# The Grand Archive — Tao Te Ching Living Codex
*Platform*: Tao of Life | *URL*: https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive

The Grand Archive is a living, bilingual scholarship corpus containing all 81 chapters of the Tao Te Ching.
Each chapter features authentic classical texts cross-referenced with Mawangdui Silk Texts, Guodian Bamboo Slips, and Wang Bi editions.

## Chapters 1 to 81
- [Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Tao can be told, (but) not (with) the unchanged way (of words).](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-1)
- [Chapter 2: Chapter 2: All that is under heaven considers beauty to be beautiful, ugly arises](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-2)
- [Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Not elevating talents, so people don't compete; not cherishing rare-fi](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-3)
- [Chapter 4: Chapter 4: Tao is void, but its content does not exhaust.](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-4)
- [Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Heaven and Earth are not kind, treating ten thousand things as grass d](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-5)
- [Chapter 6: Chapter 6: The god of grain does not die, (who is) called the grand female.](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-6)
- [Chapter 7: Chapter 7: Heaven is infinite, Earth is deathless. Heaven and Earth are infinite ](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-7)
- [Chapter 8: Chapter 8: The utmost goodness is like water.](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-8)
- [Chapter 9: Chapter 9: Hoard to overflow, should yield to moderation; hammer to sharpen, (the](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-9)
- [Chapter 10: Chapter 10: Can the soul embrace one, and does not separate? Can the aura be conce](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-10)
- [Chapter 11: Chapter 11: Thirty spokes to a hub,  create a void,  (is) used as a wheel. Clay mo](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-11)
- [Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Five colors blind; five tones deafen; five flavors cause tastelessness](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-12)
- [Chapter 13: Chapter 13: Moved by favor and humiliation, (is like) valuing a grave illness as t](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-13)
- [Chapter 14: Chapter 14: Look but cannot see, (is) called colorless; Listen but cannot hear, (i](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-14)
- [Chapter 15: Chapter 15: The ones who were good at Tao from the ancient times, (were) subtle an](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-15)
- [Chapter 16: Chapter 16: Reach the ultimate emptiness, stay the absolute peace; ten thousands t](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-16)
- [Chapter 17: Chapter 17: The upmost (ruler), (people) do not know of her existence; the next lo](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-17)
- [Chapter 18: Chapter 18: (When) the great Tao is discarded, benevolence and righteousness emerg](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-18)
- [Chapter 19: Chapter 19: Reject sainthood and abandon intelligence, people benefit a hundred ti](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-19)
- [Chapter 20: Chapter 20: Flattering and scolding, how much different between each other? Beauty](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-20)
- [Chapter 21: Chapter 21: The profundity of grand virtues, follow only the Tao.](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-21)
- [Chapter 22: Chapter 22: Submissive then prevail, bent hen straight, cave then full, stale and ](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-22)
- [Chapter 23: Chapter 23: Scarce in speaking (is the way of) nature. Gusting wind doesn't last o](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-23)
- [Chapter 24: Chapter 24: He who tiptoeing can’t stand, he who jumping can't march; he who seein](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-24)
- [Chapter 25: Chapter 25: There is this thing formed by chaos, born before the Heaven and Earth.](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-25)
- [Chapter 26: Chapter 26: Heavy is light’s root, still is restless’s master. Thus a person of no](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-26)
- [Chapter 27: Chapter 27: (Ones) good at sauntering, (leave) no trail; (ones) good at speaking, ](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-27)
- [Chapter 28: Chapter 28: Know the masculine, (but) uphold the feminine, be a creek to all that ](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-28)
- [Chapter 29: Chapter 29: Take all that is under heaven and act it, I predict its failure. All t](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-29)
- [Chapter 30: Chapter 30: He who aids a master of people, does not strong-arm all that is under ](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-30)
- [Chapter 31: Chapter 31: This thing called armed force,  is a vessel of inauspicious, things mi](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-31)
- [Chapter 32: Chapter 32: Tao is perpetual nameless, plain. Although small, all that is under he](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-32)
- [Chapter 33: Chapter 33: He who knows (other) people is intelligent, he who knows himself is wi](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-33)
- [Chapter 34: Chapter 34: The great Tao resembles confluence, it can be left and right. Ten thou](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-34)
- [Chapter 35: Chapter 35: (He who) holds the great appearance, all that is under heaven flow tow](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-35)
- [Chapter 36: Chapter 36: To close it, (one) must open it (first); to weaken it, (one) must stre](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-36)
- [Chapter 37: Chapter 37: Tao constantly does nothing and do everything. If marquises and kings ](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-37)
- [Chapter 38: Chapter 38: The upper virtues do not (chase) virtues, and thus have virtues; the l](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-38)
- [Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Those attained One in the past, Heaven attained One then be clear; Ear](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-39)
- [Chapter 40: Chapter 40: To and fro is Tao’s movement, weak is Tao’s way. The ten thousand thin](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-40)
- [Chapter 41: Chapter 41: When the upper-witted hear of Tao, （they) get diligent and act it; whe](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-41)
- [Chapter 42: Chapter 42: Tao creates One, One creates Two, Two creates Three, Three creates ten](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-42)
- [Chapter 43: Chapter 43: All that is under heaven’s softest, runs through all that’s under heav](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-43)
- [Chapter 44: Chapter 44: Which of fame or body is more close? Which of body or goods is more (i](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-44)
- [Chapter 45: Chapter 45: The great accomplished seems to be incomplete, but their use does not ](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-45)
- [Chapter 46: Chapter 46: (If) all that is under heaven has Tao, dismissed war horses plow field](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-46)
- [Chapter 47: Chapter 47: Not stepping out of door, (still) know all that is under heaven; not p](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-47)
- [Chapter 48: Chapter 48: The deed of study accumulates daily, the deed of Tao diminishes daily,](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-48)
- [Chapter 49: Chapter 49: A sage has no heart, takes the heart of the hundred surnames to be her](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-49)
- [Chapter 50: Chapter 50: Birth and death, those who live (a long life), three out of ten; those](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-50)
- [Chapter 51: Chapter 51: Tao gives them life, virtues nurture them, firmness shapes them, tende](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-51)
- [Chapter 52: Chapter 52: All that is under heaven has a beginning, to be the mother of all that](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-52)
- [Chapter 53: Chapter 53: If I were indeed knowledgeable, (I would) walk the grand path; (not) f](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-53)
- [Chapter 54: Chapter 54: Ones good at establishing (virtues) don't withdraw, ones good at holdi](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-54)
- [Chapter 55: Chapter 55: Having virtures of thick, is like a new-born infant. Poisonous insects](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-55)
- [Chapter 56: Chapter 56: He who knows don’t tell, he who tells don’t know. Block the hole, clos](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-56)
- [Chapter 57: Chapter 57: Leverage righteousness to govern (a) country, leverage deceit to use m](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-57)
- [Chapter 58: Chapter 58: (When) the governance is lenient, the people is simple; (When) the gov](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-58)
- [Chapter 59: Chapter 59: Governing people and serving Heaven, are like nothing more than econom](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-59)
- [Chapter 60: Chapter 60: Governing a big country, is like cooking a small fish, follow Tao to l](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-60)
- [Chapter 61: Chapter 61: A big country is the downstream, (it is) all that is under heaven’s fe](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-61)
- [Chapter 62: Chapter 62: Tao, master of ten thousand things, kind one’s precious, unkind one’s ](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-62)
- [Chapter 63: Chapter 63: Do the not doing, act the not acting, taste the not tasting. Big (grow](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-63)
- [Chapter 64: Chapter 64: The stability is easy to keep, the pre-aggravation is easy to plot (ag](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-64)
- [Chapter 65: Chapter 65: Ancient ones who were good at acting Tao, didn’t act (it) to smarten p](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-65)
- [Chapter 66: Chapter 66: River and sea for a reason become a hundred valleys’ king, is that the](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-66)
- [Chapter 67: Chapter 67: Under heaven all consider my 'Tao' to be grand, seemingly unlike (anyt](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-67)
- [Chapter 68: Chapter 68: Ones good at leading troops, are not warlike; ones good at fighting, a](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-68)
- [Chapter 69: Chapter 69: In leading troops there is a saying: 'I dare not take offensive, but t](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-69)
- [Chapter 70: Chapter 70: My words are easy to know, quite easy to act. But all that is under he](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-70)
- [Chapter 71: Chapter 71: Knowing the unknowingness, is wise; not knowing the knowingness, is si](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-71)
- [Chapter 72: Chapter 72: (When) people fear no authority, the great authority arrives. Not appr](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-72)
- [Chapter 73: Chapter 73: Valor on daring leads to death, valor on not daring leads to living.Th](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-73)
- [Chapter 74: Chapter 74: People do not fear death, why use death to terrify them? If people do ](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-74)
- [Chapter 75: Chapter 75: People’s starvation, for the (one on) top eats tax much, causing famin](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-75)
- [Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Human (body) lives being soft, it dies being hard. Plants live being s](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-76)
- [Chapter 77: Chapter 77: Tao of Heaven, isn't it like a bow? It lowers when the bowstring is pu](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-77)
- [Chapter 78: Chapter 78: There is nothing under heaven softer than water, yet none can penetrat](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-78)
- [Chapter 79: Chapter 79: Reconciling great resentment, there will always be some resentment lef](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-79)
- [Chapter 80: Chapter 80: Make a country smaller, and its people independent. Own various appara](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-80)
- [Chapter 81: Chapter 81: True words are not pleasing, pleasing words are mostly not true. Those](https://tao-of-life-806821250140.us-west1.run.app/zh-hant/thegrandarchive/chapter-81)