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Index
Introduction
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
Book One: Chapters 1-37
1 - Taoing
2 - Soul food
3 - Hushing
4 - Sourceless
5 - Useful emptiness
6 - What is complete
7 - Dim brightness
8 - Easy by nature
9 - Being quiet
10 - Techniques
11 - The uses of not
12 - Not wanting
13 - Shameless
14 - Celebrating mystery
15 - People of power
16 - Returning to the root
17 - Acting simply
18 - Second bests
19 - Raw silk and uncut wood
20 - Being different
21 - The empty heart
22 - Growing downward
23 - Nothing and not
24 - Proportion
25 - Imagining mystery
26 - Power of the heavy
27 - Skill
28 - Turning back
29 - Not doing
30 - Not making war
31 - Against war
32 - Sacred power
33 - Kinds of power
34 - Perfect trust
35 - Humane power
36 - The small dark light
37 - Over all
Book Two: Chapters 38-81
38 - Talking about power
39 - Integrity
40 - By no means
41 – On and off
42 - Children of the Way
43 - Water and stone
44 - Fame and fortune
45 - Real power
46 - Wanting less
47 - Looking far
48 - Unlearning
49 - Trust and power
50 - Love of life
51 - Nature, nurture
52 - Back to the beginning
53 - Insight
54 - Some rules
55 - The sign of the mysterious
56 - Mysteries of power
57 - Being simple
58 - Living with change
59 - Staying on the way
60 - Staying put
61 - Lying low
62 - The gift of the way
63 - Consider beginnings
64 - Mindful of little things
65 – One power
66 – Lowdown
67 – Three treasures
68 – Heaven’s lead
69 – Using mystery
70 – Being obscure
71 – The sick mind
72 – The right fear
73 – Daring to do
74 – The Lord of Slaughter
75 – Greed
76 – Hardness
77 – The bow
78 – Paradoxes
79 – Keeping the contract
80 – Freedom
81 – Telling it true
Notes
Concerning This Version
Sources
Notes on Some Choices of Wording
The Two Texts of the Tao Te Ching
Notes on the Chapters
Chapter 1
Chapter 5
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapters 17, 18, and 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 31
Chapter 33
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 44
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 52
Chapter 54
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 69
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 74
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
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