Tao Te Ching (Annotated)

The Tao Te Ching is a foundational classic of Chinese thought, composed in eighty-one brief chapters of aphoristic, paradoxical, and poetically compressed prose. It meditates on the Tao—the ineffable "Way" underlying all being—and on te, the virtue or power through which one lives in accord with it. Its style is spare yet inexhaustible, moving through images of water, emptiness, infancy, and the u...