Chapter

 1 1|     Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma
 2 3|        Zen ritual. The name of Laotse, the founder of Taoism,
 3 3|       a well-known disciple of Laotse, who first at the gate of
 4 3|     making their hearers wise. Laotse himself, with his quaint
 5 3| subject-matter of the inquiry. Laotse himself spoke of it thus: "
 6 3|     from that of the other. In Laotse and his followers and in
 7 3| contemporary northern writers. Laotse lived five centuries before
 8 3|      long before the advent of Laotse, surnamed the Long-Eared.
 9 3|    luxuriance of free-thought. Laotse and Soshi (Chuangtse) were
10 3|      Sakyamuni, Confucius, and Laotse once stood before a jar
11 3|   Buddha called it bitter, and Laotse pronounced it sweet. ~The
12 3|        of the individual. This Laotse illustrates by his favourite
13 3|        Zen to the teachings of Laotse and the Taoist Conversationalists.
14 3|    commentaries on the Book of Laotse have been written by Zen
15 6|     but more magnificent. Said Laotse: "Heaven and earth are pitiless."