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Lao Tzu and Tao Te Ching

I still remember Steve introduced the websites about Lao Tzu and Taoism to me,which made me proud,amazed and also embarrassed. Chinese culture is so attractive that I am proud.The foreign friend can even know about Lao Tzu and Taoism,which is hard to understand. I feel amazed ! I myself as a Chinese even know so little about my own culture, which makes me embarrassed. After spending several days searching and reading about Lao Tzu and Taoism, now I post this to let everyone share. Some are just copied from the other websites. Only a little is wrtten by myself. (blushing...)

Lao Tzu and Tao Te Ching
LaoTzu was born in Chu , what is now Henan in about 571 B.C. According to legend Lao Tzu was born after his mother was 81 years pregnant. The boy with white eyebrows, white hair , white and long moustache had an inborn ability to speak. He has been considered the great philosopher and Father of Taoism. It is with the sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage' -- born Li Erh) that the philosophy of Taoism really began. Lao Tzu once worked as keeper of the archives at the imperial court. When he was eighty years old he set out for the western border of China, toward what is now Tibet, saddened and disillusioned that men were unwilling to follow the path to natural goodness. At the border (Hank Pass), a guard, Yin Xi (Yin Hsi), asked Lao Tsu to record his teachings before he left. He then composed in 5,000 characters the Tao Te Ching (The Way and Its Power).
The Tao Te Ching, , the " Classic of the Way and Virtue" (or, the "Power of the Way," etc.), is divided into two books. An interpretation has now been offered that the two books are intended to be about the Tao [ ] and Te [ ]. Book I does begin with statements about the Tao, and Book II with statements about Te.
In Lao Tzu's view things were said to create "unnatural" action (wei) by shaping desires (yu). The process of learning the names (ming) used in the doctrines helped one to make distinctions between good and evil, beautiful and ugly, high and low, and "being" (yu) and "non- being" (wu), thereby shaping desires. To abandon knowledge was to abandon names, distinctions, tastes and desires. Thus spontaneous behavior (wu-wei) resulted.
The Taoist philosophy can perhaps best be summed up in a quote from Chuang Tzu:
"To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent -- herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients."

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