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
Chapter 38 124
Chapter 39 128
Chapter 40 132
Chapter 41 134
Chapter 42 138
Chapter 43 140
Chapter 44 142
Chapter 45 144
Chapter 46 146
Chapter 47 148
Chapter 48 150
Chapter 49 152
Chapter 50 154
Chapter 51 157
Chapter 52 161
Chapter 53 163
Chapter 54 165
Chapter 55 168
Chapter 56 171
Chapter 57 173
Chapter 58 176
Chapter 59 178
Chapter 60 180
Chapter 61 182
Chapter 62 184
Chapter 63 186
Chapter 64 188
Chapter 65 191
Chapter 66 193
Chapter 67 195
Chapter 68 198
Chapter 69 200
Chapter 70 202
Chapter 71 204
Chapter 72 205
Chapter 73 207
Chapter 74 209
Chapter 75 211
Chapter 76 213
Chapter 77 215
Chapter 78 217
Chapter 79 219
Chapter 80 221
Chapter 81 224