Tao Te Ching
10. Embrace the One
Can you keep the unquiet physical-soul from straying, Hold fast to the Unity, and never quit it? Can you, when...
11. Usefulness of Not-Being
We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel; But it is on the space where there is nothing...
12. Five Colours Blind
The fives colours confuse the eye, The fives sounds dull the ear, The five tastes spoil the palate. Excess of...
13. Honour and Affliction
Favour and disgrace goad as it were to madness; High rank hurts keenly as our bodies hurt.” What does it...
14. The Undifferentiated
Because the eye gazes but can catch no glimpse of it, It is called elusive. Because the ear listens but...
15. The Ancient Masters
Of old those that were the best officers of Court Had inner natures subtle, abstruse, mysterious, penetrating, Too deep to...
16. Stillness
Push far enough towards the Void, Hold fast enough to Quietness, And of the ten thousand things none but can...
17. Good Rulers
Of the highest the people merely know that such a one exists; The next they draw near to and praise....
18. Decline of the Way
It was when the Great Way declined That human kindness and morality arose; It was when intelligence and knowledge appeared...