Taoism

Tao Te Ching

道德經

c. 4th century BCE15 chapters

The foundational text of philosophical Taoism, attributed to Laozi. Eighty-one short chapters on the nature of the Way (Tao) and virtue (Te). From James Legge's public-domain translation (1891).

Chapters

Embodying the Tao

The Nourishment of the Person

The Placid and Contented Nature

The Use of What Has No Substantive Existence

The Unadulterated Influence

The Increase Granted to Humility

Dexterity in Using the Tao

Discriminating Between Attributes

The Exercise of Government

The Transformations of the Tao

Surveying What is Far-off

Thinking in the Beginning

Guarding the Minute

The Three Precious Things

The Manifestation of Simplicity