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2 A Tao Te Ching
2 A Tao Te Ching
TAO TE CHING
by: LAO TZU -CHINA
CHAPTER 30:
• There’s not much point in using soldiers to solve problems since eventually, somebody else’s soldiers will
attack you in retaliation.
• Violence is a bad idea. The book also advises on how a talented military commander behaves. A talented
commander achieves the necessary results and then stops.
CHAPTER 31:
• All things hate a strong military. The military is not a tool for honorable men.
Discussion
• When honorable men are forced to use violence, they only do it out of necessity. They remain detached from
the whole thing and don’t find any glory in victory. People who enjoy killing are never going “to achieve their
ambitions upon the world.” In the end, we’re told everyone who dies in war should be mourned.
CHAPTER 32:
• There will be no need to force things to be good; they just will be good. We have to know when to stop naming
things. If we know when to stop, then we avoid danger.
CHAPTER 33:
• This one’s all about knowing yourself. You’re pretty smart if you understand others, but you’re totally
enlightened if you understand yourself.
• Then it tells us that you’re strong if you overcome others, but it’s only when you overcome yourself that you’re
truly powerful.
TITLE OF THE LITERARY PIECE
Discussion
Identify the social issues shown in the text and relate such to the current political atmosphere in
the country
• It’s useless to try to control the world because the world cannot be controlled
- These are people and political issues, not technology ones. ... Nothing could be more true of
the next internet and our lives in relation to information access. ... “If we choose a future we want
in 50 years, and work toward creating ... The world of matter and energy will be mediated by
information and context.
• what is the message implied in the poem/story etc.?
-The Tao Te Ching translates roughly as "the path of integrity." It is a treatise on how to live in the
world of goodness and honesty in its 81 verses, which is an essential kind of wisdom in a world
where many people think it is impossible.
TAO TE CHING
-The Tao Te Ching, a two and half thousand-year text credited to Laozi, the second most translated book in
world literature, forms the basis of Taoism. It teaches how to live in harmony with the world. It is hard, very
hard, to master, but my dog, Betty is Tao. Here are seven things she does that are pure Tao.
1. Look within yourself and you will find everything you need.