The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese ...

Lao Tzu's classic Chinese text from the sixth century BCE has much to teach us today. Lao Tzu meditates on breath, enjoining the reader to practice breathing like a baby; reflects on hsu, or emptiness ...

(RNS) About five months into brain cancer, I’m running into new limits. But they aren’t exactly what I expected. So I’m looking for some meta-advice about how I should react. Glioblastoma, aka GBM, is ...

More than five dozen translations of the Tao te Ching exist in English, making it questionable whether there is a need for yet another. But Stephen Hodge's Tao te Ching: A New Translation and ...

Taoist teachings (along with other Oriental philosophy) seem to calm, stimulate, and refresh me, in part, I think, because they bear such a striking contrast to many of the ideas I was exposed to ...

The Tao Te Ching (circa 4th century BC and later), traditionally attributed to legendary sage Lao Tzu, is the foundational text of Taoism, as well as one of the world’s most important works of ...

“A state may be ruled by measures of correction; weapons of war may be used with crafty dexterity; but the kingdom is made one’s own only by freedom from action and purpose.” –Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” ...