The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 1
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 2
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 3
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 4
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 5
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 6
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 7
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 8
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 9
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 10
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 11
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 12
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 13
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 14
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 15
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 16
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 17
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 18
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 1
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 20
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 21
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 22
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 23
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 24
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Taoist Poetry
The Tao And Its Characteristics Chapter 37
三十七
Lao-Tzu
The Tao in its regular course does nothing (for the sake of doing it),
and so there is nothing which it does not do.
If princes and kings were able to maintain it,
all things would of themselves be transformed by them.
If this transformation became to me an object of desire,
I would express the desire by the nameless simplicity.
Simplicity without a name
Is free from all external aim.
With no desire, at rest and still,
All things go right as of their will.
Translator: James Legge
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