/lit/ - Literature

Here is a website with multiple translations next to each other so you can compare and see which one you like
>https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jhmd,jc,rh
And here is a website with virtually every english translation available.
>https://terebess.hu/english/tao/_index.html

Have fun and always remember.
>He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
and
>The based that can be based is not the eternal based.

read the tao te ching. dont freak out about which translation you should read. just read them all:

this website allows you to read multiple translations at once:
>https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jhmd,jc,rh
and this website has a fuck ton of translations
>https://terebess.hu/english/tao/_index.html

and always remember
>He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
>The based that can be spoken is not the eternal based.

>"He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know."

Always remember anons
>The based that can be told is not the eternal based

>"The based that can be told is not the eternal based"

>"The Based that can be told is not the eternal Based"
What did he mean by this?

>>17593766
>For me, Taoism was the invisible soul of Chinese culture, in contrast to the Confucian "face". I think Taoism is completely alien to us non-Chinese.


I think it is important to understand two concepts, Daoists and the Dao. Obviously the Dao that can be understood is not the enduring Dao etc etc, but to understand it is a shared concept across pretty much all of Chinese philosophy. Confuscians speak of the Dao, Buddhists speak of the Dao, naturalists and legalists speak of the Dao. It is as core to chinese philosophy like god has been to the west.

What then are Daoists? Daoists or "people of the way" are the various shamans, philosophers and mystics of Chinese philosophy. Some famous Daoists we know as Lao Tze and Zhuang Tze (Their names meaning Old master and Powerfull master respectively, wether they were historical persons who knows).

Now there exists a religion named Daoism, whose adherents deify various masters and emperors and the like into Gods and Angellike beings, this however is not the only Daoism and the Daoism you have to follow to be a Daoist. I for one, consider myself to be a Lao-Tze-ist-Daoist-Protestant-Christian, But when people ask i just say im an atheist.