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The Tao Te Ching

Updated: Jan 28

The Tao te Ching is a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Lao Tzu. One of the most influential books ever written on living the spiritual life, the text’s authorship, date of composition, and date of compilation are debated, and yet the power and importance of the teachings and wisdom found within the book cannot be overestimated.


Lao Tzo and the Tao Te Ching


The Tao Te Ching, is a key text for spiritual and philosophical Taoism. The Tao te Ching greatly influenced other schools of Asian philosophy and spirituality including Zen, Confucianism, and Chinese Buddhism, which was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts when it was originally introduced to China. The Tao is without dogma or religion. The Tao allows us to find love and compassion again. It is a handbook to life. It invites you to go within your Self to find the answers. It is a path to rediscovering your authentic Self. You can read it in an afternoon. You can spend a lifetime mastering it.


Many artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, martial artists, and gardeners, have used the Tao te Ching as as a source of inspiration. 


What the Tao te Ching has to offer us is an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to principles based on Natural Law. Principles are based on an ethic and a wisdom that is universal, spiritual, and timeless.


The Tao te Ching defines physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual effectiveness as the balance of obtaining desirable results based on need rather than want (the ego). Lao Tzu illustrates this in a flowing style offering transformative wisdom over 80 verses. The Tao has the power to reclaim your life from the ego-based identity that emprisons you. The Tao allows you to learn to live in divine consciousness. In discovering these Truths, we become creators of the Universe rather than passive observers of it. We detach from our ego and learn to live life in the now. We are able to reconnect with the divine Source. Living in the Tao can bring you a deep inner peace.


Here is the first verse of the Tao:


Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.

Conceived of as being indescribable,

it is the first source of all spirit and matter.

Thus to surrender the desires of the senses

is to know the freedom of spirituality;

and through desire you will learn the limitation of matter.

These two things, spirit and matter, so different in nature,

originate from the same source.

This unity of origin is the mystery of mysteries,

and the gateway to all wonders.


Spirit (energy) and matter being equal was reflecetd in Albert Einstein's famous equation E (energy or spirit) = M (mass or matter) squared. This was almost 2,500 years before Einstein was born!


One can live by the pure wisdom of the Tao’s full 80 verses.


Dr Wayne Dyer, a spiritual guru, translated the Tao te Ching and he reads it here:


'The Tao Te Ching' read by Dr Wayne Dyer

 

Dr Dyer spoke to Oprah about the wisdom of the Tao:


Dr Wayne Dyer and Oprah Winfrey on 'The Wisdom of the Tao Te Ching'


Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you: Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.


George Bernard Shaw wrote that “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” Are you ready to change your mind?


Namaste.


Sending you love, light, and blessings brothers.


Olly



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