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Torch of Enlightenment

Dao Library

IT Knowledge Base

Volume One (Chapters 1-37)

DDJ - JXZ

道德經白話解說(江希張)

TCM

Lower Volume (Chapters 38-81)

DDJ - JXZ

Chapter 5: Why Dao Is Commonly Descended to This World

Torch of Enlightenment

New Dao relatives and people who are just beginning to get in touch with the Dao often ask what religion Dao is associated with. Some even have the idea that Dao itself is a new kind of religion. In our present society, with all its complexities and contradict...

大德真君紀念集

【白水老人題】(丁巳年)

Chapter 1: What is Dao?

Torch of Enlightenment

There is no doubt that we are among the most fortunate group of people in the world today. Why is this? Because we have effortlessly received Dao, the most precious gift in the universe. Dao is the ultimate truth that the saints and sages of the past searched ...

DDJ - JXZ

Chapter 3: The Meaning of Receiving Dao

Torch of Enlightenment

After "The Essence of Dao," and "The Relationship between Dao and Humankind," we can understand that Dao is the most precious gift in the universe, that it governs all matters, creates and nurtures all things. Everything in the universe has Dao. This includes ...

道學須知 (old)

Chapter 2: Dao and Human Beings

Torch of Enlightenment

Although we have begun to study the essence of Dao, we may still find that there are some aspects that are difficult to comprehend or relate to our own lives and paths of cultivation. This chapter will focus on the subject of the relationship between Dao and h...

Chapter 4: The Story of How Emperor Hwang Xuan Yuan Received Dao

Torch of Enlightenment

In the past, people who wanted to receive Dao had to forsake their families and their worldly pursuits in order to seek a master who could pass Dao on to them. For us today, receiving Dao is a much less difficult process. Rather than having to search for the e...

Chapter 6: The Preciousness of Dao

Torch of Enlightenment

The world is constantly changing. As time goes by, all people and societies seem to negate themselves and their values. In the present we negate the past. In the future, our present concerns will be negated. In the course of human history, many heroic figures ...

Chapter 7: The Meaning of Life, Birth, Aging, Sickness, and Death

Torch of Enlightenment

There was once a wise Chinese man named Zhang Liang, who said: Being human is difficult. A human is difficult to be. It is difficult to be human. Undoubtedly, playing our role as a human being is not easy. The journey of life is complex, unpredictable and su...

Chapter 8: The True Self and the False Self

Torch of Enlightenment

In the previous chapters so far we have come to understand that the soul is the owner and governing essence of the body. When body and soul combine, there is birth. When body and soul go their separate ways, death occurs. The body goes through the processes of...