…truth by complete relaxation, by complete acceptance. by the complete renunciation of self-will in the presence of divine will. Therefore, as Lao Tzu so well points out, the way of reality or the path to Tao is the effortless effort, the effort in which…

…to bring to mankind a higher level of life. We know the great world teachers. We know Buddha and Moses and Confucius and Lao Tzu and Jesus, Muhammad, all the great teachers that have come to serve us. We know that almost all of them have either died…

…have had the highest and most noble motives that we know of in humanity. The second, of course, is nature. That was how Lao Tzu became a great philosopher, sitting by the side of a hill and looking out upon the beauties and wonders of the world. And…

…world. And he saw nature unfolding. We can do that today, but the moment we do this, we find out something that perhaps Lao Tzu could only intuit. We find out that nature is a fulfillment of rules, that nature in its own way is constructive, beautiful,…

…nearly all of the great systems. And the mountains and the valleys and the hills and the seas, these are also, as Lao Tzu pointed out, a great diagram, a great symbolism, a tremendous set of hexagrams by means of which every principle in the universe…

…reality, and accuracy. Always to do that which is necessary for the greater good. And the diagrams are very, very important to us. Lao Tzu tells us that life is a river. The river pours down into the sea the individual returns to the infinite the sun…

…which we can decorate with our own flowers. These are beauties. To go out sometime and sit on the side of a hill like Lao Tzu and gaze upon the sunrise and the sunset. When we do this, we look upon something that is greater than ourselves. We look…

…They're available to everyone. And so are the teachings of Christ, the teachings of Buddha, the teachings of Pythagoras, of Plato, of Lao Tzu. All of these teachings are basic. There is not one of them that came from an academic source. They all came…

…along came Pythagoras, burned to death with his school by a fanatic. We find Confucius, his last words, I have failed. We find Lao Tzu completely disillusioned, riding off into the sands of Gobi on the back of an old water rock. going in search of that…

…come very close, of course, to our Oriental religion. We come very close to Taoism and to the experience of all Lao Tzu himself. who, suddenly penetrating through the form of things, discovered the universe to be a great divine motion, an eternal movement…

…time, there flourished in China one of the most mysterious human beings who has ever lived, and that was Lao Tzu. This mystic, this transcendental sage, this self-disciplined, self-educated, self-enlightened man was to become the greatest mystic of Asia. And…

…the migration of sacred writings from India, for many such works were conserved in the great libraries of the two dynasties. Thus, Lao Tzu actually stood as a kind of bridge between the wisdom of China and the esoteric knowledge of India. There seems to…

…kind of bridge between the wisdom of China and the esoteric knowledge of India. There seems to be much to imply that either Lao Tzu himself or those who came after him drank of this fountain of Indian wisdom and law, and that out of the original Taoism…

…almost in the same relationship as Mahayana Buddhism to primitive Buddhism in India. or the theological Taoism to the primitive absolutism of Lao Tzu. In each instance, we see the arising of a new point of view. And in the case of the Kabbalists, this…

…If we think in this larger way, I believe, the processes of generation will become increasingly clear. And we shall realize, as Lao Tzu gives us in the Doctrine of Tao, the nature of this one power by which all things are sustained, which takes all…

…The reason we don't want to live in harmony with life is because we don't understand life. We don't know what it is. If, like Lao Tzu, we sat on the side of a hill for a while and relaxed and let the glory of creation shine into our hearts, we…

…age of early Chinese culture was certainly the period for which produced within China the two greatest sage scholars, Confucius and Lao Tzu. These men flourished between the 5th and 6th centuries BC. And of them, China will never cease to honor their names…

…common man and the great man into common unity with truth itself. The beginning, as might be imagined, the philosophy of Lao Tzu was entirely too abstract for the average person. Taoism was in a dilemma from the beginning. Obviously it would be rejected…

…remained an almost mirage-like structure for a good many centuries. It had a few followers. most of them rebels like Lao Tzu himself. Individuals who departed from the world for one reason or another, retired into distant places to cultivate the monastic…

…the peace and brotherhood taught by Christ. We know the compassion taught by Buddha. We know the renunciation of error taught by Lao Tzu. We know obedience to the rules of peace taught by Confucius. We also know the exact science of redemption as set…

…aids to understanding. He seeks to know better and to live according to the teachings of Buddha or Jesus or Confucius or Lao Tzu because he believes these persons have lived well. He tries to draw upon the spiritual experience of his race for courage,…

…the individual being utterly and completely moved by the infinite. Moved by something he could not define. Moved by the power that Lao Tzu tells us about, this way of heaven, Tao. Moved by the eternal rhythm of the infinite. And this rhythm is the rhythm…

…conversations and the various members could get together in little groups and discuss the eternal values of things. It is said that Lao Tzu went there on the back of his water ox where the mortal world of China no longer would accept him. So everywhere…

…We find it in the Ten Commandments. We find it in the teachings of Jesus, in the Buddha, Zoroaster, Hermes, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Pythagoras. All of these great people who were the real teachers of mankind pointed out this inevitable truth that as we…

…other hand, Laozi, facing Confucius, found in him a level of insights or understandings which were incapable of gaining the insight that Lao Tzu himself believed to be necessary. In the end, Lao Tzu is pictured riding on a water buffalo off into the Gobi…

…of insights or understandings which were incapable of gaining the insight that Lao Tzu himself believed to be necessary. In the end, Lao Tzu is pictured riding on a water buffalo off into the Gobi Desert because there was nobody that wanted what he had.…

…in part by writing a prayer upon a piece of thin paper, chewing it up, and spinning it onto an image. Either Confucius or Lao Tzu would have turned in that grave under such a procedure, yet it represented a change but was to show why China was never…

…could not disprove Plato, It could not disprove Aristotle. Buddhistic mysticism could not disprove Buddha. Nor Taoistic mysticism disproved Lao Tzu. Nor could these mysticisms rise in violent antagonism against the whole common experience of the race. This was…

…Confucius when he said the strength of the Empire depends upon the strength of the home civilization is a gradual expansion of home. Lao Tzu taught us that we should sit sometimes on the side of a hill and look out over the landscape and realize what a…

…call this peace. And we find it in various ways. But we always find it when we are really seeking to understand life. Lao Tzu, the Chinese sage, as a child found it sitting on the side of a hill overlooking the great mountains of northern China. Buddha…

…bestowed upon all kinds of things in nature The love we have for the sky and the earth that enables us to go out as Lao Tzu did in China and sit under a tree on the bank of a little river and there commune with the infinite. The love that steps…

…And inertia is wrong. We should be out rolling up our sleeves and doing great heroic deeds. But the scriptures tell us, and Lao Tzu told us, Buddha told us, and Confucius told us, Zoroaster told us, Moses told us, and Jesus told us, that the actual…

…because it consists of heaven moving through form. And we find the same thought very largely contained in the doubt-taking of Lao Tzu. It is motion moving in space, an infinite rhythm, and that which moves is only motion because it moves something. Pure…

…our Western historical approach. Now, as an alleging of the result of the teachings of the obscure Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, Christ reviewed distinct stages in his development. The first, the philosophical. The second, the third, the mental. And the…

…And that this Diamond Soul of ours is so illusory, by means of which the individual becomes completely accustomed to what Lao Tzu calls Tao, or absolute equal receptivity to universal energy. The universe around man, within man, is Tao. According to Lao…

…Lao Tzu calls Tao, or absolute equal receptivity to universal energy. The universe around man, within man, is Tao. According to Lao Tzu, this universe is not only infinite life, but the infinite wisdom, truth, love, law. It is not only all these moral…