okay, i hope all of you have at least heard about it if not know it, but if you don't... cause there are allways some of you, i guess i have to give a history.

The aurthor is commonly intitled Lao Tzu but that is a fallacy, sense Lao Tzu means "Master Lao" and the only Lao mentioned is a comptemporary of Confucius named Lao Tan. Chuang-tzu called him a master of it. So Lao Tzu was a great teacher of Tao. But the book is written by others who heard him speak. They are the collection of versus of things according to the Tao. They are then summed up or confomred and made into two books. First in my translation is the Te ching, or the classical teachings of virtue, and the there is the Tao ching, or the classical teachings of the way. These are the almost religious ideals and philosipies of a warring China and confusion with heaven and the way and the empire. This almost anarchist statement has become a mainstream philosiphy of the east.


so what do you all thing about Taoism, the tao te ching, and all the coolness there off. You are talking to someone who anniamately studies Taoism so your going to have some fun if you want to argue.