Lao Tzu's classic Chinese text from the sixth century BCE has much to teach us today. Lao Tzu meditates on breath, enjoining the reader to practice breathing like a baby; reflects on hsu, or emptiness ...

Towler (Tales from the Tao), a teacher of Taoist meditation and qigong for over two decades, suggests that the Tao Te Ching is a spiritual practice guide for moving oneself toward oneness with the Tao ...

Recently in the course of an intense personal conversation with a family member about power and other necessary matters which need not detain us here, I found myself trying to explain a recurring ...

ANCIENT INSIGHT: In his new translation, Mars Hill University professor of religious studies Marc Mullinax builds a framework for understanding each of the Tao Te Ching’s 81 verses through historical ...

When I tell people that I like to read the Tao Te Ching, they start staring at the floor, as if looking for a dog to pet. It's like I've suddenly produced, and then struck, a 4,000-pound gong. But the ...

The Tao Te Ching (circa 4th century BC and later), traditionally attributed to legendary sage Lao Tzu, is the foundational text of Taoism, as well as one of the world’s most important works of ...

LINGBAO CITY, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On June 10, the Fifth Forum on Laozi Culture was held at Hangu Gate in Lingbao City, Henan Province, China, the place where Laozi wrote Tao Te Ching. At 8 o’clock ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 95, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1975), pp. 36-42 (7 pages) The Confucian self seeks to determine the development of the other (men or phenomena) and sees this as ...