** Introduction

* BOOK ONE

** 1. Taoing

** 2. Soul food

** 3. Hushing

** 4. Sourceless

** 5. Useful emptiness

** 6. What is complete

** 7. Dim brightness

** 8. Easy by nature

** 9. Being quiet

** 10. Techniques

** 11. The uses of not

** 12. Not wanting

** 13. Shameless

** 14. Celebrating mystery

** 15. People of power

** 16. Returning to the root

** 17. Acting simply

** 18. Second bests

** 19. Raw silk and uncut wood

** 20. Being different

** 21. The empty heart

** 22. Growing downward

** 23. Nothing and not

** 24. Proportion

** 25. Imagining mystery

** 26. Power of the heavy

** 27. Skill

** 28. Turning back

** 29. Not doing

** 30. Not making war

** 31. Against war

** 32. Sacred power

** 33. Kinds of power

** 34. Perfect trust

** 35. Humane power

** 36. The small dark light

** 37. Over all

* BOOK TWO

** 38. Talking about power

** 39. Integrity

** 40. By no means

** 41. On and off

** 42. Children of the Way

** 43. Water and stone

** 44. Fame and fortune

** 45. Real power

** 46. Wanting less

** 47. Looking far

** 48. Unlearning

** 49. Trust and power

** 50. Love of life

** 51. Nature, nurture

** 52. Back to the beginning

** 53. Insight

** 54. Some rules

** 55. The sign of the mysterious

** 56. Mysteries of power

** 57. Being simple

** 58. Living with change

** 59. Staying on the way

** 60. Staying put

** 61. Lying low

** 62. The gift of the way

** 63. Consider beginnings

** 64. Mindful of little things

** 65. One power

** 66. Lowdown

** 67. Three treasures

** 68. Heaven’s lead

** 69. Using mystery

** 70. Being obscure

** 71. The sick mind

** 72. The right fear

** 73. Daring to do

** 74. The Lord of Slaughter

** 75. Greed

** 76. Hardness

** 77. The bow

** 78. Paradoxes

** 79. Keeping the contract

** 80. Freedom

** 81. Telling it true

* NOTES

** Concerning This Version

** Sources

** Notes on Some Choices of Wording

** The Two Texts of the Tao Te Ching

** Notes on the Chapters

*** CHAPTER 1

*** CHAPTER 5

*** CHAPTER 12

*** CHAPTER 13

*** CHAPTERS 17, 18, AND 19

*** CHAPTER 20

*** CHAPTER 23

*** CHAPTER 24

*** CHAPTER 25

*** CHAPTER 26

*** CHAPTER 27

*** CHAPTER 28

*** CHAPTER 29

*** CHAPTER 31

*** CHAPTER 33

*** CHAPTER 36

*** CHAPTER 37

*** CHAPTER 38

*** CHAPTER 39

*** CHAPTER 41

*** CHAPTER 42

*** CHAPTER 44

*** CHAPTER 47

*** CHAPTER 48

*** CHAPTER 49

*** CHAPTER 50

*** CHAPTER 52

*** CHAPTER 54

*** CHAPTER 56

*** CHAPTER 57

*** CHAPTER 58

*** CHAPTER 59

*** CHAPTER 61

*** CHAPTER 62

*** CHAPTER 64

*** CHAPTER 65

*** CHAPTER 69

*** CHAPTER 71

*** CHAPTER 72

*** CHAPTER 74

*** CHAPTER 80

*** CHAPTER 81