Laozi
Tao Te Ching
Layout
Format: PDF. Readable on any device.
- Title in Traditional Chinese
- 道德經
- Languages
- Traditional Chinese and English
- Pages
- about 63
- Edition
- unabridged
Book summary
Attributed to Laozi, this work of Chinese wisdom gathers eighty-one short chapters, somewhere between maxim and poem. It turns on the Tao, the way that can be neither named nor grasped, and on the virtue that follows for those who keep to it. It praises water, emptiness and yielding, and a way of governing by non-action. The text explores restraint, withdrawal and the reversal of ordinary values. Laozi offers less a doctrine than an art of holding back, given here in James Legge's English translation of 1891.
