When all desires are extinguished, so is the dissatisfaction of not attaining these desires. What I have taken away from the teachings of Tao, is that one must be impartial and indifferent. Yet from contradiction, the truth emerges. Tao is taught to be a contradiction, and it is exemplified by contradiction. So does the sage ignore the abstraction of Tao since Tao is not substance? Or is substance an illusion that can only be observed through abstraction? The teachings of Tao are formulated through many contradictions, as Tao, through its teachings, is itself a contradiction.
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Yet the teachings of Tao say the sage ignores abstraction and accepts substance. It is difficult to summarize Tao concretely, as it has no shape.
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A full translation into English by the Taoist priest Hua-Ching Ni was published in 1979. The work is said to have survived in oral tradition. Its contents have no direct relation to later oral texts available in English.
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Parts of chapters 1, 2, 8 and 10 have been discovered among the Dunhuang manuscripts, recovered from the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang and preserved in the Taisho Tripitaka, manuscript 2139.Įstimated dates for the manuscript range from around the late 4th or early 5th century to the 6th century CE Northern Celestial Masters. An emperor ordered all copies to be destroyed in the 13th century after Taoists lost a debate with Buddhists. Įmperors of China occasionally organized debates between Buddhists and Taoists, and granted political favor to the winners. In 705, the Emperor Zhongzong of Tang prohibited distribution of the text. It has been suggested that the Taoist Wang Fu ( 王浮) may have originally compiled the Huahujing circa 300 CE. Some scholars believe it is a forgery because there are no historical references to it until the early 4th century CE. The Taoists are sometimes claimed to have developed the Huahujing to support one of their favourite arguments against the Buddhists: that after leaving China to the West, Laozi had travelled as far as India, where he had converted-or even become-the Buddha and thus Buddhism had been created as a somewhat distorted offshoot of Taoism. Traditionally, it is said that Laozi wrote it with the intention of converting Buddhists to Taoism, when they began to cross over from India.
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The work is honorifically known as the Taishang lingbao Laozi huahu miaojing ( 太上靈寶老子化胡妙經, "The Supreme Numinous Treasure's Sublime Classic on Laozi's Conversion of the Barbarians").