"Previously published as The way of life."--Title page.

Introduction

Book of odes

Confucius

Mo ti

Shang yang and the legalists

Yin yang

Tao te ching

Chinese mystics

Key concepts

The poems

Tao k'o tao = There are ways

T'ien hsia chieh chih = Since the world

Pu shang hsien = If those who are excellent

Tao ch'ung erh = The way is a void

T'ien ch'ang = The sky is everlasting

Shang shan je shui = The highest goodness

Ch'ih erh ying chih = To take all you want

Tsai ying p'o = Can you govern your animal soul?

San-shih fu = Thirty spokes

Wu se ling jen mu = The five colors

Ch'ung ju je ching = Favor, like disgrace

Shih chih pu chien = They call it elusive

Ku chih shan = The excellent masters

Chih hsu chi = Touch ultimate emptiness

T'ai shang hsia = As for him who is highest

Ta tao fei = The mighty way declined

Chueh sheng = Get rid of the wise men

Chueh hsueh = Be done with rote learning

K'ung te = The omnipresent virtue

Ch'u tse chu'uan = The crooked shall be made straight

Hsi yen tzu jan = Sparing indeed is nature

Ch'i che pu li = On tiptoe

Yu wu hun ch'eng = Something there is

Chung wei ch'ing ken = The heavy is foundation

Shna hsing = A good runner

Chih chi'i hsiung = Be aware of your masculine nature

Chiang yu ch'u = As for those who would take

I tao tso jen chu = To those who would help

Fu chia ping che = weapons at best

Tao ch'ang wu ming = The way eternal

Chih ta hsiang = Once grasp the great form

Chiang yu hsi chih = what is to be shrunken

Tao ch'ang wu wei = The way is always still

Shang te pu te = A man of highest virtue

Hsi chih te i che = These things in ancient times

Fan che tao chih tung = The movement of the way

Shang shih wen tao = On hearing of the way

Tao sheng I = The way begot one

T'ien hsia chih = The softest of stuff

Ming yu shen = Which is dearer?

Ta ch'eng je ch'ueh = Most perfect

T'ien hsia yo tao = When the way rules

Pu ch'u hu = The world may be known

Wei hsueh jih I = The student learns

Sheng jen = The wise man's mind

Ch'u sheng ju ssu = On leaving life

Tao sheng chih = The way brings forth

T'ien hsia yu shih = It began with a matrix

Shih wo chieg jan =When I am walking

Shan chien che = Set firm in the way

Han te chih hou = Rich in virtue

Chih che pu yen = Those who know

I cheng chih kuo = Govern the realm

Ch'i cheng men men = Listlessly govern

Chih jen shih t'ien = For ruling men

Chih ta kuo = Rule a large country

Ta kuo che = The great land

Tao che wan wu = Like the gods

Wei wu wei = Act in repose

Ch'i an I ch'ih = A thing that is still

Ku chih shan wei = Everywhere, they say

Shan wei shih che = A skillful soldier

Yung ping yu yen = The strategists

Wu yen shen I chih = My words are easy

Chih pu chih shnag = To know that you are ignorant

Min pu wei wei = IF people do not dread

Yung yu kan = A brave man

Min pu wei ssu = The people do not fear

Min chih chi = The people starve

Jen chih sheng yeh = Alive, a man is supple

T'ien chih tao = Is not God's way much like a bow?

T'ien hsia jou je = Nothing is weaker thatn water

Ho ta yuan = How can you think?

Hsiao kuo kua min = The ideal land

Hsin yen pu mei = As honest words

Text in English, translated from Chinese.