Part one is about the Tao (pronounced Dow). The Tao Te Ching is a short text divided into eighty-one chapters and two parts. Based on this, most modern scholars “would place the work in the late fourth or early third century” (1963, 90). Lau (1963, 90), “an older contemporary of Confucius.” But most scholars now believe that it is a compilation of different authors. Who wrote this small but profound book? Originally it was credited to a man named Lao Tzu, who was supposed to have been, explains D. Solomon (2002, 41), “has much in common with what we are calling naturalized spirituality.” It does not talk about gods, revelations, and miracles, but about harmonizing with the flow of nature. The Tao Te Ching is the most popular book outside the Bible, with over 100 translations into English alone.
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