A Chapter From The Hung Lieh Chuan : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous Next p. 74 A CHAPTER FROM THE HUNG LIEH CHUAN, BY HUAI-NAN TSZE, PRINCE OF KUANG LING. NOW TAO is that which covers Heaven and supports Earth; it is co-extensive with the four quarters, and spreads to the eight points; its height cannot be measured, nor its...
The Ta T'ung Ching : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous Next p. 68 THE TA T'UNG CHING.* That which is born in the state of Previous Existence, is born invisible--or formless; being extant in the state of Subsequent Existence, it is incorporeal. But that which is incorporeal has never really been extant; wherefore such...
Title Page : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Next TAOIST TEXTS ETHICAL POLITICAL AND SPECULATIVE BY FREDERIC HENRY BALFOUR "Editor Of The North-China Herald; Author Of Waifs & Strays From The Far East, The Divine Classic Of Nanhua, Idiomatic Dialogues In The Peking Colloquial, Etc." [London And Shanghai, 1884]...
The Ch'ing Ching Ching : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous Next p. 70 THE CH'ING CHING CHING. PREFATORY NOTE. FAR up a rocky precipice of the Horse-saddle Mountain in Chihli, within a hundred feet or so of its inaccessible peak, is perched a tiny temple called the Grotto of Ecstacy. There, under a sky of burning blue...
Untitled : Sacred-Texts Taoism Taoist Texts: Ethical, Political, and Speculative FREDERIC HENRY BALFOUR [Shanghai And London, 1884] {Reduced To HTML By Christopher M. Weimer, Sept. 2003} This is a small selection of varied texts from the Taoist Canon, including yet another translation of the Tao Te Ching...
The Kan Ying Pien : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous p. 103 THE KAN YING PIEN.* THE Supreme One, Lao Tsze, said:-- Happiness and evil do not come spontaneously; it is men who bring them upon themselves. The consequences of virtue and vice follow each just as the shadow follows the form. Now there are spirits...
The Tao Te Ching : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous Next p. 1 THE TAO T CHING. PREFATORY NOTE. IT is only after some years of hesitation that I have undertaken a new version of the Tao T Ching. The task has already been performed by Julien, Chalmers, Strauss, Plnckner, and Legge, most of whom, at any rate, are...
The Ch'ih Wen Tung : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous Next p. 69 THE CH'IH WEN TUNG. WHERE there is motion, that motion proceeds from immobility; where there is action, that action proceeds from inactivity. Where there is inactivity, the spirit reverts to its original; and when the spirit thus reverts, all things...
The Hsin Yin Ching : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous Next p. 66 THE HSIN YIN CHING. PREFATORY NOTE. THE following brief treatise is accorded a place in the recognised Taoist canon, though bearing marks of comparatively modern authorship. Its very title, ###, has a savour of Buddhism about it, and its allusions...
The Yin Fu Ching : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous Next p. 49 THE YIN FU CHING. PREFATORY NOTE. THIS treatise is one of the most interesting and important in the Taoist canon. Tradition ascribes its authorship to the mythical Emperor Huang Ti, or one of his six Ministers; but although it of course appeared...
The T'ai Hsi Ching : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous Next p. 63 THE T'AI HSI CHING. PREFATORY NOTE. THE following treatise, belonging though it does to a corrupted development of Taoism proper, may claim a place in the present series as being an amplification of the sixth chapter of the Tao T Ching. It teaches th...
The Su Shu : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous Next p. 95 THE SU SHU. PREFATORY NOTE. IT is related that one day, during the reign of Chuang Hsiang, third King of the Ts'in dynasty (B.C. 247-244), a youth named Chang Tsz-fang, afterwards Marquis of Lin, was wandering alone upon a river-bank. Suddenly his...
Introduction : Sacred-Texts Taoism Index Previous Next p. i INTRODUCTION.* IT occasionally happens that a sudden ray of clear and valuable light is thrown upon a long-disputed subject from a source the very existence of which was unsuspected, and the authority of which would certainly never have been allowed...