We delve into The Tao Te Ching(In English, 2023 Revision).

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We delve into The Tao Te Ching(In English, 2023 Revision).

 

 

Prologue.

 

Lao Tzu, believed to have lived during the Jin Dynasty, which was ruled by the descendants of Shun, the originator of ritual practices, was born in Gokin-ri of the Zhou Dynasty. In 534 B.C., the Jin Dynasty was overthrown by the Zhou Dynasty. Laozi is said to have been a contemporary of Confucius, living during the 6th or 5th century BCE. In 501 B.C., when Confucius was 51 years old, during the Spring and Autumn Period, he embarked on a journey to seek out Laozi, described as an elderly man with a full head of hair, to learn about the proper etiquette of the Jin Dynasty. According to ‘Zhuangzi’, they met near the middle-upper stream of Huisu, not far from the Sang of the former Jin dynasty. It was during this encounter that Confucius first encountered Laozi’s philosophy of natural spontaneity and self-liberation. After realizing its stark contrast with his own teachings centered around humanity and the goal of cultivating a harmonious society, Confucius turned away. Lao Tzu, feeling disillusioned with the state of the world in an era of chaos, retreated from society, recognizing the impermanence of human affairs. At Hamgokgwan, he left behind a collection of 5,000 characters known as ‘The Tao Te Ching’ for Yoon-hee, representing the foundation of all philosophy and thought.

 

Author ‘NomadSirius’ Introduction.

 

‘Sirius’ is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Greek word “Seirios,” meaning ‘glowing’ or ‘scorching.’ Imagining Sirius rising just before sunrise, I embark on the classic and humanities-inspired ‘Nomad’ journey. With the aim of introducing the essence of Oriental culture to the West, I am planning to publish a series of 333 eBooks, an English Oriental Humanities Glossary, and an aesthetically pleasing English Fantasy novel.

A series of 333 eBooks.

1. 노자의 언어로 세상을 성찰하다(In Korean, 2022).
2. We permeate into The Tao Te Ching(In English, 2022).
3. 화이트헤드의 언어로 세상을 성찰하다(In Korean, 2022).
4. We permeate into The Function of Reason(In English, 2022).
5. 장자의 언어로 세상을 성찰하다(In Korean, 2022).
6. We permeate into The Zhuangzi(In English, 2022).
7. 칼 구스타프 융의 언어로 세상을 성찰하다(In Korean, 2022).
8. We permeate into Psychology of the Unconscious(In English, 2022).
9. 붓다의 언어로 세상을 성찰하다(In Korean, 2022).
10. We permeate into The Diamond Sutra(In English, 2022).
11. 니체의 언어로 세상을 성찰하다(In Korean, 2022).
12. We permeate into On The Genealogy of Morality(In English, 2022).
13. 예수의 언어로 세상을 성찰하다(In Korean, 2023).
14. We delve into Romans(In English, 2023).
15. 인문잡학으로 소통하다 1(In Korean, 2023).
16. East communicates with West 1(In English, 2023).
17. 화이트헤드의 언어로 세상을 성찰하다(In Korean, 2023 개정판).
18. We delve into The Function of Reason(In English, 2023 Revision).
19. 노자의 언어로 세상을 성찰하다(In Korean, 2023 개정판).
20. We delve into The Tao Te Ching(In English, 2023 Revision).

 

E-mail. liberalistkr@gmail.com

 

Publication Right.

 

We delve into The Function of Reason(In English, 2023 Revision).

ⓒ YH Partners 2022

The Date of Publication. 2023.7.10.

Author. nomadsirius.

Publisher. YH Partners.

The Registration Number of Publisher. 2022000013.

Price of eBook. $10.

Address. 20 Landmark-ro, Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Republic of Korea.

E-mail. liberalistkr@gmail.com

ISBN. 979-11-92838-09-0.

This book is copyrighted by the author and YH partners.

Table of contents.

 

1. Getting to the gateway of all subtleness.
2. What is ugliness?
3. What is the cause of competition?
4. To reveal the phenomena.
5. Too much talk.
6. To be endlessly available.
7. To be eternal.
8. What is the supreme good?
9. Caring about your pride.
10. What is the supreme virtue?
11. Creating what is to use.
12. Obstructing our actions.
13. To grasp the intangible.
14. What is form without form?
15. Why do they last for a long time?
16. Knowing eternity.
17. What is the best leader?
18. What virtue does Lao Tzu lower?
19. How to stay at your essentiality?

20-1. Being an outsider.

20-2. Being an outsider.

21. To Know the essence of every entitity.
22. Shining forth.
23. What causes distrust?
24. What does everyone in the world hate?
25. What does the great really mean?
26. What are the qualifications of a lord?
27. Not to abandon people.
28. To receive the world.
29. Going on a mysterious journey.
30. Using military force?
31. Why use the weapon on the right?
32. Benefiting the world widely.

33. Overcoming yourself.

34. Achieving greatness.
35. What is the taste of Taoism?
36. What is the principle of the world?
37. What is the Great Integrity of no name?

38-1. What is the lowest virtue?

38-2. If you’re obsessed with the propriety of the Tao?

39-1. Losing the one.

39-2. To be precious and high itself.

40. To move the Great Integrity.

41-1. Who are foolish men?

41-2. What is the paradox of the Tao?

42. What is supreme teaching?
43. To move and drive the world.
44. What is the secret to living forever?
45. What makes the world right?
46. Having eternal contentment.
47. To know the world.
48. To get the world.
49. To treat all others like his own children.
50. Not to move towards death.
51. What is mysterious virtue?
52. To be free from the miseries?
53. Not to know the Tao.
54. Looking inside myself.
55. To shine brightly.
56. What is subtle oneness?
57. Making the world right.
58. Being deluded for a long time.
59. The secret to living long.
60. To lose evil’s power.
61. To take a large country.
62. The most precious in the world.
63. Not to run into a difficulty.
64. Not suffering a loss.

65. The world’s harm and good fortune.

66. To govern and lead people.
67. Three treasures to cherish.
68. The power of cooperation.
69. Winning an enemy without attacking.
70. Looking inside themselves.
71. Pretending to know without knowing.
72. Not experiencing what is coercive.
73. What is the process of heaven?
74. To execute in place of the executioner.
75. Not enjoying the treasure of life.
76. Being stiff and rigid.
77. Balancing the world.
78. Accepting the calamaties and bearing the toxicitiesm.
79. Engaging in blameful acts.
80. One with nature.
81. Wthout contention.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Getting to the gateway of all subtleness.

 

(1) 原文 The original text.

 

We delve into the Tao Te Ching in English.

 

道可道非常道

The Tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao.

名可名非常名

The name that can be named is not the universal name.

無名天地之始有名萬物之母

The unnamable is the real and naming is the manifestation of all things.

故常無欲而觀基妙

Therefore, being free from desire, you can see the mystery.

常有欲而觀基黴

Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

此兩者同出而異名

Both of them arise from the same source but naming fragments them into different things.

同謂之玄

The same source is the mystery.

玄之又玄衆妙之門

The mystery within the mystery; the gateway to all subtlety.

 

(2) 註 My commentary.

 

One line a day, what I read is like this.

Liberated from the limitations of naming, you behold the Great Integrity.

 

Mysteries and intuitions arise from the universal Tao.

Both are concepts that have been assigned names.

Naming separates our intuitive awareness from our analytical thinking.

In the absence of naming, you perceive the unity and sacredness.

By relinquishing our analytical thinking, we access the entrance to profound subtlety.