“The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao.” In eighty-one brief chapters the Tao Te Ching sets water against stone, yielding against force, and the ruler who governs least against the ruler who governs most — the founding book of Taoism, here in James Legge’s careful scholarly translation.
Two and a half thousand years old, and still the shortest route to Taoism. Download the free EPUB.