Tao Te Ching

[dou de jing]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Elordi’s deep-dive reading list included the bedrock Taoist guide “Tao Te Ching,” Stephen Mitchell’s well-regarded translation of the Book of Job and a text on the developmental stages of a baby.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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