Tao Te Ching
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When I left that that meeting, Guillermo gave me Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and the Tao Te Ching.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
We then replicated this finding twice in our paper: In a follow-up study, we randomly assigned Taoists to watch either a human or a robot deliver a passage from the Tao Te Ching.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 25, 2023
Chapter 29 of the Tao Te Ching reads: “The Earth is like a vessel so sacred/That at the mere approach of the profane/It is marred/And when they reach our their fingers it is gone.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
The Tao Te Ching says that it is only through retreat rather than pursuit, through inaction rather than action, that we acquire wisdom.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2017
Taoism - Chinese philosophy or religion based upon Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, which centers on belief in the Tao, or the way, as the flow of the universe and the nature of things.
From The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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