Lao tzu was a government official in 6th century BCE in China. He became disillusioned with the Chinese society and decided to leave. He rode away his water buffalo. At the western gate the empire, the gatekeeper convinced him to write down his thoughts before leaving. That document become the “Tao te Ching”. This story defines the traditional belief about the author of the Tao te Ching. On the other hand, the modern theory contradicts that. There was no historical person named “Lao Tzu” who wrote the Tao the Ching. Instead the book is an anthology completed over 200 years by numerous Taoist thinkers. During this time in china itinerant philosophers traveled the country. They were looking for powerful aristocrats to employ them, and how they could influence with Taoist ideas.
Tao can be described as transcendent, eternal and greater. The Tao is
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The book has many different chapters which has an interesting lesson to learn hence it has attracted many philosophers and religious people due to his wisdom thinking about reality. In the class we have discussed some of chapters which were important about governing. Some of these chapters include chapter 5, 6,8,11, 22 and 42. For example, in chapter 6 it emphasizes that ruling a big country is like cooking a small fish. In reality this statement can be understood that having control over other people can use division and weakened their strength. In chapter 5 it also emphasizes that people pursue interest and dreams in many different ways but they never exhausted. But in reality the chapters in the book have great influence and inspired many individuals on how they should live in their lives. One of the major lessons that can be learned from this chapters is how to be humble, generals and how power should never influence on what we stand for. Tao concludes that human desire should never be the first thing that determine our