Taoist Texts

The Chuang Tzu:

1. Space and Time
2. Identity of subjective and objective
3. Life too short
4. Virtue should be passive, not active
5. The virtuous person disregards externals
6. The Human and the divine
7. Princes should reign, not rule
8. Virtue should be natural
9. Superiority of the natural over the artifical
10. All restrictions artifical, and therefore deceptive
11. The natural conditions of our existence require no artificial aids
12. The pre-eminence of Tao. All things informed thereby
13. Tao is repose
14. The Ultimate Cause. Integrity of Tao. Music and Tao. Failure of Confucianism
15. Would-be sages. The vanity of effort. Method of the true Sage. Passivity the key
16. Tao unattainable by mundane arts
17. Greatness and smallness always relative
18. The uncertainty of human happiness
19. The soul is from God. Man's body its vehicle
20. The alternatives of usefulness and uselessness
21. Tao cannot be imparted in words
22. The universe our model. Spontaneity our watchword.
23. The Tao is passionless
24. The operation of Tao is not seen
25. Influence of virtue concealed
26. The external uncertain
27. Natural speech in harmony
28. Happy Under Success
29. The Robber Che
30. Wen Wang the Swordsman
31. Charity And Duty To One's
32. Outward manifestation
33. Summary by early editors

Selected Quotations from Lao Tzu

Selected Poems of Tu Fu

Selected Poems of Li Pai