Tao Te Ching Themes

The Tao of the Tao Te Ching is about as awesome and amazing as something can possibly be. To Taoists, the Tao is everything: the stuff in your room, the cars in the street, the squirrels in the tre...

If the Tao Te Ching could only say one thing, it might be something like, "Yo, get over yourself." Well, it would probably say it more eloquently than that… which it does over and over again thro...

You're probably saying, "Isn't all of Taoism a philosophical viewpoint?" Here's a nebulous answer (a shocker, we know: the Tao Te Ching is normally so cut and dried!): yes and no.The idea of wu wei...

The Tao Te Ching teaches that being super judge-y of everybody else is a terrible way to go through life. The great Tao nurtures everything there is, whether it's a bad thing or a good thing. So we...

To the Tao Te Ching, greediness definitely falls on the dark side of the Force. (See: Emperor Palpatine.) Taoism is all about getting over yourself and being humble, so the idea of packing your ban...

The Tao Te Ching comes down hard on warfare, basically saying that war is awful and ultimately pointless since it only causes more war down the line. We can also take all of the TTC's anti-war stuf...

The Tao Te Ching has tons of advice for all you rulers out there, the key point being that the more you try to control your people with force, the more they'll slip from your control. From the TTC'...

Here's a little irony for you... even though the Tao Te Ching is considered by a ton of people to be one of the wisest books ever written, the book itself totally criticizes the wisdom of seeking w...