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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Tao | |
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| "The way that can be spoken of is not the Eternal Way…" | |
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| "Point to beauty, then ugly must arise…" | |
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| "By not giving honors to the worthy…" | |
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| "The Tao is empty, meaning free…" | |
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| "Heaven and earth do not center on humans…" | |
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| "The valley spirit is deathless…" | |
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| "Heaven endures forever, earth lasts eternally…" | |
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| "Truly good people are like water…" | |
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| "Pouring more and more into a vessel?…" | |
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| "While carrying on your active life…" | |
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| "Thirty spokes converge on one hub…" | |
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| "Five colors blind our seeing…" | |
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| "Honor, disgrace-watch out! …" | |
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| "It cannot be seen, so we name it unclear…" | |
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| "Your beginningless ancestors, skilled at sounding…" | |
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| "Reach the pole of emptiness…" | |
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| "The best governor of your self, your world…" | |
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| "When the Way is forgotten…" | |
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| "Eliminate knowledge, discard reason…" | |
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| "Yes, no: not far apart…" | |
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| "True virtue is empty …" | |
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| "Supple bending, the whole unbroken …" | |
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| "Nature does not make long speeches …" | |
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| "A person on tiptoes cannot stand steady…" | |
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| "Prior to heaven, prior to earth…" | |
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| "The heavy anchors the light…" | |
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| "Good traveling leaves no trace…" | |
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| "To know the male and abide by the female…" | |
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| "Act on the world; try to control it…" | |
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| "One who uses the Way to assist the ruler …" | |
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| "As for weapons-they're instruments of ill omen …" | |
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| "The Way is timeless, nameless …" | |
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| "One who knows others is knowledgeable…" | |
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| "The Way flows easily, vast…" | |
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| "Hold up the Clear Mirror…" | |
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| "What is gathered in must first be scattered …" | |
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| "Tao everlasting docs not act…" | |
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| "High virtue isn't virtuous …" | |
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| "Originally these realized oneness…" | |
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| "The Tao moves by returning…" | |
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| "When the ablest students hear the Tao …" | |
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| "The Tao gives birth to one …" | |
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| "The softest, most pliable thing in the world …" | |
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| "Your reputation or your body…" | |
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| "Great perfection seems lacking…" | |
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| "When the world practices Tao…" | |
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| "Without going out your door…" | |
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| "Seek learning: increase daily…" | |
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| "The sage has no set mind but simply is …" | |
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| "People appear in birth-and-death …" | |
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| "Tao gives birch to them …" | |
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| "The world has an origin …" | |
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| "If I have a little wisdom to follow the great Way …" | |
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| "What is well planted is not uprooted …" | |
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| "One who fully embodies Rightness …" | |
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| "One who knows does not speak…" | |
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| "Govern a state by nothing special…" | |
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| "When the government is dull…" | |
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| "In governing people and serving heaven…" | |
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| "Governing a great state …" | |
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| "A great state is downstream …" | |
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| "The Way is the reservoir of rivers, the sanctuary of streams …" | |
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| "Do not-doing…" | |
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| "It's easy to balance while at rest and peaceful…" | |
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| "Ancestors, adept at practicing the Way…" | |
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| "Rivers and seas can be kings of the hundred valleys…" | |
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| "The whole world says my Way is great…" | |
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| "A good captain doesn't show off her might…" | |
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| "In engaging in warfare there is a saying…" | |
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| "My words are easy to understand …" | |
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| "Knowing not-knowing: transcendence …" | |
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| "When the people fear no power…" | |
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| "If you're brave in being daring, you'll be killed …" | |
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| "If people do not fear death …" | |
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| "Why are people hungry? …" | |
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| "At birth people are supple and soft…" | |
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| "The way of heaven is like drawing a bow …" | |
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| "In the whole world …" | |
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| "Making peace when there's been great resentment…" | |
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| "Let the state be small, with a small population…" | |
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| "Truthful speech is not florid …" | |
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| Appendix: Poems Inspired | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of First Lines | |
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| Index of Subjects | |
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| About the Author | |