Taoist source material · 中文对照
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Five collections of Taoist source material — the literature, the lineages, the classics, the methods and the daily practice of cultivation. Translated and checked against the Chinese, in English anyone can read.
The five collections
Five doors into one tradition.
Not a feed and not a course. Each collection holds primary material in the order it was written, with the Chinese facing the English. Open the door you came for, or start at the first.
Open sample · 经典著作 · 道德经 · 第一章
The way that can be spoken of
Chapter one continues behind the membership, with the commentary that travelled alongside it. So do the other 80 chapters and the 171 items across the four remaining collections.
The way that can be spoken of is not the constant way. The name that can be named is not the constant name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth; the named is the mother of the ten thousand things.
道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。无名天地之始；有名万物之母。
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- All five collections — 214 texts, scans and recordings
- Chinese original facing every translation
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What this is
An archive, not a course.
This is
- A working archive of primary material, five collections deep
- Translations checked against the Chinese
- Practice instructions with a named source
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This is not
- A course with a deadline
- A teacher selling initiation
- Fortune telling dressed as philosophy
- A feed optimised for scrolling
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