybody's handy guide to Taoism. These eighty-one short chapters cover the ways of the "Way" and lay out all the main ideas of one of the world's most old-school philosophies.The main attraction in the TTC is the Tao itself, which is the great flow of everything—like everything. The Tao is the mysterious, unnamable process through which everything in the Universe happens. Throughout the book, the great Tao is held up as an example of how we all should try to ...