…again tells us very very simply that there is no pain in being good that what we call pain in being good, as Laozi, the great Chinese mystic philosopher points out, is simply the pain of being yourself in the presence of a world that is going…

…what we know all human beings should be. Therefore, perhaps we think of Jesus or Buddha or Zoroaster or Confucius or Laozi, Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras. These were the people, to our thinking, who were most nearly complete people. We have a different way…

…the tides of life for in the processes of creation there must always be this duality of motion the two motions recognized by Laozi There must be the outflowing motion and the returning motion, as in the case of the movements of tides. Now this involves…

…effort, the effort in which there is no self-purpose, but man gradually coming into adjustment with universal purpose. described by Laozi as motion, the universal Tao, or the motion of the infinite in all things. Thus man, by attaining conscious conformity…

…century B.C. was one of the great centuries in the history of the world, where in that century Pythagoras, Buddha, Confucius, and Laozi, and Zoroaster, Svetlana, were all alive at the same time. We know that 600 years later was the beginning of the…

…that gentle, kindly love in which the individual comes close to the world of truth. There is a fable in China that Laozi, the famous sage, the obscure sage, The Naughty King was probably one of the most mysterious books ever written. This great mystic,…

…was probably one of the most mysterious books ever written. This great mystic, who actually left Confucius in a state of internal confusion, Laozi, was born as a servant in the estate of a wealthy man. He had no education in the ordinary sense of the…

…the more he does this and the more consistently he continues it, the more miserable he becomes. So I think Confucius perhaps and Laozi and Mencius were very wise in certain things. namely that the beginning of a good life probably is to realize that we…

…overtones, these wonderful galandagios, or decorations of life, which are everywhere present if we pause to consider. Confucius and Laozi in China both considered mysticism as the opportune pause. They recognized it as resulting from the sudden halting of…

…China they look back into the pre-Christian period, they look back into the great dynasties that gave the world Confucius and Laozi, and even further back into the long, mysterious shadows of the Shang dynasty, a dynasty which has only but slightly appeared…

…similar type of revelation and revising took place all through the world. In China, Confucius restored the ancient faith. Laozi restored the ancient mystical tradition of the Far East. Buddha reformed Brahmanism. Muhammad attempted a reformation of both…

…do a lot of things, and in doing them, we help to make duty what it really is. Duty is also the most common thing. Laozi, the Chinese philosopher, was a child of a gardener on the estate of a great Mandarin. He had no advantages and no education. But…

…his truth was written for eternal time. One thing that Confucius didn't understand was Taoism. he was never able to understand Laozi, his contemporary but slightly elder man. To him, Laozi was like a dragon rising in the sky. He was something unbelievably…

…that Confucius didn't understand was Taoism. he was never able to understand Laozi, his contemporary but slightly elder man. To him, Laozi was like a dragon rising in the sky. He was something unbelievably mysterious, a strange man who was born a slave…

…in the experimentation concerning the mental life of man, we begin to recognize some of the principles that were enunciated by Laozi. In this same generation, also, the most formal and perhaps one of the most respected men who ever lived, the philosopher…

…who had acquired through Taoism the same secret knowledge of magical art that had once seen from India. There is no doubt that Laozi was in a position as librarian of the two to be in comparatively close contact with the migration of sacred writings from…

…left an indelible mark upon the culture of his own time and the area in which he lived. China received Confucius and Laozi, who were contemporaries, although Laozi was the elder man. During the very lifetime of these men, India received Buddha, another of…

…the culture of his own time and the area in which he lived. China received Confucius and Laozi, who were contemporaries, although Laozi was the elder man. During the very lifetime of these men, India received Buddha, another of the great teachers of the…

…very structure did not permit it to become much involved in any religious or abstract formula. But Taoism, the teaching of Laozi, at about the beginning of the Christian era moved from a philosophical to a theological foundation, and we find a tremendous…

…is itself eternal. That causation is both a motion and a substance, existing forever. This is almost identically the statement of Laozi in describing the nature of Tao. And this was the same doctrine which at the beginning of the first century took…

…rise of China? What do we know of the great classical Chinese civilization that must have long preceded Confucius and Laozi? Nothing. We only pick up China misgoverned and badly managed. exploited and corrupted, and gradually falling apart under a succession…

…to form clouds ancient man watched these things and with his own quiet wisdom he knew them well the chinese philosopher Laozi tells us in absolutely perfect modern term, the entire phenomena of clouds, rainfall, and so on. These things were known, although…

…facts are a little difficult to historically date. But we can say this, Within 100 years, there flourished Confucius and Laozi in China, Buddha in India, the last of the Zoroasters in Persia, Pythagoras in Greece, and several lesser luminaries, including…

…culture was old. At the time of Buddha, we can say that Hinduism was decadent. At the time of Confucius and Laozi in China, we know that Chinese history was comparatively young and the culture comparatively strong. Therefore, we cannot say that these…

…friends of that period, with the possible exception of Laodicea, were not essentially mystics. They were essentially teachers. And even Laozi was a librarian of the libraries of the Chu, the highest intellectual position in China. These men were essentially…

…India remained essentially sound in its Buddhistic teaching for approximately 600 years. China enjoyed the great mystical revelation of Laozi until about the beginning of the Christian era, when mysticism in this field began to move into other manifestations.…

…Confucius regarded himself as a heartbroken failure because he was never able to break the tradition in which his life was patterned. Laozi walked out on the tradition completely. And riding on a green ox. Went out into the Gobi desert to die. As the…

…suspended to the degree that the primary impulse of consciousness would become discernible. This would be equivalent to the Tao of Laozi. Tao being the universal motion. allows the believed motion to be true consciousness, and that the universal motion is a…

…would like to sit down quietly under a tree somewhere and just feel the beauty of nature. This was the secret of Laozi, the great Chinese philosopher. He was of very humble origin. His father was merely a gardener. and the estates were abandoned. But…

…great art that was going to be captured on silk and also the great philosophy which was to be found in Mencius and Laozi and Confucius. All of these things were the result of the contemplation of nature. Instead of going to books where conflict is…

…ago when everything was superstitious. You can't depend upon them any longer. You can't depend upon what Aristotle said or Confucius or Laozi. In fact, you can't even understand what some of them said. Well, the fact remains that many of them said things…

…rise of China? What do we know of the great classical Chinese civilization that must have long preceded Confucius and Laozi? Nothing. We only pick up China, misgoverned and badly managed. exploited and corrupted, and gradually falling apart under a succession…

…The second great cultivating and civilizing force of China is the rise within their own nation of the mystic and transcendentalist Laozi. Laozi was the exact reverse of the formalities of psychology. He was a rebellion against the academic approach to life.…

…second great cultivating and civilizing force of China is the rise within their own nation of the mystic and transcendentalist Laozi. Laozi was the exact reverse of the formalities of psychology. He was a rebellion against the academic approach to life. He…

…deep wildness, in the passion to be wise, to be strong, to be good. There was still a tremendous adventure. When Thoreau to Laozi, A man's real purpose was to reach out with an experience of heart, soul, and mind and come into a benevolent degree of…

…transcendentalism, in their recognition of invisible mystical idealistic factors, they formed a kind of fraternity Buddhism probably realized that Laozi had derived much of his inspiration from the ancient manuscripts and books that had reached him from India.…

…from the ancient manuscripts and books that had reached him from India. As librarian of the great library of the Chu, Laozi had access to much of the wisdom literature of Asia. In any event, the Buddhist reaching China found that something similar…

…such as China, which is not in any way primitive, which had its own teachers, its own leaders, which cherished Confucius and Laozi, and it was able to contribute something to the great rise of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese art. All these elements meant…

…delightful figments. But then again, this was not necessarily unique. It isn't a hundred years since most people did not believe Laozi ever lived. And there are still authorities that insist that he is merely a composite of older beliefs. But the Chinese…

…of course are actually Christianity Buddhism and Hinduism and the philosophical idealism of China under the teachings of Confucius and Laozi. There are many others, however. All of these religions are united in one principle, namely the importance of personal…

…defensible. He must therefore give his life to prop up something that must naturally fall. In this thinking, if he can gain what Laozi calls this sense of Tao, this sense of movement, this dance of life it is that life is a magnificent sweeping motion.…

…expect to find understanding in the court of emperors, whether it be the emperor of the universe or anything else. This Laozi very beautifully points out in his strange mystic Chinese verses, man seeking for this which is alone is therefore never seeking…

…in us. And we have more or less come to the final conclusion that that which is recognized is not the reality. Another way where Laozi uses the word Tao to signify this totality of being. He says the Tao which can be defined is not the Tao. The self…

…dawning awareness through receptivity. On a practical level then, it would seem important to follow the doctrines or the ideas of Laozi, or perhaps certain of the teachings of Zen, in the search for the intensification of the experience factor. One reason…

…the East today, as in long ago, this consciousness problem presents itself in a variety of ways. Zen has one approach to it. Laozi, in his Taoist teachings, had another approach to it. But all of these approaches have to do with certain things. One of…

…sermon of Buddha seated at Sarnath along the side of the Indian Road, and in the wonderful works of Confucius and Laozi, that these have all struck certain identical chords, and that man had instinctively known that these were right, regardless of how…

…part of the Sermon on the Mount. It is found in the dialogues of Plato and in the mystic writings of Buddha. Laozi, the great Chinese sage, was a mystic. And all mystics are involved in the love mystery. Love mysteries which transcend all denominations,…

…of children, of them is the kingdom of God. And the same thought occurs in the writings of Chinese philosophers, especially Mencius and Laozi. The child heart is the thing we have lost. And we've lost with it the fairy tale and the legend. We've lost…

…of the Infinite, has always, this type of thing has always been close to the Eastern souls, whether it was the soul of Laozi or Buddha or the Vedantic saints or Patanjali, Whoever wrote of these things in the East writes of this strange experience in…

…It was a time of war, strife, sedition, corruption. Yet with it all, it produced two great persons who were contemporaries, Laozi and Confucius. There's a story that they met, but this may be apocryphal. We're not absolutely sure about it. Confucius…

…absolutely sure about it. Confucius admitted that he could never understand the strange, vague spirits that moved in the clouds behind Laozi. To him, Laozi was a mystery, unsolvable. On the other hand, Laozi, facing Confucius, found in him a level of…

…it. Confucius admitted that he could never understand the strange, vague spirits that moved in the clouds behind Laozi. To him, Laozi was a mystery, unsolvable. On the other hand, Laozi, facing Confucius, found in him a level of insights or understandings…

…strange, vague spirits that moved in the clouds behind Laozi. To him, Laozi was a mystery, unsolvable. On the other hand, Laozi, facing Confucius, found in him a level of insights or understandings which were incapable of gaining the insight that Lao Tzu…

…perform. We had the Hindus brought over into China certain concepts of duty. And these were taken in by Confucius, Manchus and Laozi. These duties are the duty of the family and the householder. The individual who has been raised and lovingly cared for in…

…For the description of this dragon is almost identical with the description given by Confucius of the mind of Laozi. It was this strange, incredible power monster. Something like the Chinese dragon, particularly the imperial five-clawed symbol of heaven.…

…declined. The same was true 600 years earlier. When those persons living approximately in the 6th century BC, Confucius, Laozi, Buddha, Zoroastros Betama, and Pythagoras, they formed the great challenging notes for their own people. and gradually these…

…facts are a little difficult to historically date. But we can say this. Within 100 years, there are flurries. Confucius and Laozi in China. Buddha in India. The last of the Zoroasters in Persia. Pythagoras in Greece. And several lesser luminaries, including…

…have certain possibilities. We have reason to believe from the ancient Chinese annals that Confucius, as a young man, did meet Laozi as the older teacher. The tradition, I would say, has reached a degree of being semi-historical. It is rather strongly…

…culture was old. At the time of Buddha, we can say that Hinduism was decadent. At the time of Confucius and Laozi in China, we know that Chinese history was comparatively young, and the culture comparatively strong. Therefore, we cannot say that these…

…instances been directly associated with religion as educational liberations. Our friends of that period, with the possible exception of Laozi, were not essentially mystics. They were essentially teachers. And even Laozi was a librarian of the libraries of the…

…friends of that period, with the possible exception of Laozi, were not essentially mystics. They were essentially teachers. And even Laozi was a librarian of the libraries of the Chu, the highest intellectual position in China. These men were essentially…

…a hold in Chinese consciousness that already their instruction largely completed the older patterns set forth by Confucius and Laozi. Thus, Buddhism the northern school of Buddhism, having established itself firmly in China, and having spread throughout China…

…to form clouds. Ancient man watched these things, and with his own quiet wisdom he knew them well. The Chinese philosopher Laozi tells us in absolutely perfect modern terms, the entire phenomena of clouds, rainfall, and so on. These things were known,…

…inevitably come to this rhythmic approach to life? can be explained perhaps best in terms of his own psychic organization. As Laozi, the Chinese philosopher, pointed out, life is motion. Good life is good motion. Poor life is poor motion. Motion in which…

…itself discordant, and reacts upon the internal rhythm of each person making up the social order. Thus, both Pythagoras and Laozi recognize the importance of the cultivation of motion, that this cultivation of movement has to do with the preservation of…

…fewer resources to meet them than we have ever known. It is therefore part of culture, particularly pointed out by Laozi and Confucius, that the intellectual, the practical man, the scientist, the philosopher, the warrior, all these should write poetry, not…