Lieh-tzu by Wong, Eva -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction: Reading Lieh-tzu Part One: The Gifts of Heaven

Introduction 1. That which is not born gives birth to everything 2. All things are connected and come from the same origin 3. Heaven and earth have their strengths and weaknesses 4. Life and death 5. Shadows, sounds, and ghosts 6. The stages of life 7. Life is hard work, death is rest 8. The value of emptiness 9. Are things growing or decaying? 10. Worrying that the sky will fall 11. Life that is borrowed, wealth that is stolen

Part Two: The Yellow Emperor

Introduction 12. The Yellow Emperor visits the immortal lands 13. Riding on the wind, floating with the clouds 14. The art of staying under water and walking through fire 15. The art of archery 16. Feats of power 17. The art of taming tigers 18. The art of steering a boat 19. The art of swimming 20. The man who could walk through fire 21. Lieh-tzu and the sorcerer 22. Lieh-tzu’s fear 23. Lao-tzu teaches Yang-chu 24. What is there to appearances? 25. Softness and hardness, yielding and resisting

Part Three: King Mu of Ch’ou

Introduction 26. King Mu’s dream 27. Learning the arcane arts 28. Dreams 29. The truth about happiness and misery 30. What is real and what is unreal? 31. The man who lost his memory 32. Who is confused? 33. The man who got upset over nothing

Part Four: Confucius

Introduction 34. True happiness and contentment 35. Seeing with ears and hearing with eyes 36. Who is a sage? 37. What is wisdom? 38. The man with a wooden face 39. The art of traveling and sightseeing 40. Lung-shu’s strange illness 41. Responding naturally 42. There are some things that you just can’t fight 43. Who is supporting whom? 44. What is strength? 45. The strange arguments of Kung-sun Lung 46. Knowing when to withdraw

Part Five: The Questions of Tang

Introduction 47. Where do things come from? 48. The man who tried to move mountains 49. The man who tried to chase down the sun 50. The North Country 51. Strange customs in strange countries 52. The questions of a child 53. The art of fishing 54. Exchanging hearts and minds 55. Musician Wen learns to play the lute 56. When Han-erh sang 57. Kindred spirits 58. Artificial or real? 59. Learning the art of archery 60. Tsao-fu learns to drive 61. Lai-tan’s revenge

Part Six: Effort and Destiny

Introduction 62. Effort argues with Destiny 63. Fortune and worth 64. The friendship of Kuan-chung and Pao Shu-ya 65. Are life and death a matter of effort or destiny? 66. An average doctor, a good doctor, and an ingenious doctor 67. Yang-chu talks about destiny 68. We cannot know people who are different from us 69. Success and failure 70. The king who was greedy about life and afraid of death 71. Death is not a loss

Part Seven: Yang-chu

Part Eight: Explaining Coincidences

Introduction 84. Action and reaction 85. Why do people follow the path of the Tao? 86. Lieh-tzu learns archery 87. Choosing the right person for the job 88. Can we compete with nature? 89. Someone’s words can make or break you 90. Being at the right place at the right time 91. If I can step on someone, someone else can step on me 92. To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom 93. Trust and confidence 94. The best way to keep a secret is not to talk 95. Those who succeed are not excited about success; those who know do not display their knowledge 96. Fortune and misfortune 97. A matter of luck 98. Seeing beyond appearances 99. Managing your life and governing a country 100. Rank, wealth, and ability can get you into trouble 101. You cannot apply one principle to all conditions 102. Retribution by accident 103. Confusing name and reality 104. To die for someone who values you is natural 105. Confused by too many alternatives 106. Yang-pu and the dog 107. Knowledge and action 108. Capture and release—an act of compassion or cruelty? 109. Who was created for whom to eat? 110. It’s all in your mind 111. Those who are involved are muddled; those who watch are clear

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