The I Ching is based on the number 2, with its 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 (2 6) = 64 hexagrams. To Pythagoras, who understood Zero and taught It and to Chuang Tzu, the ideal poetic student. All rights reserved.Īcknowledgments: The hundreds of prior translations, especially that by Arthur Waley. The short text consists of 81 brief chapters, or verses.Įvery day we issue a "verse of the day" for contemplation, in two leading English translations, that nevertheless differ substantially, and since December 8 th 2013, we have a radically different third translation:Ī Post New-Age Approach to Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, published by courtesy of the translator and interpreter. It was written around the 6 th century BC by the sage Lao Tzu. *) The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic. Touching one verse here brings fulfillment. The Great Being, so great, may be formless The Well of healing water appears partly empty That excels in giving and completing everything (translation by Derek Lin, 2006)įools take nothingness to be just as it hides.įools laugh that in Zero is all, outside it is inside it. The great music is imperceptible in sound If they do not laugh, it would not be the Tao They sometimes keep it and sometimes lose it Yet it nourishes and completes all things.
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