Tao Teh King for Awakening
One of the accusations made about the Essenes by the “regular” adherents of the Mosaic Law was that they “kept alien scriptures.” According to the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ this was so. The Essenes had copies of the scriptures of Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism, which they considered valid and from which they taught in their communities and schools along with the Law, the Psalms, and the Prophets. According to the Aquarian Gospel Jesus was brought up as conversant with those religions as with Judaism.
It is said that the Tao Teh King is the work of the great Chinese sage Lao Tze. Disgusted with the degeneration of Chinese society, he decided to leave and vanish forever–which he did. But as he was leaving the capital, the warden of the gate asked him to set down his realizations since he would no longer be accessible to truth seekers. He did so, and then went out the gate into the lost pages of human history.
If a person wishes he can immerse himself in the stewpot of scholarly speculation as to who Lao Tze “really” was, whether he ever existed, and whether he wrote the Tao Teh King, or who did. None of this means anything. Taoist masters through the centuries have proved the truth of the Tao Teh King, and that is all that matters. For truth seekers it stands as a monument to Truth. Even those who understand it imperfectly will reap great gain from its study.
The text on which this commentary is based for the first eighteen sections is that of James Legge, but from then on that of Lin Yutang. The sections are according to those traditional in the ancient texts of the Tao Teh King.
Read the first chapter in the Tao Teh King for Awakening: On the Absolute Tao
Chapters of Tao Teh King for Awakening
- On the Absolute Tao
- The Rise of Relative Opposites
- Action Without Deeds
- The Character of Tao
- Nature
- The Spirit of the Valley
- Living for Others
- Water
- The Danger of Overweening Success
- Embracing the One
- The Utility of Not-Being
- The Senses
- Praise and Blame
- Prehistoric Origins
- The Wise Ones of Old
- Knowing the Eternal Law
- Rulers
- The Decline of Tao
- Realize the Simple Self
- The World and I
- Manifestations of Tao
- Futility of Contention
- Identification with Tao
- The Dregs and Tumors of Virtue
- The Four Eternal Models
- Heaviness and Lightness
- On Stealing the Light
- Keeping to the Female
- Warning Against Interference
- Warning Against the Use of Force
- Weapons of Evil
- The Peace of Tao
- The Rhythm of Life
- World Peace
- Degeneration
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