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The Tao Te Ching describes the Tao as the source and ideal of all existence: it is unseen, but not transcendent, immensely powerful yet supremely humble, being the root of all things. People have desires and free will (and thus are able to alter their own nature).
“The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and its characteristics”, English translation by James Legge. Scalable text on white, grey or black background. Downloadable as a .txt file. James Legge and the Confucian Classics: Brilliant Scot in the Turmoil of Colonial Hong Kong. 2015. By Marilyn Bowman. An eBook downloadable as a .pdf file.
The Questions of King Milinda, part 2/2 Milindapañha; 37 Zor 1892: E. W. West: Pahlavi Texts, part 4/5 Contents of the Nasks; 38 Hindu 1896: George Thibaut: Vedanta-Sutras, part 2/3 Commentary by Sankaracharya, part 2 of 2; Adhyâya II (Pâda III–IV)–IV; 39 China 1891: James Legge: Texts of Taoism, part 1/2 Tâo Teh King (Tâo Te Ching) of ...
Paronomastically, tao is equated with its homonym 蹈 tao < d'ôg, "to trample," "tread," and from that point of view it is nothing more than a "treadway," "headtread," or "foretread "; it is also occasionally associated with a near synonym (and possible cognate) 迪 ti < d'iôk, "follow a road," "go along," "lead," "direct"; "pursue the right ...
Tao Te Ching chapters 18 and 19 parallel ci ("parental love") with xiao (孝 "filial love; filial piety"). Wing-tsit Chan [3] believes "the first is the most important" of the Three Treasures, and compares ci with Confucianist ren (仁 "humaneness; benevolence"), which the Tao Te Ching (e.g., chapters 5 and 38) mocks.
John Ching Hsiung Wu [a] (also John C.H. Wu; traditional Chinese: 吳經熊; pinyin: Wu Jingxiong) (28 March 1899 – 6 February 1986) was a Chinese jurist and author.He wrote works in Chinese, English, French, and German on Christian spirituality, Chinese literature (including a translation of the Tao Te Ching) and on legal topics.
The Zhuangzi (historically romanized Chuang Tzŭ) is an ancient Chinese text that is one of the two foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching.It was written during the late Warring States period (476–221 BC) and is named for its traditional author, Zhuang Zhou, who is customarily known as "Zhuangzi" ("Master Zhuang").
He wrote several works on the Chinese language, including, in 1866, the first translation into English of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (which he called the Tau Teh King). John Chalmers Chalmers and his wife Helen, taken in Nagasaki