Tao Te Ching

[ dou de jing ]

noun

1. the philosophical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-tzu.

Example Sentences

Shortly after revealing my depressive episodes to my father a few years ago, he handed me two books and told me all of life’s answers could be found within them: the “Tao Te Ching” and the “Analects of Confucius.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

If you flip open a copy of the “Tao Te Ching,” the 2,400-year-old classic of Chinese philosophy, you may find any number of passages that seem applicable to this 21st-century Hollywood actor and to some of the characters he has played.

From Washington Post

He’s been given Trader Joe’s chocolate on an Oregon flight, packets of seaweed, Starbucks and Tim Hortons gift cards, the book “Tao Te Ching,” home-smoked salmon and Garrett popcorn from Chicago.

From Washington Post

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