Table of Contents

Introduction 2
The Life of Laozi 3
The Cultural Platform of Laozi’s Doctrine 8
The Way — Can It Be Spoken 13
Where Does Everything We Can Perceive Come from · 18
Existence and Nothingness 21
The Concepts of “The Small Country Has Few People” and“When the Great Way Is Abandoned, There Arise Benevolence and Righteousness” 25
Chinese Culture Was Built on Confucianism and Taoism Equally 28
What Is the “Way” 29
What Is “Virtue” 32
The Daodejing 36

Part One: The Classic of the Way 37
Chapter 1 38
Chapter 2 41
Chapter 3 44
Chapter 4 46
Chapter 5 48
Chapter 6 50
Chapter 7 51
Chapter 8 53
Chapter 9 56
Chapter 10 58
Chapter 11 60
Chapter 12 62
Chapter 13 64
Chapter 14 66
Chapter 15 68
Chapter 16 71
Chapter 17 73
Chapter 18 75
Chapter 19 77
Chapter 20 79
Chapter 21 83
Chapter 22 86
Chapter 23 88
Chapter 24 90
Chapter 25 92
Chapter 26 94
Chapter 27 96
Chapter 28 99
Chapter 29 102
Chapter 30 105
Chapter 31 108
Chapter 32 111
Chapter 33 113
Chapter 34 115
Chapter 35 117
Chapter 36 119
Chapter 37121

Part Two: The Classic of Virtue 123
 

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